Questions tagged [noise]
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Noise cancelling speakers to cancel sound in the room [duplicate]
A thought of mine from class, where not everyone is the "silent kid" type. The teacher would very often need to shout to keep the class barely quiet enough for the students who actually are paying ...
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Destructive Interference applied to ElectroMagnetic Waves?
For active noise cancelling (in for example headphones) a process called 'destructive interference' is used.
Since Electromagnetic radiation can be described as a wave, could the same process (...
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How to determine at what point regeneration of a signal is necessary?
I have a "homework" question that has raised some doubts in my mind about when regeneration of a signal is necessary and whether it can be determined from a given SNR (signal to noise ratio) alone or ...
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How to measure Johnson Noise precisely experimentally? [closed]
I want measure Johnson Noise across a resistor having certain over the certain range of frequency or bandwidth practically. I am starting from scratch, how can I build circuitry and instrumentation so ...
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What would motivate choosing between an avalanche or Zener diode? [closed]
If I wanted to produce an analog number generator using reverse-biase diode breakdown, what kind of things should I consider when choosing whether to use an avalanche or Zener diode?
For instance, ...
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Can a wind turbine be audible at 3.5 kilometres?
Here is the link to the research supposedly claiming that wind turbines can be heard 3.5 kilometres away inside a house 16% to 22% of the time. The article further claims on occasions audible noise ...
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Simulate Background Gamma Radiation for Localization [closed]
I'm working on a gamma radiation source localization project. The gamma radiation measurement model is:
$\lambda_k = \frac{I}{(x_s - x_k)^2 + (y_s - x_y)^2} +\lambda_b$.
Where $\lambda_k$ is the $...
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Does any practical system actually use the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key distribution mechanism?
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Secure_communications_using_the_KLJN_scheme describes the Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key distribution scheme, which is based on two switches and an ...
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Noise generated by ball impacting a rigid obstacle [closed]
How can I estimate the noise of an elastic non-deformable ball that hits an elastic plate that is simply supported?
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Noise perception by humans - one vs two of the same noisy appliance - will the noise be “double”?
If I have a clothes washer in a room versus two of the same machine making the same noise, will the noise level be perceived by humans as twice the level it was before?
I'm pretty sure sound is in a ...
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Validity of Johnson noise model in current through vacuum
The Wikipedia page says Johnson noise is the electronic noise generated by the thermal agitation of the charge carriers (usually the electrons) inside an electrical conductor at equilibrium.
I ...
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Johnson-Nyquist Noise and the Assumption of a Noiseless Load
I'm a little stuck on a subtlety of RF/microwave design that I find a bit baffling. It has to do with the convention of using of noiseless resistors as loads in circuit noise analysis. I have not yet ...
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Johnson Noise experimental measurement
How can we experimentally find out value (extent) of Johnson Noise of any resistor with certain bandwidth and teperature?
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Why doesn't stochastic resonance allow us to ignore noise?
I don't know how to formulate the question better. This question is inspired from here where the author states that satellite communication is sometimes lost when radio noise from the sun makes the ...
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Is it possible to block sound? [duplicate]
Is it possible to block/eliminate particular noise sounds with artificially generated sound waves or any other ways?
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the mechanism of sound generation of plunging jet
can anybody give me an explanation about what is the acoustic source for a plunging jet, like tap flow enter into a basin? is there any exiting theory like Lighthill theory in aero-acoustic to explain ...
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Detection of an optical noise with a photodetector, noise-equivalent power (NEP)
I am trying to find the minimum power that can be detected by a photodetector for which I know its noise-equivalent power (NEP).
The standard formulas are:
$$\mathrm{SNR} = \frac{\langle i_s^2(t)\...
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Do noise-cancelling headphones make a lot of unheard noise?
The way noise cancelling headphones work is by listening to sound, and created the inverted sound to 'cancel it out'. Doesn't this mean that the headphones create double the amount of noise, but our ...
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Why is “a very silent room” louder than “leaf noise” / “breathing noise”?
I recently was at night in my bed room and used the Schallmessung Android App (on a Samsung S7). It showed 20 dB while laying on some furniture. I could not hear anything; to me, the room was ...
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Non-Markovian noise coupled to atomic system
I want to calculate the density matrix element's average over all the realization of Gaussian colored noise when the atomic system is coupled to the said noise. I know how to do it for atomic energy ...
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Question on the correlation function of dichotomous Markov noise
Setup:
A two-state switching process $I(t)$ between two values $\Delta_1$ and $\Delta_2$ with rates $\alpha$ and $\beta$ can be represented by the transition probabilities
$$ P_{ij}(t) = \frac{1}{\...
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Calculate dark noise in CCD given a pixel's counts for two exposures
Suppose I took two pictures with the same CCD camera in totally dark room.
The first picture was exposed for 1 microsecond, and the pixel given was 20 scales of grey.
The second picture was exposed ...
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Exponential decay and growth oscillations at beginning and end of Fourier transform of data
I have some data from an photo-detector, which I think should correspond to white noise, but when I plot the Fourier transform of the data, I get a plot with exponential decay at the beginning and ...
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Identify reasons for laser intensity fluctuation
I got a Mitsubishi LPC-826 laser diode (single mode) with laser driver iC-HG. There is no cooling device, but data was captured after 30 mins switching on (which should be temporally stable). The beam ...
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Shot-Noise in optical detectors
I'm somehow struggling with the definition of the SNR (S/N) of optical detectors when it comes to shot-noise. I found some literature where it is defined as follows
$$SNR = N/\sqrt{\bar{N}} = \sqrt{\...
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Do planes have to be noisy?
I tend to think of noise as an undesirable waste of energy because the generator was not designed for that purpose. But that doesnt mean this waste can be avoided.
So I wonder how much of this noise ...
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Is thermal (Johnson) noise intrinsically stochastic?
Thermal (Johnson) noise is caused by electron collitions. Since movement of electrons is intrinsically stochastic according to Quantum Mechanics (assuming the Copenaghen interpretation), does this ...
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Unexpected wavelength jumps in a laser observed: a fundamental noise source in VCSELs?
I observed an unexpected signal while developing an interferometric sensor using a VCSEL laser. In order to debug this noise I designed the following device that converts minute changes in the laser's ...
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Unknown pulses from SiPM without any source or detector?
I have a SiPM set up with its PCB, no amplification at all, reading out to an oscilloscope. If I supply 29.8 V, which is the maximum power (with overvoltage), I get some random peaks on the ...
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Is there a physical limit to silent quadcopters, and what are the parameters?
Quadcopters can now navigate fairly well indoors. One could imagine many possible uses, including telepresence and security, but which are limited because of the loud noise.
Assuming zero 'motor ...
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Radiation Pressure Noise in Gravitational Wave Detection
I am trying to work out where equation 9 comes from in Martynov et al. (2016), who discuss the radiation pressure noise in the LIGO detector.
$$L(f) = \frac{2}{cM\pi^2 f^2} \left(h \nu G_{-} P_{\rm ...
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Unit strength Wiener process
I am not much aware of Brownian motion and/or the Wiener process. Recently I have been reading a research paper where they mention a variable $dW$ as a "unit strength Wiener process". My question is ...
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About sound of non-existent channels on FM
Well, I have learnt about resonant frequency due to series capacitor and inductor, and how the current at resonant frequency is highest, but i am confused about the sound, which appears even when no ...
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Perfect sound-canceling devices
Noise-canceling headphones can reduce a lot of ambient sound, but they are not 100% perfect. (Especially in the human vocal range.)
Is there any physical principle preventing the creation of perfect ...
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Can one formulate a fluctuation-dissipation theorem in presence of non-Gaussian noise sources?
The fluctuation dissipation theorem relates the linear response of a system to Gaussian fluctuations. The natural question that comes to my mind is the possible derivation of an analogous FDT in ...
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Shot noise and single photon detection
I am looking into the noise considerations of a single photon detector, specifically an avalanche detector. I am wondering if it makes sense to think about shot noise when considering a single photon.
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How do silent kettles work? [closed]
I just had to buy a new (electric jug) kettle, and as I was bugged by the loud noise the old one made I was please to see that one can now buy silent ones.
At first the new one made just the same ...
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Transition rate in systems without thermal noise
I've been lately reading about Transition State Theory (TST) and different methods to estimate the transition rates between metastable states in the context of chemical reactions using the review ...
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Estimate of the period of noisy “event counting” data
I have a set of experimental data, which come from a periodical event.
More specifically, these are detections from a single photon detector, so there is no intensity, I only have the timestamps of ...
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Noise level x amount of meters away from an outdoor singer: sphere or semi-sphere?
When computing the noise level x amount of meters away from a singer who is singing outdoors, should one rely on the standard formula
$I=\frac{P}{4πr^2}$
(and then convert 'I' into decibels)
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What is all the known information contained in thermal noise?
I've read up a little bit on thermal noise, which is an unavoidable noise in materials when $T>0K$. Thanks to this noise, by measuring the voltage across a material, it is possible to extract the ...
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Noise covariance matrix
I've been trying to understand this paper.
The paper seems to be about analyzing noise properties of a superconducting coplanar waveguide microwave resonator.
They use an IQ mixer to perform ...
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Noise reduction approaches in optical spectral measurement
I am using an optical spectrometer to measure some surfaces in the visible, and since the signal is quite noisy I wondering what would be the best way to reduce the noise.
In particular, are there ...
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Noise cancellation device for entire rooms [closed]
I recently met a group who were exploring active noise cancellation devices for entire rooms. Their approach essentially revolved around detecting incident noise on the room and blasting inverse ...
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Why a CRT TV shows B/W noise when not tuned [closed]
When an old color tube TV with no relevant digital bits in it is not tuned to any TV station, the noise is black & white. Why is the noise not all RGB?
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What is a zero dimensional stochastic system?
I happened to read a statement about Zero-dimensional stochastic systems in the context of Noise-induced phase Transitions (https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-80624-9). I am not sure what does a zero-...
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Why are the active noise cancellation headphones subjectively better in reducing “periodic” noise?
According to experience of mine and of my friends using active noise cancellation headphones, the technology is much more efficient in reducing "periodic" noise, such as humming of jet engine, fridge ...
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Balancing noise energy contributions with friction term
I'm looking for a result that would say something about the way in which to pick a proper constant $\sigma$ in generic models of the form:
$$ \ddot{x} = - \gamma \dot{x} - \nabla V(x) + \sigma \xi(t) $...
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Sudden change in noise levels [closed]
This is real life issue I am having currently and I am puzzled as to why it happened. I posted the question in the engineering section but it was put on hold as too broad. I have no other way to ...
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Converting from free field to reverberant field (Noise break out to outside)
If you have a noisy room (reverberant field) and you want to know how loud it sounds to a guy standing in the park outside how do you calculate that. I have a formula in a book about noise break-out ...
