BUILDING UTILITIES 3

What do you call the distance sound travels during each cycle of vibration?

• Wavelength

• Sound Absorption

• Sound Attenuation

• Sound Diffraction

What do you call the Acoustical phenomenon which causes sound wave to be bent or scattered around?

• Wavelength

• Sound Absorption

• Sound Attenuation

• Sound of Diffraction

What do you call the minimum sound pressure level that is capable of being detected by the human ear.

The reduction in the intensity or in the sound pressure level of sound which is transmitted from one point to another.

• Wavelength

• Sound Absorption

• Sound Attenuation

• Sound of Diffraction

What is the Unit of loudness level?

• Pitch

• Sound Intensity

• Sabin

• Phon & Sone

What is the science of sound, including the generation, transmission & effects of sound waves ?

• Acoustics

• Sound

• Noise

• Echo

What do you call the prolongation of sound caused by persistence of sound

             energy within a room for a certain period of time ?

• Decibel

• Reverberation

• Flutter Echo

• Echo

It is the SI unit of frequency in acoustics, and is equal to one cycle per second

• Decibel

• Transmission Loss

• Sabin

• Hertz

Who is the Founder of the Science of Architectural Acoustics

Boston Symphony Hall?

• Vilhelm Lassen Jordan

• Jorn Utzon

• Wallace Clement Sabine

• Ernst Chladni

What do you call the branch of acoustics that deals specifically with all sound in the sea?