Sound waves

[Knabe]

I've been a list lurker for several weeks, and decided I needed to add my 2
cents.

To entirely understand piano acoustic properties, wouldn't one need to write
the acoustic equivalent of Maxwell's electromagnetic equations and solve
them given all the boundary conditions of the piano acoustic system?

I don't pretend to know anything about acoustics, so I'm not the guy that
can write those equations and solve them. But, if someone did, they would
have in their hands a complete complex acoustic design model of a piano.
This model would illustrate all the really neat things that this list talks
about, and allow modifications to be made to create the type of sound of
interest.

I do know a lot about electrical engineering (BSEE, MSEE) and I would expect
that all the analysis that we do for RF wave propagation should have an
equivalent body of knowledge in acoustics. Impedance properties of
electrical and RF circuits
are totally understood and very practical in their usage. It seems to me
that acoustic impedance should also be well understood and used.

Aren't there textbooks that discuss acoustic wave propagation from a wave
theory standpoint?

Best regards,
Doug Knabe

-----Original Message-----
>John Delacour wrote on Friday, December 07, 2001 6:25 PM
>
>Where is this man?
>
>JD