COLEGIO DE DAGUPAN
Final Examination
Broadcast Engineering
Name: Cacho,Kathleen Joy C. Rating: ____________________
Course Year and Block: BS-ECE V Date: ______________________
Subject Code & Title: Broadcast Engineering
I. Multiple Choice Questions
B 1. Assume the speed of sound is 1,130 ft/s. What frequency has a
wavelength of 1 foot, 1.5 inches?
a. 500 Hz
b. 1000 Hz
c. 1500 Hz
d. 2000 Hz
C 2. The wire must bring 100 average watts to a 4 ohms loudspeaker must
safely carry what rms current?
a. 2 A
b. 4 A
c. 5 A
d. 6 A
B3. A church has an internal volume of 90.05 ft^3 (2550 m^3). When it
contains customary sabine sof absorption (186 metric sabines), what will
be its reverberation time in seconds.
a. 2.0
b. 2.2
c. 2.5
d. 3.0
A4. If the RMs sound pressure is 5 lb/ft^2, what is the sound pressure
level?
a. 7.6 dB
b. 108 dB
c. 88 dB
d. 10 dB
B 5. Speed that is faster than speed of sound.
a. Ultrasonic
b. Supersonic
c. Subsonic
d. Transonic
A6. An instrument designed to measure a frequency-weighted value of the
sound pressure level.
a. Sound-level meter
b. Transducer
c. Sound pressure meter
d. Sound analyzer
A7. A unit of noisiness related to the perceived noise level
a. Noy
b. Sone
c. dB
d. phone
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Broadcast Engineering
C8. An agreed set of empirical curves relating octave-band sound pressure
level to the center frequency of the octave bands
a. C-message weighting curves
b. Psophometric weighting curves
c. Noise rating curves
d. F1A weighting curves
B9. The frequency of free vibration
a. Resonant frequency
b. Natural frequency
c. Center frequency
d. Normal frequency
A10. The transmission of sound from one room to an adjacent room, via
common walls, floors or ceilings.
a. Flanking transmission
b. Refraction
c. Reflection
d. Reverberation
D11. The sound power level of a certain jet plane flying at a height of
1km is 160 dB (re10^-12 W). Find the maximum sound pressure level on the
ground directly below the flight path assuming that the aircraft radiates
sound equally in all directions.
a. 59.1 dB
b. 69.1 dB
c. 79.1 dB
d. 89.1 dB
B12. Speaker is a device that
a. Converts sound waves into current and voltage
b. Converts current variations into sound waves
c. Converts electrical energy to mechanical energy
d. Converts electrical energy to electromagnetic energy
C13. Which type of microphone operates on the principle that the
electrical resistance of carbon granules varies as the pressure on the
granules vary?
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Carbon
d. Ribbon-type
C14. Bass response is
a. Maximum high frequency response
b. Emphasizing the high audio frequency
c. Bypassing high audio frequencies
d. Bypassing low audio frequencies
D15. Pure tone of sound used as standard on testing
a. 1 Hz
b. 10 Hz
c. 100 Hz
d. 1000 Hz
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Final Examination
Broadcast Engineering
A16. ___________ is early reflection of sound.
a. Echo
b. Reverberation
c. Pure sound
d. Intelligible sound
A17. Noise reduction system used for film sound in movie.
a. Dolby
b. dBa
c. dBx
d. dBk
D18. What is the sound energy per unit area at right angles to the
propagation direction per unit time?
a. Loudness
b. Coherence
c. Sound pressure
d. Sound intensity
D19. ________ is the unit of loudness level of a sound.
a. Sone
b. Decibel
c. Mel
d. Phon
C20. ____________ is the average rate of transmission of sound energy in a
given direction through a cross-section area of 1 sqm at right angles to
the direction.
a. Sound pressure
b. Loudness
c. Sound intensity
d. Pressure variation
D21. What is the unit of pitch?
a. Sone
b. Phon
c. Decibel
d. Mel
22. A measure of the intensity of sound in comparison to another sound
intensity.
a. Phon
b. Decibel
c. Pascal
d. Watts
C23. Sound wave has two main characteristics which are
a. Highness and loudness
b. Tone and loudness
c. Pitch and loudness
d. Rarefraction and compression
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B24. Which type of microphone operated by electromagnetic induction that
generates an output signal voltage?
a. Carbon
b. Dynamic
c. Crystal
d. Condenser
D25. The exciter lamp in the optical sound part of a film projector draws
5 A at 10 V. How much power in watts is this light consuming?
a. 10 watts
b. 20 watts
c. 40 watts
d. 50 watts
C26. A measure of threshold hearing, expressed in decibels relative to a
specified standard of normal hearing.
a. Hearing loss
b. Sensation level
c. Hearing level
d. Sound pressure level
A27. A certain machine with a slightly out-of-balance motor rotating at
1800/min is fixed on a perfectly elastic mount with a static compression
of 2.50 mm. Calculate the resonant frequency of mount.
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
D28. Calculate the lowest resonant frequency for a brick partition 120 mm
thick, 4 m by 2 m in area with longitudinal wave velocity of 2350 m/s.
(Assume that it is supported at its edges.)
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
B29. Velocity of sound in air.
a. 300 m/s
b. 330 m/s
c. 1130 m/s
d. 344 m/s
B30. What is the expected critical frequency for a 120 mm thick brick
wall? Assume a longitudinal wave velocity in brick of 2350 m/s and that
the velocity of sound in air is 330 m/s.
a. 114.5 Hz
b. 214.5 Hz
c. 314.5 Hz
d. 414.5 Hz
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