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a. Sound-level meter
b. Transducer
d. Sound analyzer
a. Noy
b. Sone
c. dB
d. phone
a. Resonant frequency
b. Natural frequency
c. Center frequency
d. Normal frequency
a. Flanking transmission
b. Refraction
c. Reflection
d. Reverberation
a. Hearing loss
b. Sensation level
c. Hearing level
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
a. 300 m/s
b. 330 m/s
c. 1130 m/s
d. 344 m/s
10. What is the expected critical frequency for a 120 mm thick brick wall?
Assume a longitudinal wave velocity in brick of 2350 m/s and that the
velocity of sound in air is 330 m/s.
a. 114.5 Hz
b. 214.5 Hz
c. 314.5 Hz
d. 414.5 Hz
11. The sound power level of a certain jet plane flying at a height of 1km is
160 dB (re10-12W). Find the maximum sound pressure level on the ground
directly below the flight path assuming that the aircraft radiates sound
equally in all directions.
a. 59.1 dB
b. 69.1 dB
c. 79.1 dB
d. 89.1 dB
13. Which type of microphone operates on the principle that the electrical
resistance of carbon granules varies as the pressure on the granules vary?
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Carbon
d. Ribbon-type
a. 1 Hz
b. 10 Hz
c. 100 Hz
d. 1000 Hz
a. Echo
b. Reverberation
c. Pure sound
d. Intelligible sound
a. Dolby
b. dBa
c. dBx
d. dBk
18. What is the sound energy per unit area at right angles to the propagation
direction per unit time?
a. Loudness
b. Coherence
c. Sound pressure
d. Sound intensity
a. Sone
b. Decibel
c. Mel
d. Phon
a. Sound pressure
b. Loudness
c. Sound intensity
d. Pressure variation
a. Sone
b. Phon
c. Decibel
d. Mel
a. Phon
b. Decibel
c. Pascal
d. Watts
a. Carbon
b. Dynamic
c. Crystal
d. Condenser
25. The exciter lamp in the optical sound part of a film projector draws 5 A at
10 V. How much power in watts is this light consuming?
a. 10 watts
b. 20 watts
c. 40 watts
d. 50 watts
26. Assume the speed of sound is 1,130 ft/s. What frequency has a
wavelength of 1 foot, 1.5 inches?
a. 500 Hz
b. 1000 Hz
c. 1500 Hz
d. 2000 Hz
27. The wire must bring 100 average watts to a 4 ohms loudspeaker must
safely carry what rms current?
a. 2 A
b. 4 A
c. 5 A
d. 6 A
28. A church has an internal volume of 90.05 ft3 (2550 m3). When it contains
customary sabine sof absorption (186 metric sabines), what will be its
reverberation time in seconds.
a. 2.0
b. 2.2
c. 2.5
d. 3.0
29. If the RMs sound pressure is 5lb/ft2, what is the sound presure level?
a. 7.6 dB
b. 108 dB
c. 88 dB
d. 10 dB
a. Ultrasonic
b. Supersonic
c. Subsonic
d. Transonic
a. 12.4 miles/sec
b. 5000 ft/sec
c. 186,000 ft/sec
d. 3141 ft/sec
32. What is the sound power from a motor car whose SPL at a distance of 7.5
m is 87 dB assuming that it radiates sound unifomly?
a. 0.15 W
b. 0.21 W
c. 0.24 W
d. 0.18 W
a. Compression
b. Wavelength
c. Period
d. Sound wave
a. 10 log I/Iref
b. 10 log P/Pref
c. 20 log I/Iref
d. 30 log P/Pref
a. 20 log P/ Pref
b. 30 log P/ Pref
c. 10 log P/ Pref
d. 20 log I/Iref
a. Frequency response
b. Field strength
c. Power density
d. Gain
a. Midrange
b. Harmonic
c. Reflection
d. Refraction
a. Diffraction
b. Rarefraction
c. Reflection
d. Refraction
39. When waves bend away from straight lines of travel, it is called _________.
a. Reflection
b. Diffraction
c. Rarefraction
d. Refraction
a. Echo time
b. Delay time
c. Reverberation time
d. Transient time
41. The intensity needed to produce an audible sound varies with __________.
a. Frequency
b. Noise
c. Amplitude
d. Tone
42. Sound that vibrates too high for the human ear to hear (over 20 kHz).
a. Subsonic
b. Transonic
c. Ultrasonic
d. Stereo
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Ribbon
d. Capacitor
44. A thin springy sheet of bakelite or metal that permits the voice coil in a
dynamic loudspeaker to move back and forth salong the core of its magnet.
a. Vibrator
b. Diaphragm
c. Hypex
d. Spider
a. 120 dB SPL
b. 57.78 dB SPL
c. 115.56 dB SPL
d. 41.58 dB SPL
46. The reverberation time of a 184.2 cubic meters broadcast studio is 0.84
sec. Find the absorption effect of the materials used in metric sabines.
a. 35.3
b. 10.96
c. 379.8
d. 109.6
a. Field effect
b. P.A. effect
c. Proximity effect
d. Reverberation
a. 20 kHz to 20 MHz
b. 0 Hz to 20 kHz
c. 300 Hz to 400 Hz
d. 20 Hz to 20 kHz
a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz
b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz
d. 10 Hz to 20 kHz
a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz
b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz
c. 10 kHz to 20 kHz
d. 20000 Hz to 30 kHz
Answer Key:
1. Sound-level meter
2. Noy
3. Noise rating curves
4. Natural frequency
5. Flanking transmission
6. Hearing level
7. 10 Hz
8. 40 Hz
9. 330 m/s
10. 214.5 Hz
11. 89.1 dB
12. Converts current variations into sound waves
13. Carbon
14. Bypassing high audio frequencies
15. 1000 Hz
16. Echo
17. Dolby
18. Sound intensity
19. Phon
20. Sound intensity
21. Mel
22. Decibel
23. Pitch and loudness
24. Dynamic
25. 50 watts
26. 1000 Hz
27. 5 A
28. 2.2
29. 7.6 dB
30. Supersonic
31. 5000 ft/sec
32. 0.18 W
33. Wavelength
34. 10 log I/Iref
35. 20 log P/ Pref
36. Frequency response
37. Reflection
38. Diffraction
39. Refraction
40. Reverberation time
41. Frequency
42. Ultrasonic
43. Crystal
44. Spider
45. 115.56 dB SPL
46. 35.3
47. Proximity effect
48. 20 Hz to 20 kHz
49. 10 Hz to 20 kHz
50. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz
a. 90
b. 65
c. 55-60
d. 80-85
a. 80-95
b. 85-90
c. 95-100
d. 100-105
a. 90
b. 80-85
c. 85-90
d. 90-95
a. Volume
b. Loudness
c. Sharpness
d. Strength
55. The loudness of a sound depends upon the energy of motion imparted to
________ molecules of the medium transmitting the sound.
a. Transmitting
b. Running
c. Moving
d. Vibrating
56. _________ is affected by the distance between the listener and the source
of the sound and its intensity varies inversely with the square of its distance.
a. Volume
b. Bass
c. Treble
d. Loudness
57. If the distance between the listener and the source of the sound is
doubled, the intensity is reduced to
a.
b. 1/3
c. 2/3
d. 1/4
58. If the distance between the listener and the source of the sound is
decreased to tye original amount, the intensity of the sound would be
a. 2 times as great
b. 3 times as great
c. 4 times as great
d. 5 times as great
a. 1000 mels
b. 500 mels
c. 2000 mels
d. 100 mels
a. 3 - 30 MHz
b. 25 8000 Hz
c. 4 40 Hz
d. 30 3000 Hz
61. For a music lover concert A is 440 Hz. If a musical note one octave
higher were played, it would be _______ that frequency.
a. One half
b. One-fourth
c. Double
d. Triple
62. In a 220 Hz, if a note was played one octave lower, it would be ______.
a. 22 Hz
b. 27.5 Hz
c. 440 Hz
d. 110 Hz
a. Harmonics
b. Good hearing
c. Fidelity
d. Octaves
a. Noise
b. Vibration
c. Distortion
d. Harmonics
a. Equalizer
b. Igniter
c. Exciter
d. Emulsifier
a. Amplifiers
b. Equalizers
c. Microprocessors
d. Exciters
67. Half construction and internal finishes affect the final sound quality
________.
a. poorly
b. mildly
c. significantly
d. badly
68. Positioning a loudspeaker near a wall can dramatically alter its frequency
response in two distinct ways namely;
69. The acoustics of most auditoria are very ________ when the room is full
compared to the empty condition.
a. Different
b. Similar
c. Good
d. Bad
a. Electro-acoustic
b. Microphone transducer
c. Microphone
d. Electric Microphone
c. Longevity
d. All of these
73. When the average absorption is greater than 0.2, __________ formula is
used to compute the actual reverberation time.
a. Sabine
c. Norris-Eyring
d. Notch
a. 348.03 cm/s
b. 980 cm/s
c. 980 m/s
d. 341.8 m/s
a. 1530.03 ft/sec
b. 1320 ft/sec
c. 1357.03 ft/sec
d. 1920.345 ft/sec
a. 16.5 m
b. 16.5 cm
c. 16.5 mm
d. 16.5 um
a. Octave
b. Interval
c. Harmonics
d. Masking
78. What is the increase in sound pressure level in dB, if the pressure is
doubled?
a. 2 dB
b. 3 dB
c. 6 dB
d. 4 dB
79. A term which is subjected but dependent mainly on frequency and also
affected by intensity,
a. Timbre
b. Quality
c. Frequency
d. Pitch
80. An effect that occurs in the ear where a louder sound can reduce or even
stop the nerve voltage generated by a weaker sound.
a. Piezoelectric effect
b. Skin effect
c. Lasing
d. Masking
a. Sabine
c. Norris-Eyring
d. Notch
a. Pitch
b. Frequency
c. Timbre
d. Loudness
83. Define as the time taken from the intensity of sound energy in the room
to drop to one millionth of its initial value.
a. Reverberation time
b. Transit time
c. Decaying time
d. Response time
84. __________ is the sound energy per unit area at right angles of the
propagation direction, per unit time.
a. Loudness
b. Coherence
c. Sound stress
d. Sound intensity
a. 601 Hz
b. 800 Hz
c. 1400 Hz
d. 1200 Hz
a. 0.63
b. 1.26
c. 0.315
d. 0.56 x 10-6
a. Sone
b. dB
c. Mel
d. Phon
a. Rarefaction
b. Refraction
c. Reflection
d. Flutter echo
a. Charles H. Townes
b. W.C Sabine
c. A. Javin
90. An aural sensation by pressure variations in the air which are always
produced by some source of vibrations.
a. Music
b. Sound
c. Disturbance
d. Speech
a. 10-12 W/cm2
b. 10-16 W/m2
c. 10-13 W/m2
d. 10-12 W/m2
a. 5.7 units
b. 4.7 units
c. 6.7 units
d. 3.7 units
a. Frequency
b. Timbre
c. Quality
d. Pitch
a. Sound pressure
b. Loudness
c. Sound intensity
d. Pressure variation
95. What is the sound pressure level (SPL) of a sound having a RMS pressure
of 200 N/m2?
a. 150 dB
b. 140 dB
c. 170 dB
d. 160 dB
a. Threshold of feeling
b. Threshold of pain
c. Threshold of sensation
d. Threshold of hearing
97. What is the intensity of the sound whose RMS pressure is 200 N/m2?
a. 96.9 W/m2
b. 97.9 W/m2
c. 95.9 W/m2
d. 94.9 W/m2
98. The unit of pitch.
a. sone
b. pitch
c. dB
d. Mel
99. What is the increase in sound pressure level in dB, if the intensity is
doubled?
a. 2 dB
b. 3 dB
c. 4 dB
d. 6 dB
a. 300 m/s
b. 330 mm/s
c. 330 m/s
d. 330 cm/s
Answer Key:
51. 65
52. 95-100
53. 80-85
54. Loudness
55. Vibrating
56. Loudness
57. 1/4
58. 4 times as great
59. 1000 mels
60. 25 8000 Hz
61. Double
62. 110 Hz
63. Octaves
64. Distortion
65. Exciter
66. Exciters
67. significantly
68. Hump and notch
69. Different
70. Microphone transducer
71. Diaphragm and generating element
72. All of these
73. Norris-Eyring
74. 341.8 m/s
75. 1357.03 ft/sec
76. 16.5 mm
77. Interval
78. 6 dB
79. Pitch
80. Masking
81. Stephen and Bate
82. Loudness
83. Reverberation time
84. Sound intensity
85. 1200 Hz
86. 0.63
87. Phon
88. Flutter echo
89. W.C Sabine
90. Sound
91. 10-12 W/m2
92. 4.7 units
93. Frequency
94. Sound intensity
95. 140 dB
96. Threshold of hearing
97. 97.9 W/m2
98. Mel
99. 3 dB
100. 300 m/s
Questions 101-150
101. What do you call the speed of sound in the study of acoustics?
a. Rhythm
b. Tempo
c. Pitch
d. Frequency
102. The term that describes the highness or lowness of a sound in the study
of acoustics is called a
a. Tempo
b. Pitch
c. Volume
d. Bass
a. Distance method
c. Impedance method
a. Rarefaction
b. Reflection
c. Refraction
d. Diffraction
a. Sound pressure
b. Sound intensity
c. Pressure variation
d. Loudness
a. Decibel
b. Phon
c. mel
d. Sone
a. coaxial speaker
b. woofer
c. tweeter
d. triaxial speaker
a. Frequency
b. Wavelength
c. Volume
d. Pitch
a. Harmonic
b. Fundamental
c. Midrange
d. 0 Hz
a. df/dp
b. dE/dP
c. dA/dP
d. dP/dA
a. its temperature
b. particle displacement
c. softness
d. source
112. _____ is the transmission of sound from one room to an adjacent room
thru common walls, floors, or ceilings.
a. Reverberation
b. Refraction
c. Flanking transmission
d. Reflection
a. 256 to 2048 Hz
b. 2048 to 4096 Hz
c. 512 to 2048 Hz
d. 16 to 64 Hz
114. Designates the sensation of low or high in the sense of the bass and
treble
a. Frequency
b. Intensity
c. Pitch
d. SPL
b. None of these
a. 120 dBSPL
b. 115.56 dBSPL
c. 41.58 dBSPL
d. 57.78 dBSPL
a. Oscilloscope
b. Phonoscope
c. Radioscope
d. Audioscope
a. Temperature
b. Loudness
c. Source of sound
119. How much bigger in storage capacity has digital video disk (DVD) have
over the conventional compact disk (CD)?
a. Around triple
b. Around 15 times
c. Around twice
d. Around 5 times
120. A sound intensity that could cause painful sensation in a human ear
a. Threshold of sense
b. Threshold of pain
c. Hearing threshold
d. Sensation intensity
a. 12 W
b. 0.12 W
c. 0.012 W
d. 1.2 W
a. Dolby
b. dBx
c. dBa
d. dBk
123. Which type of microphone operates on the principle that the electrical
resistance of carbon granules varies as the pressure on the granules vary?
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Carbon
d. Ribbon-type
a. Noy
b. Sone
c. dB
d. Mel
a. Echo time
b. Delay time
c. Reverberation time
d. Transient time
126. If the distance between the listener and the source of the sound is
doubled, the intensity is reduced to
a. 1/2
b. 1/3
c. 2/3
d. 1/4
128. An effect that occurs in the ear where a louder sound can reduce or
even stop the nerve voltage generated by a weaker sound
a. Piezoelectric effect
b. Doppler effect
c. Haas effect
d. Masking
129. When the average absorption is greater than 0.2, ____ formula is used
to compute the actual reverberation time.
a. Sabine
c. Norris-Eyring
d. Notch
a. Threshold of feeling
b. Threshold of pain
c. Threshold of sensation
d. Threshold of hearing
131. The ____ of a sound is a subjective effect which is a function of the ear
and brain.
a. Pitch
b. Frequency
c. Timbre
d. Loudness
a. Pitch
b. Frequency
c. Timbre
d. Loudness
a. 18.3 mm
b. 183mm
c. 250 mels
d. 1.86 mels
a. 1000 mels
b. 10000 mels
c. 250 mels
d. 800 mels
135. What is the velocity of sound in dry air for a temperature change of 45
degrees Celsius?
a. 249.19 m/s
b. 331.45 m/s
c. 357.73 m/s
d. 358.77 m/s
a. 13 Hz
b. 11 Hz
c. 15 Hz
d. 14 Hz
a. 0 sone
b. 1 sone
c. 0.5 sone
d. 16 sones
a. 83 phons
b. 160 phons
c. 90 phons
d. 86 phons
a. Echo
b. Reverberation
c. Pure sound
d. Jitter
b. Transducer
d. Sound analyzer
141. The term used for the deafness of higher frequencies due to old age
a. Ear deafness
b. Cortial deafness
c. Tinnitus
d. Presbycusis
a. 95-100 dB
b. 40-50 dB
c. 50-60 dB
d. 70-80 dB
a. Variable capacitance
b. Variable resistance
c. Variable inductance
d. Piezoelectric effect
a. Newtons
a. 100 milliwatts
b. 1 watt
c. 10 watts
d. 1 milliwatt
146. What is the increase in sound pressure level if the pressure is doubled?
a. Increase by 6 dB
b. Increase by 3 dB
c. Decrease by 6 dB
d. Decrease by 3 dB
a. 300- 3000 Hz
b. 20 Hz -20 kHz
c. 3 3 kHz
d. 40 -40 kHz
a. Microphone
b. Headphone
c. Headset
d. Speaker
b. Psophometric curve
a. 1 kHz
b. 300-3400 Hz
c. 100 Hz
d. 800 Hz
Answer Key:
101. Tempo
102. Pitch
103. Reverberation chamber method
104. Diffraction
105. Sound intensity
106. mel
107. woofer
108. Volume
109. Fundamental
110. dP/dA
111. particle displacement
112. Flanking transmission
113. 512 to 2048 Hz
14. Pitch
115. Converts current variations into sound waves
116. 115.56 dBSPL
117. Phonoscope
118. Properties of the medium
119. Around 15 times
120. Threshold of pain
121. 0.12 W
122. Dolby
123. Carbon
124. Noy
125. Reverberation time
126. 1/4
127. Hump and notch
128. Masking
129. Norris-Eyring
130. Threshold of hearing
131. Loudness
132. Pitch
133. 18.3 mm
134. 1000 mels
135. 357.73 m/s
136. 13 Hz
137. 1 sone
138. 90 phons
139. Echo
140. Sound level meter
141. Presbycusis
142. 95-100 dB
143. Variable resistance
144. Newtons per meter squared
145. 1 milliwatt
146. Increase by 6 dB
147. 20 Hz -20 kHz
148. Microphone