Download Multiple choice test - EXAMPLES

Department of Electronics
YEAR 1: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
Multiple choice test - EXAMPLES
Note: take the speed of sound in air at 20oC as 344ms-1
ACOUSTICS (Music and Media students)
1. The musical interval between the fifth and sixth harmonics is:
a) a perfect fifth
b) a minor third
c) a major third
2. A sound with a wavelength of 3.44m has a frequency of:
a) 100Hz
b) 1184Hz
c) 10Hz
3. When two violinists play together, both at 58dB, the total sound level is:
a) 116dB
b) 61dBHz
c) 64dB
PSYCHOACOUSTICS (Music Technology Students ONLY)
4. The sone scale is a scale of:
a) loudness
b) equal loudness
c) intensity
5. The place theory of pitch perception depends on:
a) the presence of the fundamental frequency
b) beats in the basilar membrane output waveforms
c) the location of maxima on the basilar membrane
6. The critical bandwidth is:
a) the total human hearing range
b) the effective bandwidth of an auditory filter
c) the distance between the 5th and 7th harmonics