声学基础课件（许肖梅）FUNDAMENTALS OF ACOUSTICS 07-7.pptVIP

Many physical phenomena have a property called linearity. This means that the forces acting on the medium produce motions in exact proportion; doubling the cause will double the effect. Although nonlinearity does occur for sound waves of very large amplitude, the approximation that sound waves behave linearly is generally in excellent one for many uses. Whenever linearity holds, we are entitled to use the extremely powerful concept of superposition . This means that when many waves pass through the same region, their effects are simply additive, each continues to behave just as if the others w