Everyone recalls their own experience at attempting to do away with interfering noise by trying to put a barrier between the source and one’s ear. One tries to escape a pneumatic hammer or a lawn mower behind the next house. Wenn hiking in a quite forest, for example, one quickly takes another path over the next hill, whenever a lumberjack is heard cutting into the stillness with his chain saw.
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Möser, M. (2009). Noise barriers. In: Engineering Acoustics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92723-5_10
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