Man you always want to compound the problem! What if I wanted to judge the joules Judge Jules burned in a 2 hour DJ set? No-one would know what I was talking about!
I think pitch has the worst definition of "That element of sound with which two sounds can be ordered with one having a higher pitch than the other" or words to that effect
Hmm don't seem to be able to find the definition of loudness which makes me cringe but wikipedia has "Loudness is the quality of a sound that is the primary psychological correlate of physical strength (amplitude)." but loudness is also affected by duration and frequency as well as intensity.
And then we get to timbre...which is just an awkward percept in the first place...which I've seen definitions given as "That element of sound which can denote a difference between two sounds which are at the same pitch and loudness"
Well, perceptual qualities of a thing are going to be affected by how they're percepted. Human perception is sort of a vague and hazy thing to begin with, and all perception is affected by what was perceived in the time leading up to it and so on.
Basically it's hard to objectively quantify subjective aspects.
Many problems are solved by using SI units! We should also use centimeters for height and shoes, kilograms for groceries and our own weight, and the A series sizes for paper... oh, and also in construction materials, tools, and so on. Just saying.
Oh, on the coefficient of temperature to the calorie? I hear the definition often given that the calorie is based on one degree change at (from) standard temperature and pressure. But this is fun, because STP can mean 18 C, 20 C, 15 C, 0 C, or a few other, rarer possibilities, depending on whether you are a chemist, physicist, engineer, American, European, or so on. At least the pressure part is pretty consistent?
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and welcome to our community theater puppet show
aimed at helping YOU with the transition in this EXCITING new way of measuring how FAT you'll get!
i'd like you to meet our little friends
mallory calorie
and julius joules.
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Horrible horrible perceptive measurements.
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Hmm don't seem to be able to find the definition of loudness which makes me cringe but wikipedia has "Loudness is the quality of a sound that is the primary psychological correlate of physical strength (amplitude)." but loudness is also affected by duration and frequency as well as intensity.
And then we get to timbre...which is just an awkward percept in the first place...which I've seen definitions given as "That element of sound which can denote a difference between two sounds which are at the same pitch and loudness"
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Basically it's hard to objectively quantify subjective aspects.
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Oh, on the coefficient of temperature to the calorie? I hear the definition often given that the calorie is based on one degree change at (from) standard temperature and pressure. But this is fun, because STP can mean 18 C, 20 C, 15 C, 0 C, or a few other, rarer possibilities, depending on whether you are a chemist, physicist, engineer, American, European, or so on. At least the pressure part is pretty consistent?
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http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/the-all-new-si-units-of-measurement/
*standard intuitive ;)
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