Acoustics and Sound Production
(Multimedia Engineering)

Akustyka i realizacja dźwięku

Bachelor's - engineer

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⇑Acoustics and Sound Production at UJD

Field of studies: Multimedia Engineering

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

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Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve, Mourning Bride, Act I, scene 1.

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Sound

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage, "Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures given in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence. Many of Cage's works use sounds traditionally regarded as unmusical (radios not tuned to any particular station, for instance): he really did believe that the sound of a truck and the sounds made in a factory had just as much musical worth as the sounds made in a music school. There is also a suggestion expressed in the quote that in order to determine the artistic worth of something, it is necessary to examine the context in which it exists.

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Production

Part of the goods which are annually produced, and which are called wealth, is, strictly speaking, waste, because it consists of articles which ... either should not have been produced until other articles had already been produced in sufficient abundance, or should not have been produced at all. And some part of the population is employed in making goods which no man can make with happiness, or indeed without loss of self-respect, because he knows that they had much better not be made; and that his life is wasted in making them.

R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society (1920), pp. 37–38.

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