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The problem of sound decay in a trapezoidal room with a nonuniform distribution of wall absorption is considered. It is shown that the sound energy decay may be either anomalously slow, obeying the law ∼1/t, or fast, obeying an exponential law. It is found that the type of the decay law depends on the presence of stable ray trajectories in the room. Manifestations of stable ray trajectories in both laboratory and field experiments are demonstrated.
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Original Russian Text © N.G. Kanev, 2013, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2013, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 607–612.
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Kanev, N.G. Reverberation in a trapezoidal room. Acoust. Phys. 59, 559–564 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771013050102
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