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Lecture
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This lecture covers statistical acoustics, Sabine's law, and its application in determining the reverberation time of a room based on the absorption factors of its walls. It explains the relationship between reverberation time and absorption factors, the concept of mean free time between reflections, and the calculation of equivalent sound absorption area. Additionally, it discusses the properties of diffuse fields, the limitations of Sabine's law in non-diffuse fields, and alternative laws such as Eyring and Millington laws. The effects of losses in air and the Schroeder frequency as a threshold for diffuse sound fields are also explored.