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37 Cards in this Set
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Hertz |
A unit of frequency. |
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Frequency |
The number of cycles that go through a same cycle. |
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Echolocation |
To identify the intensity and length of the noise, and calculate the orientation and distance from the object. |
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Infrasound |
Low frequency. |
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Ultrasound |
High frequency. |
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Sound |
The result of contractions and expansions of air on the surrounding space. |
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Elasticity |
The attribute of a material to recover its extension and shape at the moment a force that deforms it stops falling upon it. |
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Acoustics |
The branch of physics concerned with the properties of sound. |
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Transducer |
Can transform a type of energy into another one. |
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Tuning Fork |
It is a voice and instrument regulator that consists of a steel sheet folded as a hook with a foot, and when it is hit, it presents 435 vibrations per secon |
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Compression |
When many molecules congregate in one place. |
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Rarefaction |
When many molecules scatter somewhere. |
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Cycle |
the complete sequence of a periodic vibration that goes from rarefaction to compression. |
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Period |
It is the period of time that happens in a cycle. |
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Sound wave frequency |
the number of cycles that go through a same point during a second. In other words, it is the number of cycles per second. |
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Wavelengh |
It is the distance that the sound goes over in a complete cycle of change in pressure and it is the physical measure of a cycle’s length. |
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Amplitude |
It is the distance between a balance point and the highest wave point. |
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Tone |
It is the subjective perception of frequency. There are high tones and low tones. Measured in hz. |
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Decibel |
It is the unit used to measure the intensity of a sound. |
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Absortion |
It is the process in which sound is absorbed by an object when crashing against it. |
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Reflection |
It is the quantity of acoustic energy that will change direction when it crashes against the edge of an object. |
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Refraction |
It is the change in direction of the sound wave due to a variation of the means of scattering. |
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Bitrate |
It is the transmission rate. It refers to the number of bits that is transmitted in a unit of time, usually kilobits per second. |
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Codecs |
It means coder-decoder. It is software that consists on an algorithm to compress and decompress video in real time. Its use doesn’t iinterfere with the playing speed. There are also codecs for audio files. |
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Wrappers |
It is a metafile format whose specification describes how different elements of data and metadata coexist in a computer file. |
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WAV |
It is a Microsoft/IBM audio file container format. It is the main format used on Windows systems for storing uncompressed, lossless audio. |
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AIFF |
Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data electronically. The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh and Silicon Graphics computers. |
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CDA |
It is a 44 byte virtual file generated by Microsoft Windows for each audio track on a standard format audio CD as defined by the Table of Contents |
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MP3 |
It is a size-compressed, lossy audio format. This means that it uses less disk space to store audio than uncompressed formats like WAV, but loses some of the original sound quality in doing so. |
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AAC |
It is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format. |
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MIDI |
is a compact, notes-based file format widely used for keyboard instruments. It stores how to play the music which MIDI keys are pressed, and their strength and duration. |
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Audacity |
It is a free, very capable Audio Editor software application for Windows, Macintosh and Linux/Unix systems. |
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Garage Band |
It is a software application for OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. |
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Monaural sound |
It is a single channel or track of sound created by one speaker and is also known as Monophonic sound or High-Fidelity sound. |
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Stereophonic sound |
It is two separate audio channels or tracks of sound reproduced by two speakers. Stereo sound provides a sense of directionality because different sounds can be heard from two directions. |
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Surround sound |
It is created by at least four and up to seven independent audio channels and speakers placed in front of and behind the listener. |
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Streaming |
It is the reproduction of audio and video files with no need to be downloaded to a device. It is played through fragments sent sequentially through a net, usually, the Internet. |