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- The area of higher than normal air pressure.
- Compression
- The area of lower than normal air pressure.
- Rarefaction
- The Height or Strength of wave or the energy it carries.
- Amplitude
- The place where the soundwave and the reflection are in phase.
- Antinode
- This connects the throat and sinuses to the Inner Ear.
- Eustachian Tubes
- The number of waves passing through a point at a specific time.
- Frequency
- The bending of a wave around a barrier.
- Diffraction
- A room built for little or no reflection.
- Dead Room
- Frequency measurement
- Hz
- A room for great reflection.
- Live room
- Mixtures of frequencies that create a tone.
- Overtone
- The duration of one cycle of a wave.
- Period
- Material that sound travels through.
- Medium
- 2 or more waves occupying the same space.
- Interference
- Frequency changes in high and low.
- Pitch
- 1 of the 2 waveforms. This is artificial and used for testing.
- Simple
- Temporary ringing with permanent damage to the ear.
- Temporary Threshhold Shift (TTS)
- When sound is asorbed and set into motion.
- Transmission
- Multiple reflections from mutilple boundaries,
- Reverberations
- The decline of your hearing from the aging process.
- Presbycusis
- The bouncing of waves off of a surface.
- Reflection
- A microphone converts changes in air pressure to an electrical impulse, which is called a
- Signal
- A compression and rarefaction of a sound wave comprise one _____of the wave.
- Cycle
- The maximum displacement or strength of a wave is known as its
- Amplitude
- This is defined as the unit of measure expressing the intensity of a signal on a logarithmic scale.
- Decibel
- The range of the greatest sensitivity of human hearing is
- 20hz to 20khz
- The federal entity charged with regulating workplace noise levels is
- OSHA
- Dividing the speed of a wave by its frequency will divulge its
- Wavelength
- Simple waves and complex waves are 2 types of these
- Waveforms
- The unit of measurement of a phase is called the
- Degree
- Different exponents of the same base are called.
- Logarithms
- This amount of decibel increase signifies doubling of actual power.
- 3dB
- This is a unit of pressure equal to one Newtonof force acting uniformly upon a area measuring 1 square meter
- Pascal
- When 2 waves with identical phase occupy the same space and reinforce each other they are said to be
- In-Phase
- This takes place when 2 waves are out of phase. Ex. 1 in compression 1 in rarefaction
- Cancellation
- Rooms with highly reflective boundaries are called
- Live Rooms
- Rooms with low reflective boundaries are of course called
- Dead Rooms
- Multiple Reflections off of multiple boundaries are called
- Reverberations
- A wave that lacks vibration at certain intervals in called a
- Standing Wave
- What is known as the bending of a wave around the edge of a barrier.
- Diffraction
- These are moving storyboards
- Animatics
- A short solo
- Break
- This breaks up the repitition of a song.
- The Bridge
- This grabs the audience,
- The Hook
- A reoccuring element that is important to the storyline.
- Icon
- Introduces the melody or feel of the song.
- Intro
- Highlights an instrument or instruments in the song
- Solo
- Images set up shot by shot for
- Storyboards
- The order of the sections of a song
- Form
- Tells a story and uses different words everytime
- Verse
- Sidetracks the viewer from what the real plot of the movie is
- McGuffin
- This is a sample recording to expose the abilities of an act.
- Demo
- The part of the play that provides background info
- Exposition
- The major event that propels the audience to the 2nd act.
- Plot One Point
- The point of no return.
- Midpoint
- This is the pinnacle of dynamic tension in the story, transpires the end of the 2nd act.
- Climax
- One page of screenplay converts to
- One minute
- This main characters changes and experiences are documented by a particular script
- Protangonist
- THis character triggers changes tah occur in the main character.
- Antagonist
- Device capable of documenting high and low pitch sounds
- Real Time Analyzer (RTA)
- This device provides amplitude information on the sounds loudness
- Sound Pressure Level Meter (SPL)
- What is the speed of sound in air?
- 1130 per second
- What is the Human amplitude range?
- -1/4 to 140 dB
- 2 types of waveforms
- complex and simple
- Herman Hollerith was the inventor of what?
- He invented the punch card loom.
- Vannuever Bush invented the?
- Invented the (DA) Differential Analyzer
- What is AGP?
- Accerlated Graphics Port, used for 3d graphics
- What is a Application?
- An enviroment supported by the OS
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- Binary Number
- Data represented in 0's and 1's
- Bit
- Single digit code 0 or 1
- Bus
- Collection of wires that transfer data throughout the computer
- Byte
- Eight bits. 10011010
- Chipset
- Controlls the motherboard function
- Clockspeed
- The rate at which the CPU executes instructions
- What the fuck is a Computer?
- A programmable device meant to store and process data.
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit. The Brain of the Computer.
- Expansion Cards
- Graphic, Sound and Network Cards
- File
- A Collection of data on an application.
- Filename
- The name that a file is saved as.
- Input Device
- Receives data from an input source such as a keyboard
- ISA
- Industy Standard Archirtecture. 16 bit obsolete
- Mainframe
- Supports hundreds of thousands of users simultaneousely
- Microcomputer
- Dummy terminals meant for input/output devices
- Minicomputer
- Smaller version of the mainframe used in labs, hospitals etc.
- Motherboard
- The main circuit board of the PC.
- Nibble
- 4 bits 0110
- OS
- OPERATING SYSTEM known as the computers toolboxq
- Output Device
- Any device that data is sent out to. ex. monitor
- PCI
- Peripheral Component Interconnect 32bit
- Peripheral
- Any device you add to the computer to give it more capabilities
- PC
- Single user computer
- Program
- Meant for processing data
- Ram
- Random Access Memory. Holds data while computer is on.
- ROM
- Read Only Memory. Holds data while computer is off.
- Serial Connection
- Offers 1 bit transfer
- Supercomputer
- Built for a single application
- Width
- The maximum amount of data you can push through the bus.
- What is word?
- Long strands of bits
- Single User PC with more processing power.
- Workstation
- These were developed in 1947 which led to smaller faster products of the 50s
- Transistors
- This is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into a computer
- Expansion Cards
- This is a code used by computers which expresses English language in form of numbers
- ASCII
- The was considered the first consumer priced personal computer,
- Altair 8800
- The 2 Steves founded this company in 1976?
- Apple
- This was considered to be the first KILLER APPLICATION.
- VisiCalc
- These are known as IBM compatible computers made by other companies
- Clones
- This is a open source OS
- Linux
- 1970 Bell Labs created the computer code written for UNIX
- B
- Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs ushered in a computer language still used today
- C
- This is a text based and embedded browser application that cannot be run independently
- Javascript