Homework 10 Responses: The Nature of Audio Research Questions - Gabriele 5.

(a) When different harmonic waveforms are added together, the human ear can hear the differences and perceive these differences as new what...?

1. Describe how sound waves travel, referring to particles, compression , and refraction.

2. (a) The height of the wave is called...?

2. (b) What property of sound does your answer to 2. (a) relate to?

3. We measure frequency in hertz (Hz) and Killohertz (KHz). What does frequency relate to in terms of a waveform?

4. (a) With reference to a vibrating string, what is the fundamental ?

4. (b) With reference to a vibrating string, what are harmonics?

Sound is a mechanical wave that results from the back and forth vibration of the particles of the medium through which the sound wave is moving. Compression happens when the air molecules squash together and refraction is when the molecules space out.

amplitude

the volume of sound

frequency is the number of peaks and troughs in a waveform

the main length?

harmonics are the amounts(?) in which the wave vibrates. So it will vibrate in 2 halves, 3 3rds, 4 quarters, 5 ths ect ect timbre

5. (b) What does this word (your answer to 5. (a)) mean? Timbre describes all of the aspects of a musical sound that do not have anything to do with the sound's pitch, loudness, or length. For example if a harmonica plays a note and then a flute plays that same not for the same length of time at the same volume, you can still easily distinguish between the two sounds, because a flute sounds different from an harmonica.

6. Name the 4 stages that 7. What is describe how the similarity sound is shared by converted both an ear into drum and a electrical microphone energy. diaphragm?

8. Give 3 9. If digital examples of sound is ways in represented which a by a series of sound voltages - on engineer can and off manipulate signals, or 1s waveforms, and 0s - how and the is it 10. (a) How is technical represented an analogue equipment in the waveform 10. (b) What that is used analogue represented is the sample to do so. domain? digitally? period?

10. (c) What is a sample rate of 48KHz?

10. (d) What is sampling bit depth?

10. (e) How does a higher bit depth improve digital audio?

11. What does DAC stand for and what does it do?

air pressure variations --> mechanical movement --> conversion If you have an into magnetic easier way of energy --> explaining it conversion please let me into electrical know energy

they're both flexible enough to move along with the change in pressure

can use filters to remove certain parts of a waveform amplifiers in order to boost the amplitude of a wave modulation can be applied with a low frequency oscillator

the time difference between two consecutive samples in a Sound

defines the dynamic range of the sound as it describes the amplitude of the waveform at each sample point 48,000 samples per second kind of get this

low bit depth offers very little in terms of dynamic resolution. Higher bit depth results in significantly improved waveform resolution.

Digital to analogue converter decodes digital info back into an analogue signal

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