With a Radio Shack analog SPL meter and my computer and tape drive running, I measure an ambient noise level right around 50dB (C weighting). I was wondering if this is sufficiently loud enough to ...

Noisy environments can significantly and negatively effect our bodies, and are a great villain to concentration, learning, and productivity in classrooms and offices. Headaches are one momentary ...

It almost seems like another age, but a common complaint of office workers was that the modern open-plan office was too noisy to get anything done. The constant hubbub of chatter, machinery, and ...

In 2023, half of residential rooms were next to active construction sites. Now that the art museum is open and Dillon Gym construction is done, many fewer rooms abut campus construction; however, the ...

From the Richter scale to sound pressure, many modern units utilize the logarithmic “base 10” system. But to many engineers, the decibel (dB) remains one of the trickiest concepts of test and ...