Advanced Engineering Acoustics MCQ

1. What does any positive number of dB mean?

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Correct Answer: Greater than the reference

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2. What does dB stand for?

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Correct Answer: Decibel

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3. What does 0 dB mean?

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Correct Answer: The same as the reference

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4. What is the relative sound pressure level (dB SPL)?

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Correct Answer: 20 x log (px/20uPa)

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5. What is the relative sound pressure level when the sound pressure is px = 60Pa?

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Correct Answer: 126 dB

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6. What is the term for expressing the intensity of sound Relative to the smallest intensity we can hear?

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Correct Answer: Relative sound intensity

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7. What is the biggest advantage of using a logarithmic scale to express sound intensity?

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Correct Answer: It is easier to compare different intensities

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8. Which of the following is true about the relationship between sound pressure level and intensity?

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Correct Answer: Intensity is proportional to sound pressure squared.

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9. Under what conditions is the sound pressure level measured?

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Correct Answer: Standardized conditions

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10. What is the unit for sound pressure?

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Correct Answer: Pa

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11. What is the absolute sound intensity?

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Correct Answer: A factor of one trillion difference in intensity between the quietest audible sound and the loudest bearable sound

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12. How big is the difference in intensity between the quietest and loudest audible sound?

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Correct Answer: A factor of one trillion

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13. What does intensity depend on?

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Correct Answer: The area and the duration in which the wave propagates.

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14. What is the formula for absolute sound intensity?

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Correct Answer: I = P / (4 * pi * r^2)

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15. What is the logarithm of 100?

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Correct Answer: 2

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16. What is the value of cos(theta)?

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Correct Answer: Zero

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17. What is the value of pi to the nearest tenth?

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Correct Answer: 3.1

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18. What is the circumference of a 3.14 radius pie?

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Correct Answer: 9.42

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19. What is a sinusoid?

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Correct Answer: A sinusoid is a curve that oscillates between a maximum and a minimum value, or vice versa.

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20. What is the cycle completed when?

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Correct Answer: It goes 360 degrees.

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21. What is the pressure at -30 degrees?

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Correct Answer: Negative pressure

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22. What is a negative pressure?

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Correct Answer: A decrease in atmospheric pressure

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23. What does the starting phase of a sine wave tell us?

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Correct Answer: Where the beginning of the sine wave is in degrees.

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24. What is the unit of wavelength?

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Correct Answer: Meter

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25. Wavelength is the unit of ___________?

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Correct Answer: Distance

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26. What determines the speed of sound wave propagation?

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Correct Answer: Characteristics of the medium

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27. What is the wavelength formula?

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Correct Answer: Wavelength = propagation speed/frequency

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28. What is the distance from one peak of the wave to the next adjacent peak called?

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Correct Answer: Wavelength

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29. What is the history of a single location?

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Correct Answer: The period

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30. What does a snapshot of a single time describe?

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Correct Answer: Various locations

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31. Whats the unit of period?

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Correct Answer: Time the sine wave takes to repeat itself in a second of time.

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32. The shorter the period, the _____ the _____?

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Correct Answer: Shorter, frequency

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33. Inverse relationship between frequency and wavelength is known as?

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Correct Answer: Wave velocity

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34. The longer the period, the _____ the frequency?

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Correct Answer: Longer

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35. What is the unit of period?

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Correct Answer: Seconds

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36. What is the formula for frequency?

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Correct Answer: F=1/p

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37. What is the equation for frequency?

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Correct Answer: F=1/p

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38. Special unit name that is used for frequency?

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Correct Answer: Hz

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39. What is a period?

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Correct Answer: The time to complete one cycle of the wave

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40. What does frequency measure?

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Correct Answer: The number of cycles that are completed in one second.

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41. How do sinusoids differ in 3 ways?

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Correct Answer: Frequency, amplitude, starting phase

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42. How do sinusoids differ in 2 ways?

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Correct Answer: Frequency, amplitude

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43. What is happening if you record at a single location?

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Correct Answer: Recording history and what is happening as a function of time

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44. What makes up a waveform?

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Correct Answer: Amplitude and time.

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45. What is the name for wave motion where the direction of vibration is parallel to the direction of wave propagation?

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Correct Answer: Longitudinal wave motion

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46. What is a medium?

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Correct Answer: The way that energy is carried.

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47. What is sound made up of?

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Correct Answer: Sound source and a medium

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48. What is energy?

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Correct Answer: The capacity to do work.

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49. What is wave propagation?

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Correct Answer: Movement of energy

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50. Do air molecules travel to carry sound energy?

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Correct Answer: No

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51. What propagates energy?

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Correct Answer: Waves

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52. What is an acoustic signal?

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Correct Answer: A sound

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53. What is the definition of rarefaction?

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Correct Answer: Low pressure; air molecules spread out.

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54. What causes condensation?

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Correct Answer: High pressure

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55. What is sound?

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Correct Answer: Oscillation of air pressure.

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56. What is the name for random noise that contains equal noise energy in any fixed width frequency band?

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Correct Answer: White noise

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57. What is Reverberation Time?

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Correct Answer: The time it takes for sound to decay by 60 decibels after the sound is stopped in the room.

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58. What is STC?

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Correct Answer: Sound Transmission Class

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59. What is Pink Noise?

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Correct Answer: Random noise that contains equal noise energy in each octave band and each one-third octave band.

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60. What is the L90?

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Correct Answer: The decibel level that is exceeded 90% of the time.

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61. What is one-third octave band?

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Correct Answer: A band of frequencies that are one-third of an octave apart

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62. What is an octave band?

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Correct Answer: A frequency band that is one octave wide

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63. What is the term used for an area where noise interferes with the normal activities and uses of the area?

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Correct Answer: Noise Sensitive Area

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64. What does a higher number in the noise reduction coefficient rating indicate?

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Correct Answer: More sound absorption

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65. What does NIC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Noise Isolation Class

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66. What does NC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Noise Criterion

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67. What is the purpose of a noise barrier?

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Correct Answer: To protect sensitive areas from unwanted noise

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68. What does NAC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Noise Abatement Criteria

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69. What is noise?

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Correct Answer: Any unwanted or undesirable sound

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70. What does LEQ (night) stand for?

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Correct Answer: Nighttime Equivalent Sound Level

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71. What does NEPA stand for?

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Correct Answer: National Environmental Policy Act

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72. What does LMIN stand for?

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Correct Answer: Minimum Sound Level

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73. What does LMAX stand for?

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Correct Answer: Maximum Sound Level

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74. What is masking sound?

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Correct Answer: Sound that is introduced into an environment to cover up an unwanted sound

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75. What is the Inverse Square Law?

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Correct Answer: The sound pressure varies inversely with the square of the distance from the source

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76. Reduction in sound level at a given location due to the insertion of a noise control device is known as ________?

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Correct Answer: Insertion Loss

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77. What is the IIC?

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Correct Answer: Impact Insulation Class

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78. What is the unit used to express the number of cycles per second of a periodic wave?

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Correct Answer: Hertz (Hz)

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79. What does Hz stand for?

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Correct Answer: Hertz

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80. What is a flanking path?

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Correct Answer: An indirect sound transmission path that bypasses the primary wall or other barrier

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81. What does FSTC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Field Sound Transmission Class

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82. What is FIIC?

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Correct Answer: Field Impact Insulation Class

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83. What does FHWA stand for?

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Correct Answer: Federal Highway Administration

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84. What does HVAC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

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85. What is a decibel?

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Correct Answer: A logarithmic unit of sound measurement

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86. What is a "dead" room?

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Correct Answer: A room that is not very reverberant.

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87. What is the main characteristic of a "dead" room?

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Correct Answer: It has a short reverberation time

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88. What is the acronym for Daytime Equivalent Sound Level?

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Correct Answer: Leq

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89. What is the unit of measurement for Daytime Equivalent Sound Level?

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Correct Answer: Decibels (dB)

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90. What is the penalty for nighttime levels?

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Correct Answer: 10 dB

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91. What is the characteristic of a mechanical system that gradually reduces the amplitude of vibration?

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Correct Answer: Damping

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92. What does the CNEL stand for?

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Correct Answer: Community Noise Equivalent Level

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93. What does CAC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Ceiling Attenuation Class

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94. What is the term for sounds from sources other than the sound source of interest?

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Correct Answer: Background sound

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95. What does the A in dBA stand for?

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Correct Answer: A-weighted

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96. What does A-weighted Sound Level measure?

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Correct Answer: Broadband sound spectrum

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97. What does ASTC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Apparent Sound Transmission Class

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98. What is Ambient Sound?

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Correct Answer: All sounds that exist in a particular area, from near and far, including the sound source of interest

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99. What is airborne sound?

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Correct Answer: Sound that arrives at the point of interest by transmission through air.

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100. What is the science of mechanical waves that deals with the generation, transmission, and effects of waves including vibration, sound and ultrasound called?

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Correct Answer: Acoustics

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101. What is an acoustic camera used for?

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Correct Answer: To identify and locate sound sources by visualizing the sound produced.

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102. What does Absorption Coefficient (a) indicate?

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Correct Answer: How much sound is absorbed by the material

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103. What is an accelerometer?

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Correct Answer: A transducer whose output is directly proportional to acceleration.

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