Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications 3rd Edition by Allan D. Pierce (PDF)

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This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view that have proven useful in applications such as noise control, underwater sound, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and medical ultrasonics.Since its publication, this text has been used as part of numerous acoustics-related courses across the world, and continues to be used widely today. During its writing, the book was fine-tuned according to insights gleaned from a broad range of classroom settings. Its careful design supports students in their pursuit of a firm foundation while allowing flexibility in course structure. The book can easily be used in single-term or full-year graduate courses and includes problems and answers. This rigorous and essential text is a must-have for any practicing or aspiring acoustician.

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⭐Pierce assumes you know SOMETHING: Tensors, conservation of mass, momentum, energy, heat transfer, etc. to get to the wave equation, quickly, all in 3D does not piddle around with the stuff you should have seen in continuum mechanics course (which I never took undergrad). However, the book is solid, the content is rigorous and NOT easy. Saying “Hi Siri” , start a grocery list seem now “standard”, but as the author will warn you: Acoustic times time to master and a LOT of effort for those who don’t have the IQ of Nash or the like. This is a companion book for me, a reference, it jumps to topics very relevant to acoustics, but its pedagogy is for someone who already feels comfortable with the subject. Read Blackstock to get to the level of Morse – Vibration and Sound, then jump to Morse, then to Pierce and learn some continuum mechanics from Bedford/Drumheller on the way. Great book, but not an entry level, I never heard of acoustics type of guy.

⭐If you are mathematically inclined this book provides a great reference for acoustic phenomenon for a large set of scenarios.

⭐My goal was to develop a solid foundation in acoustics. For this purpose, Pierce’s book delivers. After spending many hours studying his text, working the exercises, and following the references, I am now able to understand modern research papers and products in a variety of acoustic fields.I believe Pierce’s book is effective because he does 3 things well. First, Pierce develops everything from the ground up, from the same rigorous foundation. Room acoustics, lumped parameter models, and edge diffraction no longer feel like separate black arts as much as they are consequences of the same set of equations, after making different assumptions and approximations. Second, Pierce’s numerous references place his exposition in the main line of development of the field. He cites Lord Rayleigh for initial insights, Lamb for core fluid dynamics principles, and Watson’s treatise on Bessel functions — you are always one step away from the original source. And third, the exercises in the book are excellent teachers. Having worked out all 358 problems, I can say that there is not a one that fails to provide a deeper understanding of the material.While I don’t have anything purely negative to say of Pierce’s work, producing a text like this is not without making tough tradeoffs. I’ll call out the 3 biggest challenges that I see. First, this book is a comprehensive teaching, not an encyclopedic reference. Concepts and definitions are introduced along the way as you learn, and are therefore not as easy to look up afterwards. Second, Pierce uses approximations guided by intuition to short-circuit complex derivations, allowing him to cover an incredible breadth of material in a single book. While this is great for building intuition, you often need to apply a more systematic approach when confronting new problems. And third, while Pierce provides the background material you need to go deep, there’s real math here. You don’t necessarily need to take an introductory acoustics course before jumping into Pierce, but it will greatly help if you’ve seen a wave equation.A note on the various editions, at least at the time I am writing: if you don’t already have the book, you are likely looking at the latest Springer edition (3rd ed, 2019). This version was rebuilt in LaTeX by scanning the previous ASA edition (2nd ed, 1989). The result is that the navigation and footnotes are now modernized, some of the typos are fixed, and most importantly the book can be made available for future generations. However, a few errors were introduced, as the scanning technology missed some mathematical symbols and expressions. It is usually obvious where this happened, and hopefully corrections will continue in future versions. In any event, both the 2nd and 3rd editions have an appendix of concise “answers and hints” to the problems, which are very helpful for self-study, validating your understanding without giving the whole solution away.In summary, I highly recommend Pierce’s book and am grateful for all the hard work that clearly went into making such an excellent and rigorous introduction to the field.For those interested, I will risk making this review longer with an overview for each chapter.1. The Wave Theory of SoundPierce lays out all the fundamentals: the key physical equations upon which everything else is built, enough thermodynamics background to get going, the core linear model, the resulting wave equation along with the common solutions, and how to reason about power and energy.2. Quantitative Measures of SoundYour mind starts thinking in terms of decibels and frequencies, as Pierce provides the basic Fourier analysis tools that justify making single frequency assumptions everywhere else, without loss of generality.3. Reflection, Transmission, and Excitation of Plane WavesAfter two chapters on the foundation, it’s great to solve some practical physical problems in the third chapter. As the title suggests, Pierce considers all sorts of behavior at surface boundaries, culminating with an analysis of transmission loss through solid objects.4. Radiation from Vibrating BodiesThis is perhaps the most important theoretical chapter, for two reasons: it reduces the determination of acoustic pressure to the problem of solving partial differential equations with boundary conditions, and it demonstrates how sound from all small vibrating bodies can be expanded into monopole, dipole, etc. terms.5. Radiation from Sources Near and on Solid SurfacesChapter 5 escalates quickly, starting with the essential image source technique to explain why pressure doubles for sources at a wall, and ultimately developing a detailed treatment of diffraction for a circular baffled piston.6. Room AcousticsWhat a fun chapter! Sabine’s reverberation theory is compared with modal theory, and applied to windows, coupled rooms, and cocktail parties. There is also a brief exploration of the spatial variation of sound fields in reverberant rooms.7. Low-Frequency Models of Sound TransmissionAfter a brief discussion on waveguides, low frequency models are developed, allowing you to reason about various acoustic configurations using equivalent circuits. Applications include ducts, mufflers, and horns.8. Ray AcousticsNow at the other extreme at high frequencies, sound propagates along ray tubes. Inhomogeneous media bends such rays, giving rise to ray channeling in the atmosphere, abnormal sound, and shadow zones. Wave amplitudes change as ray tubes deform, media moves, and rays are reflected.9. Scattering and DiffractionThis is really two distinct chapters merged into one. The first, on scattering, synthesizes many earlier themes to understand how sound bounces off of objects. The second chapter, on diffraction, picks up the theme from chapter 5 by developing creeping waves and wedge diffraction, explaining how sound propagates into shadow zones and around corners. At this point in the middle of chapter 9, the material in the book starts feeling a bit rougher, with less guidance and bigger logical steps, like you’ve just gone off-road.10. Effects of Viscosity and Other Dissipative ProcessesPierce hits reset by taking us back to chapter 1, adding terms to model viscosity and thermal conduction, and rolling through the implications for attenuation and sound radiation (explaining, among other things, helicopter noise). He concludes by explaining how gas molecules absorb sound, bringing in enough statistical mechanics to model relaxation processes.11. Nonlinear Effects in Sounds PropagationPierce hits reset again, this time taking us back to chapter 1 and considering the nonlinear terms. Waveform portions at higher overpressure travel faster, leading to higher harmonics, shocks, and N waves. The book ends, appropriately, with a sonic boom.

⭐Que dire pour qui est passionné par le sujet large de l’Acoustique avec un grand A, un livre référence absolue, cotoyé, lu à de multiples reprises durant mes études en ingénierie acoustique, puis perdu de vue et quel bonheur d’enfin acquérir cette nouvelle édition-une source d’inspiration qui donne sens au métier d’acousticien.

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⭐Comprehensive and understandable. Good text.

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