Abstract
DR. DAVIS'S treatise on modern acoustics has more than fulfilled the expectations aroused by the announcement of its early appearance. The author has, very wisely, interpreted the title of the book strictly and, by saving space which might otherwise have been devoted to fundamental dynamical theory and to such classical problems as the vibrations of bars and strings, has been able to provide us with very full, lucid and well-documented accounts of the remarkable advances in acoustics made in the present generation. Modern methods of measurement of intensity, frequency and reverberation, the development of the notion of acoustical impedance, the ear and hearing, the acoustics of auditoriums, noise, its measurement and its suppression-this list by no means exhausts the topics treated in a volume which no advanced student of the science can afford to ignore.
Modern Acoustics.
By Dr. A. H. Davis. Pp. xi + 345. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 26s. net.
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F., A. Modern Acoustics . Nature 135, 456 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135456b0
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