General Course Information
| Course code | VTA141, course description |
| Lecturers | Jens Ahrens |
| Assistant | – |
| Lecture hall | Lecture room at TA |
| Exam | Written exam (see also detailed info below) |
| Course PM |
Noteboard
2024-08-20
The course starts on Sep. 03. The lecture hall is located at Sven Hultins gata 8A. Get in touch with me to get access to the building.
Course Literature
The course literature will be available for download as the course progresses.
Electroacoustics equation sheet
Lectures
Exercises
- 1 Electrical Circuits
- 1 Electrical Circuits Solutions
- 2 Analogies
- 2 Analogies Solutions
- 3 Radiation
- 3 Radiation Solutions
- 4 Loudspeakers
- 4 Loudspeakers Solutions
- 5 Microphones
- 5 Microphones Solutions
Laboratory Work
Literature for the chapter “Stereophony”
- Auditory localization and head-related transfer functions
- Distance perception
- Perception of reverberation
- The psychoacoustics of stereophony
Literature for the chapter “Microphone Arrays”
Literature for the chapter “Loudspeaker Arrays”
Suggested Further Reading
Online Courses
Books
- Beranek and Mellow: Acoustics: Sound Fields and Transducers, Academic Press, 2012 (accessible with a Chalmers IP)
- Newell and Holland: Loudspeakers for Music Recording and Reproduction, Focal Press, 2007
- Kleiner: Electroacoustics, CRC Press, 2013
Journal papers
This is extra reading for those of you who are interested in loudspeaker design.
- Thiele – Vented boxes part I
- Thiele – Loudspeaker alignments
- Small – Vented box systems
- Small – Vented box systems part IV
- Stahl – Loudspeakers
Exam
A typical exam consists of 1–2 essay tasks and 4–5 problems (5–6 in total). Correct answers/solutions are awarded 5 points. A minimum of 12 points is required for a passing grade as well as an approved lab report.
The date of the exam will be announced.
Tools you are allowed to use during the exam:
- Electronic calculator without a text memory or with a cleared text memory
- Electroacoustics equation sheet (will be provided during the exam)
Do not forget to specify all assumptions applied in your solutions to the problems, to motivate the steps undertaken, and to state the units whenever relevant!
The following document contains a set of knowledge questions that you may want to use as guidance: