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Absorption, Silencers, Room Acoustics, and Transmission Loss

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In studying acoustic phenomena in enclosures, it is necessary to distinguish between sound absorbing materials (i.e., materials which absorb some of the energy in an incident sound wave and reduce reflections) and materials which reduce the transmission of sound through the materials. Allied with the absorption of a room is its reverberation characteristics, i.e., the rate at which sound decays in the room.

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    John E. K. Foreman P.Eng. (Professor Emeritus)

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Foreman, J.E.K. (1990). Absorption, Silencers, Room Acoustics, and Transmission Loss. In: Sound Analysis and Noise Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6677-5_5

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