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660 IndexWater-hammer arresters, 370Wave distortion, 617–619Wave equationeffect of initial conditions on, 78–80general solution of, 73–74longitudinal, see Longitudinal wave equationfor membranes, 111–112simple harmonic solutions of, 75–76transverse, see Transverse wave equationWave motion, 16Wave nature of sound, 13–15Waveguideboundary condition at driving end of, 144with constant cross-section, 140–143rigid-walled circular, 144Wavelength, 18Waves, 31–39complex, 33–36energy flux density of, 434forward propagating plane, 31–33hemispherical, 65one-dimensional, 620in pipes, 155–158plane, 620reflection of, at boundaries, 74–75spherical, 64standing, see Standing wavesWebster, Arthur Gordon, 5Weighting curves, 52–55Weighting functions, 196–199Welding, ultrasonic, 489Wever-Bray effect, 219White noise, 228, 615Wind instruments, 521, 522, 536–553Window duration, 196Window error, 196Workplace, noise sources in, 357–358Workplace noise exposure, 346–347Worst noise hour, 336Xylophone, 553Young’s modulus, 18, 91, 629Young, Thomas, 6Zither, 529

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