Thursday 12 July 2018

Acoustics: Reflection and Transmission Coefficients


While studying about reflections and transmission coefficient in a discontinuous Media I came across two definition of coefficients one which seems to be correct according to me as it is in accordance with the physics but there is another definition which I have found in many books and used in many papers. Consider a case, when wave is incident from low impedance medium 1 to high impedance medium 2. Then as per my understanding, the amplitude of incident wave should decrease as it goes from low to high impedance ( given by relation 2 below). But if I use relation 1, the amplitude of transmitted wave increases as we go from low to high impedance and that is not possible.


$Z_1$ and $Z_2$ are impedance of two media



  • Relation 1:



$$R= \frac{Z_2 - Z_1}{Z_1 + Z_2},\quad T = \frac{2 Z_2}{Z_1 + Z_2}$$



  • Relation 2: $$R = \frac{Z_1 - Z_2}{Z_1 + Z_2},\quad T = \frac{2 Z_1}{Z1 + Z_2}$$


Could someone please clarify my doubts and discrepancy in the relations that I found?


Reference



  1. Kinsler. Fundamentals of Acoustics.



Reference for the problem: Fundamentals of AcousticsExplaination which arises doubt




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