Noise

=How does noise, Particularly traffic noise affect students and teachers in DIS ?=

Group members: James Bebbington, Ana Lozada, Tatenda Dzvuke, Manuel Telleria, Karim Ramadan
Research Question: How does noise (particularly traffic noise) affect Students and Teachers concentration in school? Aim: To investigate how noise affects concentration in D.I.S Hypothesis: If traffic noise affects people's concentration and more noise affects it more, then classes closer to Schüttelstrasse will be affected more.

Traffic count for 20 mins (from 11:50-12:10)

 * Böcklinstrasse || Schütelstrasse ||
 * 20 || 548 ||

Sound measuring experiment

 * =  ||= Windows open ||= Windows closed ||
 * = dB ||= 82 ||= 77 ||
 * = Hz ||= 950 ||= 500 ||

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Since the decibel scale is a logarithmic scale, a decrease of 5 dB is a lot, furthermore since high frequencies are the most directional cutting the higher frequencies decreases the distance at which the sound is heard=====