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Encyclopedia > Room acoustics

Room acoustics describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space. Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a longitudinal wave, and therefore is a mechanical wave. ...


The way that sound behaves in a room can be broken up into roughly four different frequency zones: FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ...

  • The first zone is below the frequency that has a wavelength of twice the longest length of the room. In this zone sound behaves very much like changes in static air pressure.
  • Above that zone, until the frequency is approximately 11,250(RT60/V)1/2, wavelengths are comparable to the dimensions of the room, and so room resonances dominate.
  • The third region which extends approximately 2 octaves is a transition to the fourth zone.
  • In the fourth zone, sounds behave like rays of light bouncing around the room.

The wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a wave pattern. ... This article is about resonance in physics. ... In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double its frequency. ...

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It has been suggested that Acoustic transmission be merged into this article or section. ... An anechoic room simulates a free field — a representation of a theoretical infinite space, in which there are no sound wave reflections (echoes). ... This article is about audio effect. ... Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). ...

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