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ACOUSTICS OF BUILDINGS

Reverberation : It is connected with the hearing to speakers and musicians in halls and auditoriums. For the hall to be acoustically good , the speech or music should be heard clearly without any mixing of syllables. There is no prolongation of the original sound of the speaker. The time taken by the sound to fall below the minimum audibility , measured from the instant of its generation or the stopping of the source is called reverberation time. When a speaker speaks in a big hall , there are multiple reflections of the sound from roof , walls , floor etc. At each reflection the intensity falls. Thus a ...

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