Architectural Acoustics &Architectural Lighting

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1. The number of cycles per unit time of a wave or oscillation.

A Wave B Intensity

C Frequency D Wavelength

2. A type of Light color temperature which is best in kitchens, bathrooms or garages; giving
rooms a whiter, more energetic feel

A Soft white/Warm White B Bright While/ Cool White

C Daylight D Neutral white

3. A type of Light color temperature which is best in bathrooms, kitchens and basements;
good for reading, intricate projects, or applying makeup-provides the greatest contrast
among colors.

A Bright White/Cool White B Daylight

C Soft white/Warm White D Neutral white

4. The amount of light or density of luminous flux striking a unit area.

A Lumen B Lux

C Luminance D Illuminance

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5. A Gas-Discharge Lamps and have been widely used in industrial lighting, especially in large
manufacturing facilities, and are commonly used as plant grow lights. They contain mercury.
They have also been widely used for outdoor area lighting, such as on roadways, parking
lots, and security areas. Understanding the change in human color vision sensitivity from
photopic to mesopic and scotopic is essential for proper planning when designing lighting
for roadways.

A High Pressure Sodium Lamp B Low Pressure Sodium Lamp

C Metal Halide Lamp D High Pressure Mercury Lamp

6. HCL expresses the positive effect of light and lighting on the health, well-being and
performance of humans and thus has both short and long-term benefits.

A Health Centric Lighting B Human Centric Lighting

C Health Certification Lighting D Human Certification Lighting

7. The glare of all luminaires that are in the room regularly can be evaluated with the UGR
method, as specified in the standard EN 12464-1 “Lighting of indoor workplaces”. What is
UGR?

A uniform glare rating B uniform glaring rate

C unified glare rating D unified glaring rate

8. An electrical lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of
vaporized mercury and metal halides.

A Low Pressure Sodium Lamp B High Pressure Mercury Lamp

C High Pressure Sodium Lamp D Metal Halide Lamp

9. Lamps having a borosilicate glass gas discharge tube (arc tube) containing solid sodium, a
small amount of neon, and argon gas in a Penning mixture to start the gas discharge.

A Low Pressure Sodium Lamp B High Pressure Sodium Lamp

C High Pressure Mercury Lamp D Metal Halide Lamp

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10. A Lamp that produces light as a result of an electrical discharge, generated between two
electrodes, in a high-pressure mercury vapor that is contained in a transparent bulb.

A Low Pressure Sodium Lamp B High Pressure Sodium Lamp

C Metal Halide Lamp D High Pressure Mercury Lamp

11. The distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, from any one point to the
next point of corresponding phase.

A Wave B Phon

C Wavelength D Hertz

12. Defined as the loss that occurs when a sound goes through a partition or barrier. A higher
TL number means more loss, i.e., less acoustic energy gets through.

A transmission loss B transference loss

C Conveyance loss D transferral loss

13. Which of the following Floor and Ceiling Systems has the least Sound Transmission Class
(STC)?

Ceiling treatment: 3 inch mineral wool.

Ceiling treatment: 1/2 inch gypsum
Resilient Channels 2 ft-0 inch o.c. 5/8 inch
wallboard nailed to joists Treatment of
gypsum board Treatment of floor above:
A floor above: 12 inch lightweight concrete B
1-1/2 inch lightweight concrete on 1/2 inch
on 5/8 inch plywood, 2 × 12 joists 16
sound deadening board on 5/8 inch
inches on centers.
plywood, 2 × 10 joists, 16 inches o.c.

Ceiling treatment: 3 inch mineral wool. Ceiling treatment: 2 inch mineral wool. 1/2
Resilient channels 2 ft-0 inch on center 1/2 inch sound deadening board. Resilient
inch sound deadening board, 5/8 inch channels 2 ft-0 in o.c. 5/8 inch gypsum
C D
gypsum board Treatment of floor above: board Treatment of floor above: 1-1/2 inch
1-1/8 inch plywood on 2 × 10 joists 16 lightweight concrete on 1/2 inch plywood,
inches o.c. 2 × 10 joists, 16 inches o.c.

14. The velocity of sound travelling through air.

A Speed of sound B Frequency

C Phon D Sound Intensity

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15. The rate at which acoustic energy flows through a medium, expressed in watts per square
meter.

A Sound Pressure B Wavelength

C Frequency D Sound Intensity

16. An apparent shift in frequency occurring when an acoustic source and listener are in motion
relative to each other, the frequency increasing when the source and listener approach
each other and decreasing when they move apart.

A Concave Effect B Convex Effect

C . Doppler Effect D Harmonic

17. The maximum deviation of a wave or alternating current from its average value.

A Amplitude B Wave form

C Frequency D Rise

18. The SI unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second.

A Octave B Pitch

C phon D Hertz

19. What is a vibration having a frequency that is an integral multiple of that of the
fundamental.

A Harmonic B Sone

C Octave D Pitch

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20. Walls provide building occupants with the most protection from exterior noise. Different
wall materials and designs vary greatly in their sound insulating properties. Which of the
following way(s) in which the acoustical properties of walls can be improved?

Placement of suds should not be

A B Increase the spacing between wall studs
staggered.

C avoid using dissimilar wall panels D all of the above

E minimize air space between walls.

21. The level of sound intensity high enough to produce the sensation of pain in the human ear,
usually around 130 db.

A Threshold of pain B Loudness

C Threshold of hearing D auditory fatigue

22. The unit for expressing the relative pressure or intensity of sounds on a uniform scale from
0 for the least perceptible sound to about 130 for the average threshold of pain.

A Hertz B Sound intensity

C Decibel D Sone

23. The minimum sound pressure capable of stimulating an auditory sensation; usually 20
micropascal or zero db.

A Threshold of hearing B auditory fatigue

C Loudness D Threshold of pain

24. Which of the following wall types shows the highest sound insulation values?

Staggered stud wall with absorbent

A 7” Concrete wall B
blanket

C 12” Brick wall D Staggered stud wall.

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25. The repetition of the sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from an obstructing
surface, loud enough and received late enough to be perceived as distinct from the source.

A Attenuation B echo

C Flutter D Resonance

26. TRUE or FALSE. In general, plantings by themselves do not provide much sound attenuation.
It is more effective, therefore, to use plantings in conjunction with other noise reduction
techniques and for aesthetic enhancement.

A True B Yes

C . False D No

27. What is the persistence of a sound within an enclosed space, caused by multiple reflections
of the sound after its source has stopped.

A Flutter B Echo

C Reverberation D Resonance

28. The intensification and prolongation of sound produced by sympathetic vibration.

A Echo B Flutter

C Resonance D Attenuation

29. The decrease in energy or pressure per unit area of a sound wave, occurring as the distance
from the source increases as a result of absorption, scattering, or spreading in three
dimensions.

A Resonance B Reverberation

C Echo D Attenuation

30. Sound waves are what type wave?

A indirect waves B Transverse Waves

C Longitudinal Waves D direct waves

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31. Double-glazed windows are paired panes separated by an airspace or hung in a special
frame. Which of the following technique cannot increase the performance of the double-
glazed window in reducing noise?

A proper use of sealing B use of slightly non-parallel panes

increasing the airspace width between use of slightly similar thickness of the
C D
panes panes

E increasing the glass thickness

32. The combination of microphones, signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers in

enclosures all controlled by a mixing console that makes live or pre-recorded sounds louder
and may also distribute those sounds to a larger or more distant audience.

A Sound Reinforcement System B Loud Speaker Arrays

C Signal Processors D Mixing Console

33. TRUE OR FALSE: For buildings as noise shields; a long building, or a row of buildings parallel
to a highway cannot shield other more distant structures or open areas from noise.

A false B true

34. A wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth in the ‘same direction’ in
which the wave is moving. Medium can be solid, liquid or gases.

A direct waves B Longitudinal Waves

C indirect waves D Transverse Waves

35. The process of adding background sound to reduce noise distractions, protect speech
privacy and increase office comfort

A sound concealing B sound masking

C Sound covering D Sound taping

36. A science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of
sound

A sonochemistry B acoustics

C Audiology D Thermoacoustics

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37. The time required for one complete cycle of a wave oscillation.

A Period B cycle

C amplitude D time

38. A high-density part of the wave. It is the peak of the wave

A frequency B compression

C refraction D wavelength

39. A low-density part of the wave. This is the trough of the wave.

A compression B wavelength

C refraction D frequency

40. A measure of the energy loss of sound propagation media?

A Acoustic emission B Acoustic impedance

C Acoustic levitation D Acoustic attenuation

41. A measure of the opposition that a system presents to the acoustic flow resulting from an
acoustic pressure applied to the system.

A Acoustic attenuation B Acoustic levitation

C Acoustic impedance D Acoustic emission

42. A family of non-destructive testing techniques based on the propagation of ultrasonic waves
in the object or material tested. It is used in many industries including steel and aluminum
construction, metallurgy, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive and other transportation
sectors.

A Ultrasonic testing B ultrasound testing

C acoustic testing D Acoustic emission

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43. Refers to the deflection of sound waves around a small obstacle or part of an obstacle, or at
the edge of a large obstacle or restricted opening.

A Resonance B rarefaction

C Diffraction D Reflection

44. Ultrasonic wave is as sound wave transmitted at a frequency greater than ____ hertz per
second or beyond the normal hearing range of humans.

A 12,000 B 15,000

C 10,000 D . 20,000

45. The human ear has receptors that can detect sound frequencies raging from 16 vibrations
to _____ vibrations per second.

A 35,000 B 30,000

C 20,000 D 25,000

46. Perceived as how "loud" or "soft" a sound is and relates to the totaled number of auditory
nerve stimulations over short cyclic time periods, most likely over the duration of theta
wave cycles.

A phon B intensity

C Pitch D loudness

47. A transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

A Loudspeakers B Microphones

C Signal Processors D Amplifiers

48. The scientific study of sound perception and audiology – how humans perceive various
sounds. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the psychological and
physiological responses associated with sound (including noise, speech and music).

A Psycholinguistics B Cognitive neuroscience of music

C Psychology acoustics D Psychoacoustics

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49. He is considered as the father of architectural acoustics.

A Wallace Clement Sabin B Wallace Clement Sabine

C Wallace Clemente Sabine D Wallace Clemente Sabin

50. A type of noise that is produced by combining sounds of all different frequencies together.

A Impulsive noise B Intermittent noise

C white noise D black noise

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Answer Key

1.c 2.b 3.b 4.d

5. 6.b 7.c 8.d

9.d 10.d 11.c 12.

13.a 14.a 15.d 16.c

17.a 18.d 19. 20.b

21.a 22.c 23.a 24.c

25.b 26.a 27.c 28.c

29.d 30.c 31.d 32.a

33.a 34.b 35.b 36.b

37.a 38.b 39.c 40.d

41.c 42. 43.c 44.d

45.c 46.d 47.b 48.d

49.b 50.c

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