Question Bank

Unit 1

1. What is meant by frequency best hearing sensitivity? What are the usual
audible frequency range and frequency range of human voice?
2. What are the major sources of noise in the urban environment? Explain
the non auditory effects of these on people.
3. Discuss various methods used in controlling industrial noise.
4. Derive an equation for finding out sound intensity at a distance r from
the source of sound of known sound power level.
5. Explain the term loudness. How does it vary with frequency? How this
variation is taken into account in the subject assessment?
6. Write a detailed note on noise standards and limits.
7. Explain various strategies used to control the industrial noise.
8. What are the auditory and non auditory Effects of noise
9. What do you understand by sound pressure dependent human
response? Derive the relationship between sound power level and
sound intensity level.
10. For the complex number Z1=1 +3i and Z2=3-7i, find the ratio Z1/Z2, and
Express the result in polar form.
11. Find the sum of two harmonic motion x1(t)=7cos(3t+1) and x2(t)=12sin
(3t+5) using Graphical as well as Trigonometric Relations.