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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A spherical-wave source, including virtually all existing loudspeakers, retains only one quarter of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a rapid falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A cylindrical-wave retains half of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a modest falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A plane-wave source loses no sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source; in other words, the loudness is unchanged with increasing distance.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A spherical-wave source, including virtually all existing loudspeakers, retains only one quarter of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a rapid falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A cylindrical-wave retains half of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a modest falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A plane-wave source loses no sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source; in other words, the loudness is unchanged with increasing distance.</div></td></tr>
</table>Kjacobhttps://toonz.ca/bose/wiki/index.php?title=Physics&diff=2147&oldid=prevKjacob at 00:25, 29 August 20062006-08-29T00:25:15Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Spherical, Cylindrical, Plane-Wave Sources ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Spherical, Cylindrical, Plane-Wave Sources ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Spherical-wave.jpg|frame|center|A spherical-wave source, shaped like a typical loudspeaker, sends sound energy in all directions (three dimensions): out, to the sides, and up and down.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Spherical-wave.jpg|frame|center|A spherical-wave source, shaped like a typical loudspeaker, sends sound energy in all directions (three dimensions): out, to the sides, and up and down.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Cylindrical-wave.jpg|frame|center|A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Cylindrical-wave.jpg|frame|center|A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Plane-wave.jpg|frame|center|A plane-wave source, shaped like a sheet, radiates sound in only one dimensions: out, but not to the sides, or up and down.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Plane-wave.jpg|frame|center|A plane-wave source, shaped like a sheet, radiates sound in only one dimensions: out, but not to the sides, or up and down.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the different shaped waves produced by the three different source types, waves from spherical, cylindrical, and plane-wave sources also differ in the rate at which sound diminishes with distance from a source.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the different shaped waves produced by the three different source types, waves from spherical, cylindrical, and plane-wave sources also differ in the rate at which sound diminishes with distance from a source.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- </del>Spherical waves retain only one-fourth of their sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. For example, if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be only 25 units at 20 feet, about 6 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this as a dramatic reduction in sound level with distance from the source. Conversely, if we approach a spherical-wave source that is at a comfortable volume level, it soon reaches a level that is uncomfortably loud. It is this fundamental property that makes spherical-wave sources unsuitable for the challenge of creating sound that can serve both the musician and the audience at the same time without being too loud or soft for either.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* </ins>Spherical waves retain only one-fourth of their sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. For example, if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be only 25 units at 20 feet, about 6 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this as a dramatic reduction in sound level with distance from the source. Conversely, if we approach a spherical-wave source that is at a comfortable volume level, it soon reaches a level that is uncomfortably loud. It is this fundamental property that makes spherical-wave sources unsuitable for the challenge of creating sound that can serve both the musician and the audience at the same time without being too loud or soft for either.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- </del>Cylindrical waves do not lose intensity with distance as fast as spherical waves. They lose only half their intensity with each doubling of distance. Thus if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet, it will be 50 units at 20 feet, 25 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this reduction of level with distance as modest in comparison with the spherical-wave source. With such a source, if we set the correct level in the audience and then move closer, we hear the level as increasing only modestly. In fact, you can walk right up next to a cylindrical-wave source and never have the feeling that it is too loud. These properties will turn out to be of major importance to the problems of amplified music.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* </ins>Cylindrical waves do not lose intensity with distance as fast as spherical waves. They lose only half their intensity with each doubling of distance. Thus if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet, it will be 50 units at 20 feet, 25 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this reduction of level with distance as modest in comparison with the spherical-wave source. With such a source, if we set the correct level in the audience and then move closer, we hear the level as increasing only modestly. In fact, you can walk right up next to a cylindrical-wave source and never have the feeling that it is too loud. These properties will turn out to be of major importance to the problems of amplified music.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- </del>Plane waves theoretically lose no sound intensity with distance. Thus if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be still be 100 units at 20 feet, 100 units at forty feet, and so on. From this perspective, plane waves would be ideal for music performance because musicians and audience would get the same sound level.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* </ins>Plane waves theoretically lose no sound intensity with distance. Thus if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be still be 100 units at 20 feet, 100 units at forty feet, and so on. From this perspective, plane waves would be ideal for music performance because musicians and audience would get the same sound level.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A spherical-wave source, including virtually all existing loudspeakers, retains only one quarter of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a rapid falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A cylindrical-wave retains half of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a modest falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A plane-wave source loses no sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source; in other words, the loudness is unchanged with increasing distance.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A spherical-wave source, including virtually all existing loudspeakers, retains only one quarter of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a rapid falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A cylindrical-wave retains half of its intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. This is perceived as a modest falloff of loudness with increasing distance. A plane-wave source loses no sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source; in other words, the loudness is unchanged with increasing distance.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Untitled2</del>.jpg|frame|center|A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cylindrical-wave</ins>.jpg|frame|center|A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.]]</div></td></tr>
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</table>SThttps://toonz.ca/bose/wiki/index.php?title=Physics&diff=2141&oldid=prevKjacob: /* Spherical, Cylindrical, Plane-wave Sources */2006-08-28T22:12:01Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Spherical, Cylindrical, Plane-wave Sources</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Untitled1.jpg|frame|center|A spherical-wave source, shaped like a typical loudspeaker, sends sound energy in all directions (three dimensions): out, to the sides, and up and down.]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:Untitled2.jpg|frame|center|A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Untitled1</del>.jpg|frame|center|A <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spherical</del>-wave source, shaped like a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">typical loudspeaker</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sends </del>sound <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">energy </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">all directions (three </del>dimensions<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>: out, to the sides, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>up and down.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Untitled3</ins>.jpg|frame|center|A <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">plane</ins>-wave source, shaped like a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sheet</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">radiates </ins>sound in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only one </ins>dimensions: out, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but not </ins>to the sides, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or </ins>up and down.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Figure x. A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the different shaped waves produced by the three different source types, waves from spherical, cylindrical, and plane-wave sources also differ in the rate at which sound diminishes with distance from a source.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the different shaped waves produced by the three different source types, waves from spherical, cylindrical, and plane-wave sources also differ in the rate at which sound diminishes with distance from a source.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>- Spherical waves retain only one-fourth of their sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. For example, if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be only 25 units at 20 feet, about 6 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this as a dramatic reduction in sound level with distance from the source. Conversely, if we approach a spherical-wave source that is at a comfortable volume level, it soon reaches a level that is uncomfortably loud. It is this fundamental property that makes spherical-wave sources unsuitable for the challenge of creating sound that can serve both the musician and the audience at the same time without being too loud or soft for either.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>- Spherical waves retain only one-fourth of their sound intensity with each doubling of distance from the source. For example, if the sound intensity is 100 units at 10 feet from the source, it will be only 25 units at 20 feet, about 6 units at forty feet, and so on. We hear this as a dramatic reduction in sound level with distance from the source. Conversely, if we approach a spherical-wave source that is at a comfortable volume level, it soon reaches a level that is uncomfortably loud. It is this fundamental property that makes spherical-wave sources unsuitable for the challenge of creating sound that can serve both the musician and the audience at the same time without being too loud or soft for either.</div></td></tr>
</table>Kjacobhttps://toonz.ca/bose/wiki/index.php?title=Physics&diff=2138&oldid=prevKjacob at 22:09, 28 August 20062006-08-28T22:09:15Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Most are familiar with the properties of one type of sound source – the spherical-wave source – because virtually every loudspeaker is an example of this type. But there are two other types: the cylindrical-wave source, and the plane-wave source. These sources are named for the shapes of the sound waves they produce, and each has significantly different properties:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- </del>A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* </ins>A spherical-wave source is shaped like a typical loudspeaker. Spherical sound waves expand in three dimensions – like an expanding sphere: out, left and right, and up and down.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* </ins>A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Figure x. A spherical-wave source, shaped like a typical loudspeaker, sends sound energy in all directions (three dimensions)</del>: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">out, to the sides, and up and down.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* A source capable of producing plane waves is itself planar, or sheet-like, in shape. To produce plane waves at musical frequencies the plane-wave source must be large, about six feet square (two meters square), or larger. Plane waves travel in only one direction, or dimension: out, but not to the sides or up and down.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- </del>A cylindrical-wave source is shaped like a line. To produce cylindrical waves at musical frequencies the source must be high, about six feet (two meters), or higher. Cylindrical waves expand in two dimensions only – out and to the sides but not up or down (assuming the source is oriented vertically, like a flagpole).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Figure x. A spherical-wave source, shaped like a typical loudspeaker, sends sound energy in all directions (three dimensions): out, to the sides, and up and down. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A cylindrical-wave source, shaped like a line, or pole, radiates sound in two dimensions: out and to the sides, but not up and down. The resulting radiation pattern is therefore wedge shaped.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A plane-wave source, shaped like a sheet, radiates sound in only one dimensions: out, but not to the sides, or up and down.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Figure x. A plane-wave source, shaped like a sheet, radiates sound in only one dimensions: out, but not to the sides, or up and down.</div></td></tr>
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