Engineers combine connected parts into a single lumped system response
Evidence
One of the engineer’s favorite tricks is lumping properties of objects that are connected together, combining their individual responses into a response of a single system. We will do this in chapter 10 with a mass and spring—the lumped impedance is a sum of the two impedances; the system mass + spring can be considered a single object with a new, frequency-dependent impedance. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 552
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Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Explains the lumped-impedance method used throughout acoustics modeling.
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