The Variation of Sound Intensity with Distance from the Source; An Interesting Case of Deviation from the Inverse Square Law

Authors

Harold Stiles, State University of IowaFollow
G. W. Stewart, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The phenomena of sound present many interesting features and diffraction is not the least. The writers have been able, by an extension of Rayleigh's theory, to determine the effect in the neighborhood of a rigid sphere produced by a source of sound located on that sphere. One of the results of this theoretical investigation is the establishment of the variation of the intensity of sound with the distance from the center of the sphere. The computations necessary for approximate numerical results are tediously long, and those given herewith are merely those that were readily available in other investigations of the writers.

Publication Date

1914

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

21

Issue

1

First Page

255

Last Page

256

Copyright

©1914 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Stiles, Harold and Stewart, G. W. (1914) "The Variation of Sound Intensity with Distance from the Source; An Interesting Case of Deviation from the Inverse Square Law," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 21(1), 255-256.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol21/iss1/37