7474 (v.5) Marine Acoustics 103

Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

2.0

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Lecture:

2 x 1 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Basic concepts of sound propagation. Field trip - Canning River - noise measurements, tone source measurements using different tone frequencies, towing experiment to observe the variations of sound level with changing distance between the source and receivers. Device for generating and receiving sound in water. Noise in the ocean. Ray acoustics and principles of refraction. Deep water propagation. Wave acoustics. Shallow water acoustics. Bioacoustics - sound production and reception and use of sound by marine animals. Impact of anthropogenic noise on marine animals. Applications to environmental assessment and marine resource estimation. Defence applications of marine acoustics. Commercial applications of underwater acoustics.

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Field of Education:

010700 Earth Sciences (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y	Y
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External