Interactive tools for undergraduate acoustics education:
Towards the utilization of web technology
Noah J. Parker
16 May 2024
Textbook figures are static, animations lack interactivity, and many simulation sets cover physics generally
Modern web technology allows for tools that are accessible, interactive, and engaging
I observed three undergraduate acoustics courses this past semester at varying levels
General Science Elective
Technical Elective
Communication Science Disorders
When are Sine and Cosine physically relevant,
and why is it called tangent?
What does it look like if you do vocal fry, or laugh, or cough, or sing!?
The students were trained in reading spectrograms but had never made one themselves.
How do I read the Equal Loudness Contours?
I amasssed a list of ideas for tools to be developed and am looking to collect more
- dB Scale Examples
- Taylor Series Approx.
- Significant Figures/rounding
- Why use log scales?
- Electrical circuit analogs
- Acoustics Vocabulary
- Non-normal membranes
- LP Filtered Instruments
- Plate Radiation Patterns
- Clarinet Reed Motion
- Coupled String Motion
- Discreet/Digital Signals
- Equal Loudness Curves
- Audible Frequency Spectra
- Examples of frequency and wavelength
- Reflections from impedance boundaries
- Monopole vs. Dipole Radiation
- Mode shapes in cones
- FEM Vocal Tract
- Room modes
- Superposition and Musical Chords
- Reciprocity vs. hysteresis
- Particle motion in viscous boundary layers
- Non-linear pendulum motion
Everything will be web-based and publicly available
