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ISBN: 9780134779218

Author: Knight

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 15, Problem 48P

Your ears are sensitive to differences in pitch, but they are not very sensitive to differences in intensity. You are not capable of detecting a difference in sound intensity level of less than 1 dB. By what factor does the sound intensity increase if the sound intensity level increases from 60 dB to 61 dB?

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Chapter 15, Problem 47P

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