Talk:Acoustic theory

I would like to commend the author(s) of this rather original entry. In the many theoretical acoustics textbooks that I have used, I've never seen these assumptions put together so explicitly (even though they are always employed in the standard derivations of linear acoustics). The main reference used here, Reynolds (1981), does indeed spell out the assumptions in enumerated lists in the beginning of the relevant chapters, but I'm not aware that this has been formalized ever to the extent that people within the field would refer to it as "acoustic theory" in the way that the author did here, following Reynold's lead. This is very much unlike, for example, how quantum mechanics theory is presented in standard texts, where there several axioms / postulates are presented upfront and the rest follows from there. Acoustic theory is a melange of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and classical mechanics (at the very least), so it is less self-contained than some other fields. So in a way, I think that the value of this Wikipedia entry is larger than may seem to the occasional reader and may even constitute an important overarching contribution to how the field is taught. If anybody has a different impression, then I'll be happy to know.

Either way, great work to all that were involved and thank you.

A. W., Sydney. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.203.222 (talk) 14:42, 16 August 2018 (UTC) [reply ]

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