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Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience, and others. The Springer Handbook of Acoustics is an unparalleled modern handbook reflecting this richly interdisciplinary nature edited by one of the acknowledged masters in the field, Thomas Rossing. Researchers and students benefit from the comprehensive contents spanning: animal acoustics including infrasound and ultrasound, environmental noise control, music and human speech and singing, physiological and psychological acoustics, architectural acoustics, physical and engineering acoustics, signal processing, medical acoustics, and ocean acoustics. This handbook reviews the most important areas of acoustics, with emphasis on current research. The authors of the various chapters are all experts in their fields. Each chapter is richly illustrated with figures and tables. The latest research and applications are incorporated throughout, e.g. computer recognition and synthesis of speech, physiological acoustics, psychological acoustics, thermoacoustics, diagnostic imaging and therapeutic applications and acoustical oceanography. With a Foreword by Manfred R. Schroeder Key Topics Physical and Engineering Acoustics Signal Processing in Acoustics Physiological and Psychological Acoustics Architectural Acoustics Medical Acoustics Ocean Acoustics Environmental Noise Control Musical Acoustics, Human Speech and Singing Animal Acoustics (Infrasound and Ultrasound) Features Contains over 960 two-color illustrations. Includes over 80 comprehensive tables. Emphasizes physical concepts over extensive mathematical derivations. Delivers a wealth of up-to-date references. Parts and chapters with summaries, detailed index and fully searchable CD-ROM guarantee quick access to data and links to other sources. Audio and video files on CD-ROM.

Sound. --- Acoustical engineering. --- Acoustic engineering --- Sonic engineering --- Sonics --- Sound engineering --- Sound-waves --- Engineering --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Industrial applications --- Acoustics. --- Animal physiology. --- Engineering. --- Animal Physiology. --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Engineering, general. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Physiology --- Optics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Signal processing. --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Dynamics --- Light --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Physiology. --- Technology and Engineering. --- Signal, Speech and Image Processing . --- Sound --- Acoustical engineering --- Research. --- History.

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Many performing musicians, as well as instrument builders, are coming to realize the importance of understanding the science of musical instruments. This book explains how string instruments produce sound. It presents basic ideas in simple language, and it also translates some more sophisticated ideas in non-technical language. It should be of interest to performers, researchers, and instrument makers alike.

Music -- Acoustics and physics. --- Musical instruments -- Construction. --- Musical intervals and scales. --- Stringed instruments -- Acoustics. --- Stringed instruments --- Physics --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Acoustics & Sound --- Music Philosophy --- Acoustics --- Acoustics. --- Acoustics and physics. --- Musical acoustics --- Instruments, Stringed --- String instruments --- Physics. --- Music. --- Vibration. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Acoustical engineering. --- Engineering Acoustics. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Sound --- Monochord --- Musical instruments --- Acoustics in engineering. --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Statics --- Acoustic engineering --- Sonic engineering --- Sonics --- Sound engineering --- Sound-waves --- Engineering --- Industrial applications

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This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has enjoyed a satisfactory solution. This book attempts to demonstrate that both outcomes are ultimately attributable to the loss of early pan-Romance consonant gemination.This study is of interest not only to the language-specific field of historical Romance linguistics, but also to general historical

Romance languages --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Phonology, Historical. --- Phonology, Comparative. --- Voice.

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In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill -- even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, and to locals who frequented the beach, the Guadalupe spill became troubling only when those involved could no longer view the sight and smell of petroleum as normal. This book recounts how this change in perception finally took place after nearly four decades and what form the response took. Taking a sociological perspective, Thomas Beamish examines the organizational culture of the Unocal Corporation (whose oil fields produced the leakage), the interorganizational response of regulatory agencies, and local interpretations of the event. He applies notions of social organization, social stability, and social inertia to the kind of environmental degradation represented by the Guadalupe spill. More important, he uses the Guadalupe Dunes case as the basis for a broader study of environmental "blind spots." He argues that many of our most pressing pollution problems go unacknowledged because they do not cause large-scale social disruption or dramatic visible destruction of the sort that triggers responses. Finally, he develops a model of social accommodation that helps explain why human systems seem inclined to do nothing as trouble mounts.

Oil spills --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Pollution --- Public opinion --- Environmental aspects --- Public opinion. --- Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge (Calif.) --- Environmental conditions --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Oilspills --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Environmental disasters --- Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. --- Oil pollution of the sea --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology

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Computer software --- Software architecture --- Development. --- Reliability. --- Architecture, Software --- Computer software architecture --- Development of computer software --- Software development --- Architecture --- Design