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Acoustics: Sound Fields, Transducers and Vibration, 2nd Edition
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Acoustics: Sound Fields, Transducers and Vibration, 2nd Edition

by Leo Beranek, Tim Mellow
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
900 pages
29h 35m
English
Academic Press
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Part X: Acoustic elements

4.2. Acoustic mass (inertance)

A tube open at both ends and with rigid walls behaves as an acoustic mass if it is short enough so that the air in it moves as a whole without appreciable compression. In setting up the boundary condition, the assumption is made that the sound pressure at the open end opposite the source is nearly zero. This assumption would be true if it were not for the radiation impedance of the open end, which acts very much like a piston radiating into open air. However, this radiation impedance is small for a tube of small diameter and acts only to increase the apparent length of the tube slightly. Therefore, the radiation impedance will be added as a correction factor later.

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ISBN: 9780128152287