Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Acoustic impedance

Index Acoustic impedance

Acoustic impedance and specific acoustic impedance are measures of the opposition that a system presents to the acoustic flow resulting of an acoustic pressure applied to the system. [1]

34 relations: Absolute value, Acoustic attenuation, Acoustic ohm, Analytic signal, Bulk modulus, Complex number, Convolution, Density, Earthquake bomb, Electrical impedance, Fluid, Fourier transform, Hilbert transform, Imaginary unit, Impedance analogy, Intensive and extensive properties, International System of Units, Laplace transform, Linear time-invariant theory, Longitudinal wave, Newton's laws of motion, Particle displacement, Particle velocity, Positive and negative parts, Rayl, Room acoustics, Shear modulus, Solid, Sound pressure, Speed of sound, Transverse wave, Underwater acoustics, Volumetric flow rate, Wave equation.

Absolute value

In mathematics, the absolute value or modulus of a real number is the non-negative value of without regard to its sign.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Absolute value · See more »

Acoustic attenuation

Acoustic attenuation is a measure of the energy loss of sound propagation in media.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Acoustic attenuation · See more »

Acoustic ohm

The acoustic ohm is a unit of measurement of acoustic impedance, which is the ratio of acoustic pressure to acoustic volume flow.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Acoustic ohm · See more »

Analytic signal

In mathematics and signal processing, an analytic signal is a complex-valued function that has no negative frequency components.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Analytic signal · See more »

Bulk modulus

The bulk modulus (K or B) of a substance is a measure of how resistant to compressibility that substance is.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Bulk modulus · See more »

Complex number

A complex number is a number that can be expressed in the form, where and are real numbers, and is a solution of the equation.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Complex number · See more »

Convolution

In mathematics (and, in particular, functional analysis) convolution is a mathematical operation on two functions (f and g) to produce a third function, that is typically viewed as a modified version of one of the original functions, giving the integral of the pointwise multiplication of the two functions as a function of the amount that one of the original functions is translated.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Convolution · See more »

Density

The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Density · See more »

Earthquake bomb

The earthquake bomb, or seismic bomb, was a concept that was invented by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis early in World War II and subsequently developed and used during the war against strategic targets in Europe.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Earthquake bomb · See more »

Electrical impedance

Electrical impedance is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Electrical impedance · See more »

Fluid

In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Fluid · See more »

Fourier transform

The Fourier transform (FT) decomposes a function of time (a signal) into the frequencies that make it up, in a way similar to how a musical chord can be expressed as the frequencies (or pitches) of its constituent notes.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Fourier transform · See more »

Hilbert transform

In mathematics and in signal processing, the Hilbert transform is a specific linear operator that takes a function, u(t) of a real variable and produces another function of a real variable H(u)(t).

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Hilbert transform · See more »

Imaginary unit

The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number is a solution to the quadratic equation.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Imaginary unit · See more »

Impedance analogy

The impedance analogy is a method of representing a mechanical system by an analogous electrical system.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Impedance analogy · See more »

Intensive and extensive properties

Physical properties of materials and systems can often be categorized as being either intensive or extensive quantities, according to how the property changes when the size (or extent) of the system changes.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Intensive and extensive properties · See more »

International System of Units

The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and International System of Units · See more »

Laplace transform

In mathematics, the Laplace transform is an integral transform named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Laplace transform · See more »

Linear time-invariant theory

Linear time-invariant theory, commonly known as LTI system theory, comes from applied mathematics and has direct applications in NMR spectroscopy, seismology, circuits, signal processing, control theory, and other technical areas.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Linear time-invariant theory · See more »

Longitudinal wave

Longitudinal waves are waves in which the displacement of the medium is in the same direction as, or the opposite direction to, the direction of propagation of the wave.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Longitudinal wave · See more »

Newton's laws of motion

Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that, together, laid the foundation for classical mechanics.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Newton's laws of motion · See more »

Particle displacement

Particle displacement or displacement amplitude is a measurement of distance of the movement of a particle from its equilibrium position in a medium as it transmits a second wave.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Particle displacement · See more »

Particle velocity

Particle velocity is the velocity of a particle (real or imagined) in a medium as it transmits a wave.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Particle velocity · See more »

Positive and negative parts

In mathematics, the positive part of a real or extended real-valued function is defined by the formula Intuitively, the graph of f^+ is obtained by taking the graph of f, chopping off the part under the x-axis, and letting f^+ take the value zero there.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Positive and negative parts · See more »

Rayl

A Rayl, rayl or Rayleigh is one of two units of specific acoustic impedance or, equivalently, characteristic acoustic impedance; one an MKS unit, and the other a CGS unit.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Rayl · See more »

Room acoustics

Room acoustics describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Room acoustics · See more »

Shear modulus

In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain: where The derived SI unit of shear modulus is the pascal (Pa), although it is usually expressed in gigapascals (GPa) or in thousands of pounds per square inch (ksi).

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Shear modulus · See more »

Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Solid · See more »

Sound pressure

Sound pressure or acoustic pressure is the local pressure deviation from the ambient (average or equilibrium) atmospheric pressure, caused by a sound wave.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Sound pressure · See more »

Speed of sound

The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Speed of sound · See more »

Transverse wave

A transverse wave is a moving wave that consists of oscillations occurring perpendicular (right angled) to the direction of energy transfer (or the propagation of the wave).

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Transverse wave · See more »

Underwater acoustics

Underwater acoustics is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water and its boundaries.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Underwater acoustics · See more »

Volumetric flow rate

In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics and hydrometry, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, rate of fluid flow or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually represented by the symbol (sometimes). The SI unit is m3/s (cubic metres per second).

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Volumetric flow rate · See more »

Wave equation

The wave equation is an important second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves—as they occur in classical physics—such as mechanical waves (e.g. water waves, sound waves and seismic waves) or light waves.

New!!: Acoustic impedance and Wave equation · See more »

Redirects here:

Acoustic reactance, Acoustic resistance, Acoustical impedance, Characteristic acoustic impedance, Characteristic specific acoustic impedance, Impedance curve, Radiation impedance, Radiation impedence, Sound impedance, Specific acoustic impedance, Volume velocity.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_impedance

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »