Chapter 13 Acoustics 13 1 Acoustic waves 13 1 1 Introduction Wave phenomena are ubiquitous so the wave concepts presented in this text are widely relevant Acoustic waves offer an excellent example because of their similarity to electromagnetic waves and because of their important applications Beside the obvious role of acoustics in microphones and loudspeakers surface acoustic wave SAW devices are used as radio frequency RF filters acoustic wave modulators diffract optical beams for real time spectral analysis of RF signals and mechanical crystal oscillators currently control the timing of most computers and clocks Because of the great similarity between acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena this chapter also reviews much of electromagnetics from a different perspective Section 13 1 2 begins with a simplified derivation of the two main differential equations that characterize linear acoustics This pair of equations can be combined to yield the acoustic wave equation Only longitudinal acoustic waves are considered here not transverse or shear waves These equations quickly yield the group and phase velocities of sound waves the acoustic impedance of media and an acoustic Poynting theorem Section 13 2 1 then develops the acoustic boundary conditions and the behavior of acoustic waves at planar interfaces including an acoustic Snell s law Brewster s angle the critical angle and evanescent waves Section 13 2 2 shows how acoustic plane waves can travel within pipes and be guided and manipulated much as plane waves can be manipulated within TEM transmission lines Acoustic waves can be totally reflected at firm boundaries and Section 13 2 3 explains how they can be trapped and guided in a variety of propagation modes closely resembling those in electromagnetic waveguides where they exhibit cutoff frequencies of propagation and evanescence below cutoff Section 13 2 4 then explains how these guides can be terminated at their ends with open or closed orifices thus forming resonators with Q s that can be controlled as in electromagnetic resonators so as to yield band stop or band pass filters The frequencies of acoustic resonances can be perturbed by distorting the shape of the cavity as governed by nearly the same equation used for electromagnetic resonators except that the electromagnetic energy densities are replaced by acoustic energy density expressions Section 13 3 discusses acoustic radiation and antennas including antenna arrays and Section 13 4 concludes the chapter with a brief introduction to representative electroacoustic devices 13 1 2 Acoustic waves and power Most waves other than electromagnetic waves involve perturbations For example acoustic waves involve perturbations in the pressure and velocity fields in gases liquids or solids In gases we may express the total pressure pT density T and velocity u T fields as the sum of a static component and a dynamic perturbation 399 pT r t Po p r t N m 2 13 1 1 T r t o r t kg m3 13 1 2 u r t U o u r t m s 13 1 3 Another complexity is that unlike electromagnetic variables referenced to a particular location gases move and compress requiring further linearization 73 Most important is the approximation that the mean velocity Uo 0 After these simplifying steps we are left with two linearized acoustic equations Newton s law f ma and conservation of mass p o u t N m3 o u t 0 kg m3s Newton s law 13 1 4 conservation of mass 13 1 5 Newton s law states that the pressure gradient will induce mass acceleration while conservation of mass states that velocity divergence u is proportional to the negative time derivative of mass density These two basic equations involve three key variables p u and we need the acoustic constitutive relation to reduce this set to two variables Most acoustic waves involve frequencies sufficiently high that the heating produced by wave compression has no time to escape by conduction or radiation and thus this heat energy returns to the wave during the subsequent expansion without significant loss Such adiabatic processes involve no heat transfer across populations of particles The resulting adiabatic acoustic constitutive relation states that the fractional change in density equals the fractional change in pressure divided by a constant called the adiabatic exponent p o Po 13 1 6 The reason is not unity is that gas heats when compressed which further increases the pressure so the gas thereby appears to be slightly stiffer or more resistant to compression than otherwise This effect is diminished for gas particles that have internal rotational or vibrational degrees of freedom so the temperature rises less upon compression Ideal monatomic molecules without such degrees of freedom exhibit 5 3 and 1 2 in general Substituting this constitutive relation into the mass equation 13 1 5 replaces the variable with p yielding the acoustic differential equations p o u t N m3 73 Newton s law The Liebnitz identity facilitates taking time derivatives of integrals over volumes deforming in time 400 13 1 7 u 1 Po p t 13 1 8 These two differential equations are roughly analogous to Maxwell s equations 2 1 5 and 2 1 6 and can be combined To eliminate u from Newton s law we operate on it with and then substitute 13 1 8 for u to form the acoustic wave equation analogous to the Helmholtz wave equation 2 2 7 2 p o Po 2 p t 2 0 acoustic wave equation 13 1 9 Wave equations state that the second spatial derivative equals the second time derivative times a constant If the constant is not frequency dependent then any arbitrary function of an argument that is the sum or difference of terms linearly proportional to time and space will satisfy this equation for example p r t p t k r N m 2 13 1 10 where p is an arbitrary function of its argument and k k x x k y y k z z this is analogous to the wave solution 9 2 4 using the notation 9 2 5 Substituting the solution 13 1 10 into the wave equation yields 2 x 2 2 y2 2 z2 p t k r o Po 2p t k r t 2 0 13 1 11 k 2x k 2y k z2 p t k r o Po 2 p t k r 0 13 1 12 k 2x k 2y k z2 k 2 2 o Po 2 v2p 13 1 13 This is analogous to the electromagnetic dispersion relation 9 2 8 As in the case of electromagnetic waves see 9 5 19 and 9 5 20 the acoustic phase velocity vp and acoustic group velocity vg are simply related to k v p k Po o 1 0 5 cs vg k Po o 0 5 acoustic phase velocity 13 1 14 cs acoustic group velocity 13 1 15 Adiabatic acoustic waves propagating in 0oC air near sea level experience 1 4 o 1 29 kg m3 and Po 1 01