History of acoustics | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-24

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustics


00:01:43 1 History
00:01:52 1.1 Early research in acoustics
00:05:11 1.2 Age of Enlightenment and onward
00:06:41 2 Fundamental concepts of acoustics
00:06:51 2.1 Definition
00:09:01 2.2 Wave propagation: pressure levels
00:09:39 2.3 Wave propagation: frequency
00:11:31 2.4 Transduction in acoustics
00:12:47 3 Acoustician
00:13:00 3.1 Education
00:14:09 4 Subdisciplines
00:14:29 4.1 Archaeoacoustics
00:14:47 4.2 Aeroacoustics
00:15:15 4.3 Acoustic signal processing
00:15:42 4.4 Architectural acoustics
00:16:09 4.5 Bioacoustics
00:16:28 4.6 Electroacoustics
00:16:53 4.7 Environmental noise and soundscapes
00:17:26 4.8 Musical acoustics
00:17:49 4.9 Psychoacoustics
00:18:03 4.10 Speech
00:18:29 4.11 Ultrasonics
00:18:54 4.12 Underwater acoustics
00:19:21 4.13 Vibration and dynamics
00:19:54 5 Professional societies
00:20:44 6 Academic journals
00:21:24 7 See also
00:21:33 8 Notes and references
00:21:42 9 Further reading
00:24:53 10 External links



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts



"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
- Socrates



SUMMARY
=======
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.
Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture. Accordingly, the science of acoustics spreads across many facets of human society—music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more. Likewise, animal species such as songbirds and frogs use sound and hearing as a key element of mating rituals or marking territories. Art, craft, science and technology have provoked one another to advance the whole, as in many other fields of knowledge. Robert Bruce Lindsay's 'Wheel of Acoustics' is a well accepted overview of the various fields in acoustics.The word "acoustic" is derived from the Greek word ἀκουστικός (akoustikos), meaning "of or for hearing, ready to hear" and that from ἀκουστός (akoustos), "heard, audible", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω (akouo), "I hear".The Latin synonym is "sonic", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics. Frequencies above and below the audible range are called "ultrasonic" and "infrasonic", respectively.