Environmental Acoustics MCQ
1. What is the scientific study of natural and man-made objects underwater?
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Underwater acoustics
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2. What is the branch of psychophysics concerning sound?
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Psychoacoustics
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3. What is the study of the physics of acoustic instruments?
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Musical acoustics
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4. What is the study of the recording, manipulation, and reproduction of audio using electronics?
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Electroacoustics
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5. What is the scientific study of the hearing and calls of animal calls?
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Bioacoustics
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6. What is the science and engineering of achieving good sound within a building?
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Architectural acoustics
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7. What is a cochlear implant?
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A surgically implanted neuroprosthesis
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8. What is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible?
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Hearing aid
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9. What is a method for reducing unwanted sound?
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Active noise control
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10. What is the electronic manipulation of acoustic signals?
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Acoustic signal processing
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11. What do people use to create sound?
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Musical instrument
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12. What type of study is Aeroacoustics?
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Is the study of noise generated by air movement
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13. What is the relationship between people and sound called?
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Archaeoacoustics
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14. What is a hydrophone used for?
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Recording or listening to underwater sound
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15. What is the simple definition of particle velocity?
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The velocity of a particle in a medium as it transmits a wave
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16. What is the SI unit of particle velocity?
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17. What is another name for an electroacoustic transducer?
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A loudspeaker
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18. What type of transducers convert electrical signals into sound?
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Electroacoustic
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19. Electroacoustic transducers used explicitly for what?
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Loudspeakers, microphones, particle velocity sensors, hydrophones and sonar projectors
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20. What is a transducer?
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A device for converting one form of energy into another
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21. What is the SI unit of frequency?
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Hertz(Hz)
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22. What is the name of a type of sound with a higher frequency than 20,000 Hz?
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Ultrasound
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23. Loudness is the perception of what?
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Sound pressure
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24. 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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The absolute threshold of hearing
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25. What is the unit used to measure acoustic pressure?
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26. What is the local pressure deviation from the ambient atmospheric pressure caused by a sound wave?
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Acoustic pressure
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27. What is the process of refraction?
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Redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another
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28. What is the change in direction of a wave front at an interface between two media called?
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Reflection
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29. What is the bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture?
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Diffraction
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30. What is a surface wave in physics?
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A mechanical wave that propagates along the interface between differing media
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31. What are waves that are an example of transverse waves?
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Water waves
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32. What is a transverse wave in physics?
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A wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave's advance
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33. What are longitudinal waves?
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Waves in which the vibration of the medium is parallel
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34. What does a fluid do under applied shear stress?
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35. What is the result of an earthquake?
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Seismic waves
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36. What can happen to the noise level during a storm?
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Rise to 50 dB
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37. What does it mean to be judged to be unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to hearing?
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38. What type of communication is speech?
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39. What is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ?
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40. What is a set of strategies to reduce noise pollution or to reduce the impact of that noise?
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Noise control or noise mitigation
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41. What is another name for noise control?
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Noise mitigation
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42. What are typically concerned with the design, analysis and control of sound?
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Acoustical engineers
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43. What is the branch of engineering that deals with sound and vibration?
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Acoustical engineering
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44. Low status sound is sometimes referred to as what?
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Infrasound
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45. What is the name of the sound waves with higher frequencies than the upper audible limit of human hearing?
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Ultrasound
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46. What type of vibration travels as an acoustic wave?
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47. What is a transmission medium in the case of sound?
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A gas, liquid, or solid
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48. What kind of wave is an oscillation of matter?
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A mechanical wave
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49. What is the result of vibration?
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Oscillations occur about an equilibrium point
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50. What does a mechanical wave transfer through a medium?
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51. What is the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids?
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Acoustics
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