Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 7 - Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• 71 - Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Related Sciences
• 40. - Physical Sciences
• 40.08 - Physics

40.0809 - Acoustics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of sound, and the properties and behaviour of acoustic wave phenomena under different conditions. These programs include courses in wave theory, the acoustic wave equation, energy transformation, vibration phenomena, sound reflection and transmission, scattering and surface wave phenomena, singularity expansion theory, ducting, and applications to specific research problems such as underwater acoustics, crystallography, and health diagnostics.

• Example Program Names:

  • Acoustical physics
  • Acoustics physics

• Exclusion

  • Sound engineering(10.0203)
  • Acoustic engineering(14.9999)