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Reverberation

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When someone speaks in a large empty room, speech intelligibility is rather poor, because the sound which is just emitted is mixed with the reverberating sound that was emitted a few tenths of a seconds (or even seconds) earlier. When someone strikes a bell or a similar lightly-damped mechanical system, a sound can be heard for many seconds because it takes rather a long time until the vibratory energy in the system is transferred into heat or radiated.

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  1. University of Cambridge, UK

    D. G. Crighton (Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and The Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

  2. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

    A. P. Dowling (Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Reader in Acoustics) & J. E. Ffowcs Williams (Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and The Rank Professor of Engineering (Acoustics)

  3. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    M. Heckl (Professor of the Institut für Technische Akustik)

  4. The Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK

    F. G. Leppington (Professor of Applied Mathematics, and Head of the Mathematics Department)

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Crighton, D.G., Dowling, A.P., Williams, J.E.F., Heckl, M., Leppington, F.G. (1992). Reverberation. In: Modern Methods in Analytical Acoustics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0399-8_22

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