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Transient Oscillations in a Loud-Speaker Horn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. W. McLachlan  and
A. T. Mckay
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The steady state theory of sound propagation in exponential loud-speaker horns is well known. The problem of transients, however, has not been treated hitherto, so in this paper it is proposed to consider what happens when the air particles at the throat of the horn are suddenly set in motion. To avoid difficulties which arise in treating sound propagation in the horn when the linear dimensions of the cross-section are comparable with the wave-length of the sound, the following

artifice is postulated. The axis of the horn is linear and the air column is divided up into a large number of frictionless conduits by very thin rigid partitions as indicated in Fig. 1. The cross-section of each conduit expands exponentially from the throat towards the mouth of the horn. The major linear dimension of the section of a conduit at the mouth is small in comparison with the wave-length of the highest frequency to be reproduced.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 1936 , pp. 265 - 275
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1936

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* This means the highest frequency in the range covered by the horn. In general the range 40 to 10,000 ˜ is covered by two horn speakers.

* McLachlan, , Loud speakers (1934), p. 178, formula 4.Google Scholar

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* The condition ω2 ≫ ¼β2c2 being maintained.

† Loud speakers, p. 335Google Scholar: horn only 4′6″ long, giving small damping below 250 c./s

‡ At abscissa x the sound pressure has the form .

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† According to the hypothesis upon which the analysis is based.

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