Abstract
Several measures have been devised for evaluating those characteristics of an acoustic medium, or of its boundaries, which determine the level of reverberation following the transmission of a pulse of acoustic energy. Of those measures which are applicable to surface reverberation, the coefficient giving the rate per unit area at which acoustic energy reaching a scattering surface along a given ray path is returned toward the source is particularly useful in computing the equivalent plane wave level of reverberation as a function of time. The present paper discusses the relations between this coefficient and other factors which must be taken into account in computing the total transmission loss suffered by acoustic energy returned in the form of reverberation. The significance of these relations with respect to practical problems is discussed briefly. A simple and accurate method for measuring the value of the backscattering coefficient in any given situation is described.
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