DISCUSSION

How can noise pollution happen? According to the National Geographic, noise pollution is
unseen danger. Noise pollution is considered to be any unwanted or disturbing sound that
affects the health and well-being of humans and other organisms [CITATION Nat19 \l 17417 ]
Sound level can be measured in decibels (dB) [ CITATION Set201 \l 17417 ] . The higher of
decibels, the louder the sound is produced [ CITATION Set201 \l 17417 ]. Therefore, in this
experiment we need to measure the level of noise at the selected study locations but because
of we do the experiment in ODL (online-distance learning) the data already given. Next, we
need to analyse data and interpret the results of the noise level experiment.

Based the raw data given in table 1, noise reading of location A and B in 40 minutes duration
with 1 minute interval were obtained. The table 2 illustrated only minimum and maximum
value at location A and B reading in 10 minutes. The minimum noise value for location A
was 55.2 dB while at location B was 110.3 dB higher than at location A. The maximum noise
value for location A was 63.1 dB while at location B was 121.6 dB higher than location A.
Next, we assumed based on result in table 2, the noise between location A and location B
happened either at outdoor noise or indoor noise.

After all raw data have been calculated, we tabulated the new table which is frequency table
for location A and location B to generate graph for cumulative frequency curve, frequency
trend and s-curve method. In frequency table, we need to determine the range of class name
and we use 0.5 as an interval between range value for each class. Then, from the range class
we obtain the frequency and total frequency. The total frequency at location A was 40 same
as at location B. The value from frequency of each name class, we can get the percentages of
frequency by using this formula:

frequency of each name class

Percentages od frequency = × 100
total frequency

Hence, we can get the cumulative frequency by adding percentages of frequency from first
range of name class until last range of name class (100%).

The cumulative frequency curve or s-curve was plotted by using value from the percentage of
cumulative frequency versus name class (dB). This graph also we use to obtain the L10 value
which it is to check the value we get exceed 10% value of noise level or bellow than that. By
using the formula from the result to find L10, at location A the value of L10 was 77.98 dB
while at location B was 129.17 dB. From the L10 value, we can get intersection on the s-
curve graph and obtain the percentages of cumulative frequency for both location A and B
were exceed 10% which was produced noise pollution. According to the article from
Healthlink BC, sound above 85 dB are harmful for hearing system which can cause or lead to
hearing loss [ CITATION Bil19 \l 17417 ]. Therefore, location A is 77.98 dB in 75 dB (average
decibels) produce noise such as vacuum cleaner, average radio while at location B is 129.17
dB in 120 -129 dB (average decibels) such as ports crowd, rock concert, loud symphony.
Hence, the possibility to get the hearing loss is at location B because location B produced the
loudness sound which is contribute to the pollution. location B categorized as outdoor noise
while location A is indoor noise.

The table 2 already gives the maximum and minimum value for both locations. Hence, we
can easily substitute into equation of L10 to obtain the intersection on the s-curve graph. The
result L10 for location A is 63.10 dB and location B is 121.5887 dB which is higher than
location A. In that case, we can say that in a short duration (10 minutes) can gives a huge
value of decibels and almost 100% near to the true value for the 40 minutes data. Therefore,
location B which is outdoor noise can cause for hearing loss while location A is indoor noise
also can affect hearing system if human hear in a long time.