Noise Control of the COE building in SLSU Lucban

Group members:
Ballesteros, John Dale
De los Santos, Adrian
De Luna Edrian
Macawili, Russel
Monrteser , Gideon

Background of the study

Noise that made by the students inside and outside the classroom has always been a
problem in school specifically in SLSU, COE (College of Engineering) building.
Active noise control (ANC), also known as noise cancellation, or active noise reduction
(ANR), is a method for reducing unwanted sound by the addition of a second sound specifically
designed to cancel the first (Active Noise Control, December 2005).
Sound is a pressure wave, which consists of a compression phase and a rarefaction phase.
A noise-cancellation speaker emits a sound wave with the same amplitude but with inverted
phase (also known as antiphase) to the original sound. The waves combine to form a new wave,
in a process called interference, and effectively cancel each other out - an effect which is called
phase cancellation.
Modern active noise control is generally achieved through the use of analog circuits or
digital signal processing. Adaptive algorithms are designed to analyze the waveform of the
background aural or nonaural noise, then based on the specific algorithm generate a signal that

will either phase shift or invert the polarity of the original signal. This inverted signal (in
antiphase) is then amplified and a transducer creates a sound wave directly proportional to the
amplitude of the original waveform, creating destructive interference. This effectively reduces
the

volume

of

the

perceivable

noise.

A noise-cancellation speaker may be co-located with the sound source to be attenuated. In

this case it must have the same audio power level as the source of the unwanted sound.
Alternatively, the transducer emitting the cancellation signal may be located at the location
where sound attenuation is wanted (e.g. the user's ear). This requires a much lower power level
for cancellation but is effective only for a single user. Noise cancellation at other locations is
more difficult as the three-dimensional wave fronts of the unwanted sound and the cancellation
signal could match and create alternating zones of constructive and destructive interference,
reducing noise in some spots while doubling noise in others. In small enclosed spaces (e.g. the
passenger compartment of a car) global noise reduction can be achieved via multiple speakers
and feedback microphones, and measurement of the modal responses of the enclosure
(Evaluation of an Improved Active Noise Reduction Microphone using Speech Intelligibility and
Performance-Based Testing, n.d.).
Noise control tends to reduce noise made by students or to reduce the impact of that
noise, whether outdoors or indoors. Students as well as the sound outside the room, like events in
the gym or covered court, may generate noise that consistently affects the lecture and discussion
of teacher to her/his students, how the student study and seatwork, quizzes and examination of
the students.
The researcher's personal experience inside and outside the classroom would tell how
noise affect the students attitude in the teaching-learning. From 2 years of experiencing the noise

where it affect the attitudes of the students in their studies. Every time the researchers experience
the noise made by the waiting student outside it tends to destruct or lose their focus with their
studies. In most instances where the researchers are taking quizzes and seatwork the outside
affects their performance in the quizzes and seatwork and they are panicking and lose their
concentration.
From those incident encountered by the researchers they presumed that noise could have
an effect on the attitude of the students in their performance in their studies but noise control
helps to lessen the noise inside and outside the classroom. That's why the researchers come up
with this kind of study. They would like to found out if the noise control of the COE (College of
Engineering) building is effective, how it affects the performance of the student in their studies.

Source:
Active

noise

control.

Date

retrived:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

January

22,

2015

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