Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780387955834 Publisher: Springer New York Publication date: 10/01/2003 Series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing Edition description: 2003 Pages: 831 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.07(d) Soun is nought but air y-broke —Geoffrey Chaucer end of the 14th century Traditionally, acoustics has formed one of the fundamental branches of physics. In the twentieth century, the ?eld has broadened considerably and become - creasingly interdisciplinary. At the present time, specialists in modern acoustics can be encountered not only in physics departments, but also in electrical and mechanical engineering departments, as well as in mathematics, oceanography, and even psychology departments. They work in areas spanning from musical instruments to architecture to problems related to speech perception. Today, six hundred years after Chaucer made his brilliant remark, we recognize that sound and acoustics is a discipline extremely broad in scope, literally covering waves and