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Environmental Acoustics MCQ

What is the scientific study of natural and man-made objects underwater?

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Correct Answer: Underwater acoustics

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What is the branch of psychophysics concerning sound?

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Correct Answer: Psychoacoustics

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What is the study of the physics of acoustic instruments?

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Correct Answer: Musical acoustics

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What is the study of the recording, manipulation, and reproduction of audio using electronics?

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Correct Answer: Electroacoustics

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What is the scientific study of the hearing and calls of animal calls?

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Correct Answer: Bioacoustics

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What is the science and engineering of achieving good sound within a building?

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Correct Answer: Architectural acoustics

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What is a cochlear implant?

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Correct Answer: A surgically implanted neuroprosthesis

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What is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible?

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Correct Answer: Hearing aid

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What is a method for reducing unwanted sound?

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Correct Answer: Active noise control

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What is the electronic manipulation of acoustic signals?

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Correct Answer: Acoustic signal processing

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What do people use to create sound?

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Correct Answer: Musical instrument

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What type of study is Aeroacoustics?

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Correct Answer: Is the study of noise generated by air movement

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What is the relationship between people and sound called?

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Correct Answer: Archaeoacoustics

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What is a hydrophone used for?

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Correct Answer: Recording or listening to underwater sound

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What is the simple definition of particle velocity?

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Correct Answer: The velocity of a particle in a medium as it transmits a wave

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What is the SI unit of particle velocity?

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Correct Answer: M/s

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What is another name for an electroacoustic transducer?

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Correct Answer: A loudspeaker

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What type of transducers convert electrical signals into sound?

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Correct Answer: Electroacoustic

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Electroacoustic transducers used explicitly for what?

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Correct Answer: Loudspeakers, microphones, particle velocity sensors, hydrophones and sonar projectors

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What is a transducer?

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Correct Answer: A device for converting one form of energy into another

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What is the SI unit of frequency?

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Correct Answer: Hertz(Hz)

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What is the name of a type of sound with a higher frequency than 20,000 Hz?

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Correct Answer: Ultrasound

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Loudness is the perception of what?

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Correct Answer: Sound pressure

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What is the minimum sound level of a pure tone that an average human ear with normal hearing can hear with no other sound present?

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Correct Answer: The absolute threshold of hearing

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What is the unit used to measure acoustic pressure?

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Correct Answer: Pascal

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What is the local pressure deviation from the ambient atmospheric pressure caused by a sound wave?

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Correct Answer: Acoustic pressure

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What is the process of refraction?

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Correct Answer: Redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another

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What is the change in direction of a wave front at an interface between two media called?

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Correct Answer: Reflection

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What is the bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture?

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Correct Answer: Diffraction

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What is a surface wave in physics?

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Correct Answer: A mechanical wave that propagates along the interface between differing media

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What are waves that are an example of transverse waves?

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Correct Answer: Water waves

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What is a transverse wave in physics?

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Correct Answer: A wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave's advance

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What are longitudinal waves?

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Correct Answer: Waves in which the vibration of the medium is parallel

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What does a fluid do under applied shear stress?

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Correct Answer: Deforms

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What is the result of an earthquake?

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Correct Answer: Seismic waves

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What can happen to the noise level during a storm?

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Correct Answer: Rise to 50 dB

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What does it mean to be judged to be unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to hearing?

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Correct Answer: Noise

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What type of communication is speech?

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Correct Answer: Vocal

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What is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ?

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Correct Answer: Hearing

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What is a set of strategies to reduce noise pollution or to reduce the impact of that noise?

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Correct Answer: Noise control or noise mitigation

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What is another name for noise control?

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Correct Answer: Noise mitigation

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What are typically concerned with the design, analysis and control of sound?

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Correct Answer: Acoustical engineers

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What is the branch of engineering that deals with sound and vibration?

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Correct Answer: Acoustical engineering

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Low status sound is sometimes referred to as what?

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Correct Answer: Infrasound

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What is the name of the sound waves with higher frequencies than the upper audible limit of human hearing?

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Correct Answer: Ultrasound

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What type of vibration travels as an acoustic wave?

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Correct Answer: Sound

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What is a transmission medium in the case of sound?

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Correct Answer: A gas, liquid, or solid

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What kind of wave is an oscillation of matter?

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Correct Answer: A mechanical wave

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What is the result of vibration?

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Correct Answer: Oscillations occur about an equilibrium point

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What does a mechanical wave transfer through a medium?

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Correct Answer: Energy

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What is the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids?

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Correct Answer: Acoustics

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