vbid/9783030226763

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This textbook presents the fundamentals of engineering acoustics and examines in depth concepts within the domain that apply to reducing noise, measuring noise, and designing microphones and loudspeakers.� The book particularly emphasizes the physical principles used in designing miniature microphones.� These devices are used in billions of electronic products, most visibly, cell phones and hearing aids, and enable countless other applications.� Distinct from earlier books on this topic that take the view of the electrical engineer analyzing mechanical systems using electric circuit analogies.� This text uses Newtonian mechanics as a more appropriate paradigm for analyzing these mechanical systems and in so doing provides a more direct method of modeling. Written at a level appropriate for upper-division undergraduate courses, and enhanced with end-of-chapter problems and MatLab routines, the book is ideal as a core text for students interested in engineering acoustics in ME, EE, and physics programs, as well as a reference for engineers and technicians working in the huge global industry of miniature microphone design. �Typham this is the title: Physical Approach to Engineering Acoustics