Quiz 2 Study Guide

How to Study for Quiz 2

This quiz covers all six pages of the Acoustics 1 app.

Make sure you understand the following terms and concepts. “(p. 1)” means the information is discussed on page one of the app.

  • frequency, period, and wavelength: relationships between them (p. 1)
  • oscilloscope (p. 2)
  • the approximate frequency range of human hearing (p. 2)
  • Fourier analysis, Fast Fourier Transform (p. 3)
  • partial (p. 3)
  • spectrum (p. 3)
  • 2D spectrogram (p. 3)
  • fundamental frequency (p. 4)
  • timbre (p. 4)
  • harmonic partial (p. 4)
  • calculating harmonic partials above a fundamental (p. 4)
  • additive synthesis (p. 5)
  • inharmonic partial (p. 6)