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- Acoustics is the branch of physics concerned with the study of sound.
- The application of acoustics in technology is called acoustical engineering.
- The word acoustic is derived from the ancient Greek word ακουστός , meaning able to be heard.
- Woodhouse, 1910, 392) Acoustics is the science concerned with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound. Its origins began with the study of mechanical vibrations and the radiation of these vibrations through mechanical waves, and still continues today.
- The study of acoustics has been fundamental to many developments in the arts. Some of these, especially in the area of musical scales and instruments, were only explained theoretically by scientists after long years of long experimentation by artists. For example, much of what is now known about architectural acoustics was actually learned by trial and error over centuries of experience and was only recently formalized into a science. Other applications of acoustic technology are in the study of geologic, atmospheric, and underwater phenomena.
