On the physical meaning of the power factor in acoustics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 269-280

  Stanzial, Domenico ^a   Sacchi, Giorgio ^a   Schiffrer, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC CIRCUITS; ENERGY PATHS; ENERGY PROPAGATION; ENERGY TRAJECTORY; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LINE NETWORK; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; POWER FACTORS; SOUND ENERGY; SPATIAL DIRECTION; TIME-AVERAGED PROPERTIES; VECTOR FIELDS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

EID: 84855928963     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3664051     Document Type: Article

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