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The study of sound in the environment begins by thinking about the different ways that sound can travel from a source to a receiver. There are five important processes as shown in Fig. 15.1:
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Direct sound travels in a straight line path through the air from source to receiver. This is always the path of shortest length.
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Hartmann, W.M. (2013). Sound Environments. In: Principles of Musical Acoustics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1_15
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