David T. Bradley, Erica E. Ryherd, and Michelle C. Vigeant, Eds.
334 pp, Hardcover 2010
Descriptions, color images, and technical and acoustical data of 130 drama theatres from around the world, with an acoustics overview, glossary, and essays reflecting on the theatre design process.
This book was an important milestone in the development of the mathematical theory of acoustics and vibrations. Donkin was a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford and was one of Rayleigh's principal mentors during Rayleigh's postgraduate days as a Fellow at Cambridge. Donkin set out to write a comprehensive treatise on acoustics, but died at the time this first volume was completed. Rayleigh acknowledges Donkin's book in the preface to his Theory of Sound and states that he would not have needed to write his book if Donkin had lived to complete the work he set out to write. Many of the mathematical proofs in the Theory of Sound are taken from Donkin's book.
Presents Biot’s theory of porous media with applications to acoustic wave propagation, geophysics, seismology, soil mechanics, strength of porous materials, and viscoelasticity.
Harvey Fletcher, Jont B. Allen, Ed.
487 pp, Hardcover 1995 (originally published 1953)
Summary of Harvey Fletcher’s 33 years of acoustics work at Bell Labs. A new introduction, index, and complete bibliography of Fletcher’s work are important additions to this classic volume.
Producers - AJ.M. Houstma, T.D. Rossing and W.M. Wagenaars
A useful teaching adjunct for lectures or a course on hearing and auditory effects, and provides signals for teaching laboratories. This disc contains 39 sections demonstrating various characteristics of hearing. A text booklet is provided containing introductions and narrations of each topic and bibliographies for providing more detailed information. Produced in 1989
The first in this series of the Collected Works of Distinguished Acousticians is that of Isadore Rudnick (May 8, 1917--August 22, 1997.) The first disc in this three disc set contains reprints of Rudnick's papers from scientific journals. The second disc includes a montage of photographs of Rudnick with colleagues and family, Rudnick's prize winning film "The Unusual Properties of Liquid Helium," and a video of the Plenary session at the ASA's 100th meeting. The third disc is a video recording of the Memorial Session held at the 135th meeting of the ASA.
Samuel Temkin
515 pp, Hardcover 2001 (originally published 1981)
Treatment of acoustics as a branch of fluid mechanics. Main topics include propagation in uniform fluids at rest, transmission and reflection phenomena, attenuation and dispersion, and emission.
Three-tape set of videos containing 20-minute lectures by distinguished researchers presented at the joint ASA/ICA meeting in June 1998 covering the development of the field of Speech Communication. Lecturers include: G. Frank, K. N. Stevens, J. L. Flanagan, A.M. Liberman, L. A. Chistovich (presentation made by R. J. Porter, Jr.), K. S. Harris, P. Ladefoged, and V. Frokmin.
This book presents psychophysical data on vertebrate hearing obtained from the published literature. The data presented here are in the form of new figures original to this book, and tables giving the numerical values of all plotted points. It contains separate sections on the Lateral Line System (7 figures), Fish Hearing (62 figures), Amphibians and Reptiles (16 figures), Birds (63 figures), Mammals (over 115 figures), and Comparisons among Vertebrates (13 figures). In addition to data on hearing sensitivity, discrimination, and directional hearing, data are included on hearing development and infant hearing, aspects of echolocation, and the psycho physics of electrical stimulation of the auditory system. It contains a Topical Index for each section and also combined for all vertebrates, a Species Index containing all scientific and common animal >names with references to the kinds of data available for each, complete bibliographic references (placed on the text pages displaying the data derived from them, and as a combined Bibliography), a Journal List, and an Author Index. Introductions precede each section. A Comparative Section brings together selected data from different animal groups for comparison across all vertebrates.
C. B. Officer;
284 pp, Electronic Copy 2011 (originally published 1958)
The chief purpose of the book is to apply the general principles of compressional elastic wave theory in fluids to transmission in a liquid medium subject to solid and gaseous boundaries. The first chapter develops the usual general stress-strain relation for a three dimensional elastic medium and the resulting wave equation for the propagation of small disturbances from equilibrium. Chapter 2 discusses the general theory of the solution of the wave equation first in terms of rays and second in terms of normal modes. The next two chapters treat transmission in shallow and deep water, respectively, from the standpoints of both ray theory and normal mode solutions. Chapter 5 contains a treatment of a point source near a reflecting surface and other problems of reflection such as a corrugated boundary, a porous medium, three-layer reflectivity, etc. The final chapter discusses attenuation in the medium, including the usual viscosity and heat conduction mechanisms as well as diffraction and scattering effects. [Excerpted from book review, R. Bruce Lindsay, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 31, 1273 (1959)].
DVD containing demonstrations for use in teaching courses on speech acoustics, physiology, and instrumentation. Includes text booklet describing the demonstrations and bibliographies for additional information.