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Acoustic Quiz

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Please email the completed test to: tom@irvinemail.org

You can answer the questions in either English or metric units as appropriate.

1. What is the dB level in air for pressure = 0.001 psi rms (6.9 Pa rms)?

2. What is the change in the dB level for “twice as loud?”

3. What is the waveform for a sound wave?

4. What is the speed of sound in aluminum?

5. A closed-open pipe is 1 meter long. What is the fundamental frequency?

6. What is the dB reduction for a doubling of distance in a free field?

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7. An acoustic test chamber that ideally has no echo is called what?

8. Acoustic test chamber that has maximum echo is called what?

9. A one octave increase in frequencies means that the higher frequency is how many
times the lower?

10. What octave spacing is commonly used in vibroacoustics?

11. What type of noise is commonly used as a sleep aid?

12. What weighting scale is commonly used for human hearing?

13. How is sound mitigate inside launch vehicle payload fairings?

14. What does DFAT stand for?

15. What is the main sound source in turboprop aircraft?

16. Supersonic blade tip velocities in turbofan engines create what kind of noise?

17. What is the dB reduction for reverberation time in rooms?

18. A Helmholtz resonator acts like what kind of mechanical system?

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19. What kind of resonance is side window buffeting in an automobile?

20. Outdoor sound waves tend to bounce along the ground under what temperature
condition?

21. What kind of shift is generated by a passing train’s horn if the pitch changes from a
higher to lower frequency?

22. A Boeing 737 is flying at Mach 0.78 at 25,000 ft. What is the expected pressure rms
on the aft external fuselage?

23. An aluminum plate is 18 in x 16 in x 0.063 in, with simply-supported boundary

conditions. What is the fundamental frequency?

24. What stress type is useful for a plate subjected to a uniform acoustic pressure?

25. What fatigue method is used for calculating the cumulative damage index for a
stress response PSD?