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Physical Acoustics: Definition of quantities. Propagation of mechanical disturbances in an elastic medium. Sound pressure and particle velocity. The speed of sound. The wave equation.Sound intensity and sound energy density. Active and reactive intensity. Propagating and stationary sound fields. Psychoacoustics: Physiological and psychological mechanisms of sound perception by humans. The logarithmic scale of decibels (dB), elementary operations on quantities expressed in dB. Frequency weighting curves. Masking phenomena in time and in frequency. Audio compression algorithms based on psychoacoustic principles.Sound Propagation: Plane waves, spherical waves, standing waves. Sound reflection and absorption. Sound propagation outdoor.Room acoustics: reverberation, sound quality in concert halls and opera houses, ISO3382 acoustical parameters.Advanced methods for impulse response measurement. Digital Signal Processing applied to audio and acoustics. Fundamentals of spectral analysis and Fourier transform.Sampling of signals. The DFT and the FFT algorithms. Convolution. FIR and IIR filters, calculation of Inverse numerical filters.Active control of sound. Auralisation. Virtual acoustics and 3D audio. Electroacoustics and instrumentation for acoustic measurements: Acoustic transducers (microphones, loudspeakers). Devices for processing analog and digital acoustic signals: amplifiers, equalizers, reverbs, compressors, etc... Sound level meters, spectrum analysers, impulse response measurement systems. Virtual Instrumentation on PC and software for acoustical measurements, with practical experiments.Techniques for numerical simulation of sound propagation: Fundamental of finite element methods, boundary element methods, and ray tracing.

The recommended textbooks for an introduction to this topic are:P. Fausti: Acustica in Edilizia , Rockwool, Italy, Milan, 2005 (free download in PDF format)In Italian R. Spagnolo: Acustica: Fondamenti e applicazioni, UTET Università, 2015, ISBN: 9788860084460T. D. Rossing (ed.): Springer Handbook of Acoustics, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4939-0754-0L.E. Kinsler, A.R. Frey, A.B. Coppens, and J.V. Sanders: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Wiley & Sons, 2000 F. Fahy: Foundations of Engineering Acoustics, Academic Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780122476655 2ff7e9595c