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A recording engineer is in a soundproof room that is {eq}44\ \rm{dB} {/eq} quieter than outside. If the sound intensity in the room is {eq}1.2 \times 10^{-10}\ \rm{W/m}^2 {/eq}, what is the intensity outside?
Decibels
Decibels are an acoustic comparison measure that determines the relationship on the logarithmic scale between the measured intensity and a reference intensity, commonly attributed to the human listening threshold. Mathematically this relationship is presented as,
{eq}\beta_0 = 10log\left( \dfrac{I}{I_0} \right) {/eq}
Here,
{eq}I = \text{Intensity}\\ I_0 = \text{Reference Intensity} {/eq}
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View this answerThe sound Intensity inside the room is
{eq}I_i = 1.2 \times 10^{-10} W/m^2 {/eq}
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