Echo, Reverberation and Acoustics

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Echo, Reverberation and Acoustics: Overview

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Define Acoustics and list some of its applications.

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A person clapped his hands near a cliff and heard the echo after 4 s. The distance between the cliff and the person will be :

(Speed of sound is 346 m s-1

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If the velocity of sound in air is 340 m s-1 and x is the minimum distance between sound source and reflecting surface to get echo from general sound, then :

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What good acoustics mean?

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Walls of auditorium should be

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In question 93, if Suresh were standing unsymmetrically between parallel cliffs, the distance between two cliffs is

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Suresh standing symmetrically between two cliffs claps his hands and starts hearing a series of echoes at intervals of 1 second. If speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, the distance between the parallel cliffs must be

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Echo is produced due to

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The persistence of hearing for human beings is not more than

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_____  is used to split kidney stones into smaller pieces without invasive surgery.

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SONAR is an application of acoustics.

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Define Echelon effect?

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The branch of physics which deals with the study of production, transmissions and reception of sound is called?

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Write the medical application of acoustics?

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A reflection of sound, arriving at the listener in less than 0.1 s after the direct sound is called _____.

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A reflection of sound, arriving at the listener in less than 0.1 s after the direct sound is called _____.

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The minimum distance required to hear a distinct echo from the source of sound is _____ (17.2 / 20.1) metre.

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A man standing far from a hill, fires a gun and hears its echo after 4 s. Later he moves 320 m from his initial position away from the hill and fires the gun again and now he hears the echo after 6 s. Then the velocity of the sound in air is

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State and derive a condition for echo to be heard.  Explain how bats catch their prey.

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Define echo. An echo is heard after 3 s. Find the distance of reflecting surface from the source given that speed of sound is 342 m/s.