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2010-2011 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 557 - Fundamentals of Acoustics

3 credits
3 hours lecture supplemented by classroom demonstrations
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor Fundamentals of acoustics including vibration and wave propagation in solid and fluid media. Topics include: vibration and wave propagation in one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional media including lumped parameter systems, strings, bars, membranes, thin plates and fluids; mechanical and electrical equivalent circuit models,  normal modes, linearized wave equation and solutions, reflection, transmission, refraction and attenuation phenomena in fluids, production and reception of sound, basic properties of transducers and arrays. This course is dual-listed as ECE 490 in the undergraduate catalogue.