The following is a list of errata that appear in early printings of the 4th edition of Fundamentals of Acoustics. If you have found additional errata or if you have any message for the authors, please send it to:
ACCUMULATED ERRATA FOR KINSLER ACOUSTICS 4/E
032 Prob 1.7.4(b) replace + sign following the cos expression with - sign
033 Prob 1.9.2 replace cos wt with exp(jwt)
replace cos(wtQ) with exp[j(wtQ)]
036 Prob 1.15.9(d) DwDt = 4p
089 Prob 3.8.2(c) replace parallel with transverse
112 Prob 4.11.7 Insert symmetric before normal modes
205 Prob 7.1.5C(b) replace , impedance, with , reactance,
206 Prob 7.4.3 delete all of part (b) and the designation (a) for the first part
206 Prob 7.4.6C(b) replace Determine with Plot
208 Prob 7.8.10C delete unshaded
208 Prob 7.8.11 formula for H(θ): in the numerator, move N to inside [ ]
in the denominator, move N to outside [ ] to premultiply sin
243 Prob 8.7.2(e) replace 37% with 10%
244 Prob 8.7.3(c) remove , and insert and between ppt and 35
remove , and 70 ppt from the problem statement
267 Prob 9.4.1(a) replace radii with radius
270 Prob 9.8.9 replace (a) with (a)
270 Prob 9.9.2 insert (a) before If at start of problem statement
270 Prob 9.9.3 replace (a) with (a)
300 Prob 10.10.9 replace 0.5 m with 0.6 m in the first line (only)
311 (11.5.5,6,&7) replace t with t (lc regular italic tau) in 4 places (5:1, 6:1, 7:2 successively)
331 Prob 11.7.2 replace wcr with wcb
349 (12.9.2) 1st eq, replace w in exponent with (bold upright) w
352 (12.9.14) same correction as for (12.9.2) on page 349
419 (14.9.3) replace subscript on M with lower case italic o
434 Prob 14.13.1(a) replace re with re
471 Prob 15.3.2(a) replace 1 m with 1 km
474 Prob 15.8.6 replace w with wt
505 Prob 17.1.3 insert with overpressure 800 mbar before travels
replace 20oC with 22oC
508 5 l from bot replace (32oC) with (32oF) in expression for 1 in. Hg
511 equation for Y0 last term, numerator, replace 24 with z4
512 8 l from bot replace inflection points with extrema
520 3 l from top replace (terminal) A with A (italic)
523 (A9.5) top line replace + with - (top equation only)
531 (A11.14) remove . (period) between A and 11
534 Prob 1.15.1 replace u with U(t)
534 Prob 1.15.9 replace w with w (italic lc double-u)
535 Prob 3.6.3 replace Zm with Zm0 (add upright subscript zero)
535 Prob 3.6.5 replace tan kl with tan kL
536 Prob 5.14.7 delete the C. following the problem number
537 Prob 6.4.3 replace 13.5o with 11.9o and 0.84 with 0.83
537 Prob 7.4.3 delete all of part (b) and the designation (a) for the first part
538 Prob 9.3.5C replace 4.62 with 462
538 Prob 9.9.15 replace 80 with 120
540 Prob 12.8.3 in part (c), replace 47 with 12.5 m, 47
542 Prob 17.5.3 in part (b), replace ktonne with tonne
in part (d), replace 3.36 with 3.3
3rd endpage R in the symbol for range rate should be in italics (overdot remains)
The following were sent to Wiley around 22 April 2000
009 (1.6.4) & (1.6.5) Delete j in the exponents (2 deletions)
035 Prob 1.12.4C 1st line delete equivalent
2nd line, insert driving between the and displacement
170 Prob. 6.8.7C 4th line, replace 10d with 10H
282 Fig 10.6.2 Relabel the vertical axes to read Each side of (10.6.8)
297 Prob 10.3.4C replace (10.3.9) with (10.3.8)
298 Prob 10.6.4C(b) delete first six from between the and resonances
300 Prob 10.10.14C 1st line, replace 25 cm with 25 cm2
3rd line, insert to the pair between reactance and for
309 last line change replace to estimate
under the square root, change s 2S,N to s 2N
356 Prob. 12.3.6 replace Fig. 8.6.3 with Fig. 8.6.2
388 Prob 13.3.2 3rd line replace (c) with (d)
4th line replace (d) with (e)
538 Prob 9.9.15 replace (b) with (c)
The following were sent to Wiley around 20 Jan 2001
32 Prob 1.7.6C 3rd line, replace displacement with force
35 Prob 1.13.3 1st line, replace vibrations with phasors
last line, replace sin(Dw/2) with cos[(Dw/2)t]
478 Sect. 16.1 1st line, replace waver with waves
534 Prob 1.7.1(a) Replace j with q