Fundamentals of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing

Fundamentals of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing presents a clear and precise treatment of the physics of sound while using a level of math suitable for readers in the speech, language, hearing, and health sciences. This book provides the reader with an understanding of the science of sound. Simple mathematics, graphics, and qualitative descriptions are demonstrated to explain wave concepts, spectrograms, intensity and decibels. Concepts are applied to the physics of speech and hearing. Speech pathologists, communication disorders specialists