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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2013 Jul;34(0 1):9S–16S. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31829d5a14

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Volume velocity is the rate-of-change of the volume displaced by the back and forth motion of a surface in a constrained space. Inside the tube is a hypothetical surface (the black vertical line) made up of acoustic particles moving with similar amplitude and phase. The sound induced back and forth motion of the surface sweeps out a volume. The volume velocity is the change in this volume with time.