Not sure the best place to post this, thought subwoofers would be close because Small's papers are about low-frequency response of woofers. I was hoping that someone could help me out. Acoustics and electrical engineering are not my background.
I found a problem that I can't get around in R. H. Small's "Direct-Radiator Loudspeaker System Analysis" paper.
Equation (9) has an "s" in the denominator that I think should not be there. I solved his circuit in Fig. 3 for Uo, and I get his expression but I have no s in my the solution. If there is an s there, he should have included it in the G(s) term. But then G(s) would not be the lowpass filter transfer function.
Between equations (10) and (11) he writes, "Eqs. (5) and (9) may be combined with Eq. (7) to yield..." I think this should instead have stated "Eqs. (3) and (9) may be combined with Eq. (7) to yield..." Equation (5) seems to have nothing to do with equation (7), and I think he meant equation (3) instead of equation (5).
When I try to obtain Equation (11) by combining (3) and (5) with (7), I obtain his expression for (7), except that I have an omega^2 (omega=frequency in radians/sec) in the numerator which he does not have. A look at equations (2), (3), (6), and (7) seems to show that there must be an omega^2 in his expression for efficiency in equation (7).
I googled for errata for these papers, but could not find anything.
I found a problem that I can't get around in R. H. Small's "Direct-Radiator Loudspeaker System Analysis" paper.
Equation (9) has an "s" in the denominator that I think should not be there. I solved his circuit in Fig. 3 for Uo, and I get his expression but I have no s in my the solution. If there is an s there, he should have included it in the G(s) term. But then G(s) would not be the lowpass filter transfer function.
Between equations (10) and (11) he writes, "Eqs. (5) and (9) may be combined with Eq. (7) to yield..." I think this should instead have stated "Eqs. (3) and (9) may be combined with Eq. (7) to yield..." Equation (5) seems to have nothing to do with equation (7), and I think he meant equation (3) instead of equation (5).
When I try to obtain Equation (11) by combining (3) and (5) with (7), I obtain his expression for (7), except that I have an omega^2 (omega=frequency in radians/sec) in the numerator which he does not have. A look at equations (2), (3), (6), and (7) seems to show that there must be an omega^2 in his expression for efficiency in equation (7).
I googled for errata for these papers, but could not find anything.
post up the actual equations. I'm not an electrical engineer either, but I'm pretty good at algebraic manipulations.
Here's a link to this paper:
http://documents.jordan-usa.com/Fam...rect-Radiator-Loudspeaker-System-Analysis.pdf
http://documents.jordan-usa.com/Fam...rect-Radiator-Loudspeaker-System-Analysis.pdf
Equation 11 is correct, and so is equation 9.
equation 9 has an s in the denominator because it is a relation in volume velocity, if you multiply both sides by s, you get a relation in acceleration, and sound pressure is proportional to acceleration.
equation 9 has an s in the denominator because it is a relation in volume velocity, if you multiply both sides by s, you get a relation in acceleration, and sound pressure is proportional to acceleration.
Yes, equations 9 and 11 are correct. I found my mistake, I fouled up the algebra in solving for eq. 9. That s in the denominator of eq. 9 turns out to be the key to getting rid of the omega^2 which shows up when obtaining eq. 11.
Small's reference to eq. 5 when arriving at eq. 11 should definitely have been a reference to eq. 3 and not eq. 5.
Small's reference to eq. 5 when arriving at eq. 11 should definitely have been a reference to eq. 3 and not eq. 5.
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