Week

Date

Topic

Readings,
Assignments

Homeworks due Mondays, Tests on Wednesdays

1

Aug. 27

Why Acoustics?
Nature of Sound I

WK1

2

Sept. 3

Pressure & Waves

WK2

Homework #1

3

Sept. 10

Simple Harmonic Motion

WK3

Homework #2

4

Sept. 17

Damping

WK4

Homework #3
Test #1

5

Sept. 24

Law of Exponants & Logs
Decibels

WK5

Homework #4

6

Oct. 1

Decibels

WK6

Homework #5

7

Oct. 8

Complex Waves

WK7

Homework #6

8

Oct. 15

Resonance

WK8

Homework #7
Test #2

9

Oct. 22

Filters and Noise

WK9

Homework #8

10

Oct. 29

Sound Transmission

WK10

Homework #9

11

Nov. 5

Speech sounds & phonation

WK11

Homework #10

12

Nov. 12

Consonants & Vowels
Spectrograms

WK12

Homework #11

13

Nov. 19

Speech Perception I
(Break)

WK13

Homework #12

14

Nov. 26

Speech Perception II

WK14

Homework #13
Test #3

15

Dec. 3

Speech Synthesis

WK15

Speech Project