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- An Introduction & History of Acoustics
– an overview from the Acoustical Society web site.
- A Definition of Sound – from David Worrall's site at The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University.
- What is Sound? – from the Acoustics FAQ.
- Sound Waves – from the online Physics book.
- What
is Frequency? – from David Worrall's site at The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University.
- What is Pitch? – from the Acoustics FAQ.
- Types of Waves – from the online Physics book.
- What is Periodic Motion? – from David Worrall's site at The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University.
- What
is Intensity? – from David Worrall's site at The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University.
- What is Loudness? – from the Acoustics FAQ.
- How do we Measure Sound Intensity Levels? – from the Acoustics FAQ.
- What is a decibel? – from the Acoustics FAQ.
- Measuring Waves – from the online Physics book.
- Student Difficulties in Understanding Mechanical Waves – a research paper by Michael Wittmann, University of Maryland, College Park, Physics Education Research Group.
- Basic Acoustics
& Psychoacoustics – an introduction to the basics of sound science from Norma Welch's site at McGill University, Canada.
- What
is the Harmonic Series? – basics.
- A Tour Up
The Harmonic Series – a thorough introduction to this complex subject
in relation to its impact on tuning systems by David Canright of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA .
- Harmonic
Series Wheel – a description of the classic interactive that allows a user to create a composite tone from 16 different sound sources from the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.
- Physics
& Psychophysics of Music – from David Worrall's site at The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University.
- Careers in Acoustics
– from the Acoustical Society web site.
- The Acoustics
page – An index of Research Labs – Conferences – Associations – Journals
– Commerce – Psychoacoustics – Audiology – Other resources – Standards
– Miscellaneous – Newsgroups – Links – Software.
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