General Course Information
Course code | VTA137 (formerly VTA136 and VTA135), course description |
Examiner | Astrid Pieringer |
Lecturers | Astrid Pieringer, Jens Ahrens, Pontus Thorsson |
Classroom exercises | Leon Müller, Vincent Ratay, Chenya Ji |
Time and place | Lecture hall at Applied Acoustics (Sven Hultins gata 8a), schedule in the TA calendar |
Exam | Written exam (see also detailed info below) |
Course PM |
NB: You need a login name and a password for some of the documents provided for download on this page! Passwords are only available to our ATA course students and will be provided during the lecture.
Noteboard
2023-08-28 Warmly welcome to the course! As we are not so many registered students, I have moved the lectures and exercise classes to our lecture hall at Applied Acoustics (Sven Hultins gata 8a). See you there tomorrow for the first lecture starting at 13:15!
Exam
The date of the exam is announced in the Student Portal (NB: you have to register to take the exam. For more information, see Student Portal)
Tools you are allowed to bring to and use during the exam:
- Mathematical tables
- Electronic calculator without or cleared text memory
- List of equations “useful formulae” and “audio formulae”
(see additional downloads section) - All without any added notes!
Previous exams:
- Previous exam (2019/10)
- Previous exam (2019/10) solutions
- Previous exam (2021/10)
- Previous exam (2021/10) solutions
- Previous exam (2022/10)
- Previous exam (2022/10) solutions
- Previous exam (2023/01)
- Previous exam (2023/01) solutions
Course Literature
The literature will be provided in electronic form and is reference on the very last slide of each deck. Note that you will need a Chalmers IP to access it.
The literature is composed of excerpts from the following text books:
- M. Kleiner, “Acoustics and Audio Technology,” J. Ross Publishing, 2017
(accessible for online reading here and here) - H. Kuttruff, “Acoustics – An introduction“, CRC Press, 2006
- M. Möser, “Engineering Acoustics,” 2nd edition, Springer, 2009
- S. Garret, “Understanding Acoustics,” Springer, 2017
And the following lecture notes:
- Lecture notes on audio technology by Per Sjösten
We also use list of equations (“Useful formulae”), lecture notes, exercises and solutions provided on this website.
Mendel Kleiner: Errata to Acoustics and Audio Technology (2014-10-01)
Additional downloads
Aids
- Useful formulae
- Audio formulae (revisited)
- Kahoot questions and answers (available at the end of the lecture)
Lectures
- Lecture 1: Basic concepts: harmonic oscillations, levels
- Lecture 2: Basic concepts: acoustic variables, frequency domain representation
- Lecture 3: Basic concepts: wave equation and solutions
- Lecture 4: Basic concepts: wave equation and solutions cont’d, reflection and transmission
- Lecture 5: Hearing
- Lecture 6/7: Room acoustics
- Lecture 8: Room acoustics and human hearing, Acoustical planning of listening spaces
- Lecture 9a: Sound absorbers
- Lecture 9b: Wave propagation in solids. Sound generation and radiation
- Lecture 10: Sound insulation
- Lecture notes lec. 11-14
- Lecture 11: Audio signals
- Lecture 12: Microphones
- Lecture 13: Loudspeakers
- Lecture 14: Audio effects
Exercises
- Exercise 0: Problems
- Exercise 0: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 1: Problems
- Exercise 1: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 1: Solutions Home
- Exercise 2: Problems
- Exercise 2: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 2: Solutions Home
- Exercise 3: Problems
- Exercise 3: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 3: Solutions Home
- Exercise 4: Problems
- Exercise 4: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 4: Solutions Home
- Exercise 5: Problems
- Exercise 5: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 5: Solutions Home
- Exercise 6: Problems
- Exercise 6: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 6: Solutions Home
- Exercise 7: Problems
- Exercise 7: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 7: Solutions Home
- Exercise 8: Problems
- Exercise 8: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 8: Solutions Home
- Exercise 9: Problems
- Exercise 9: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 9: Solutions Home
- Exercise 10: Problems
- Exercise 10: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 10: Solutions Home
- Exercise 11: Problems
- Exercise 11: Solutions In-Class
- Exercise 11: Solutions Home