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The law of stifling of sound by curtains or cushions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Joseph Larmor
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Abstract

The intensity of stifling is estimated. Under ideal conditions the absorption should vary as the secant of the angle of incidence of the sound.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1930 , pp. 231 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1930

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* Reported by Heyl, , Chrisler, and Snyder, in Journ. Washington Acad., Report of Phil. Soc. 10 23, 1929.Google Scholar

† Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 6 (1837), 403–413: Math. Papers, pp. 232–42.Google Scholar

* Cf. Rayleigh's, posthumous discussion of selective reflection, owing to surface cavities, Scientific Papers, Vol. VI, pp. 662–9. The explanation of stifling of sound, explored technically by Sabine, was first given by Rayleigh, for direct incidence, in Theory of Sound, Vol. II (1896), §§350–1.Google Scholar