CSD 212 Lecture Notes - Musical Tone, Spectrogram

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Communication Sci & Disorders
• Course: CSD 212
• Professor: Tamayo

Document Summary

Sound = vibrations transmitted thu elastic solid, liquid, or gas. Sinusoid = continuous, uniform wave w/ constant freq. Amt of time it takes to complete 1 cycle. When pr is in sec. and f is in hz. When pr is in milisec. and f is in hz. : dist. from max pos. peak to max. neg. peak. Root-mean-square: sq. rt. of mean over time of squared amp. Defined in terms of degrees of an angle. Decibel scale: log of ratio of 2 intensities.