Wave and Ray Acoustics

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Wave and Ray Acoustics - Wave and Ray Acoustics

Just quickly we need to touch on this difference. The modal range obeys the rules of what we call wave acoustics. It is, pretty simply, the idea that waves stack up between room boundaries of comparable size, and make resonances. Also, when the sound encounters an obstacle of less than comparable size, it will simply 'flow' around it. Comparable in this case means equal to, or larger than half a wavelength.

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