Open Educational Resources

Welcome to the pyfar open educational resources on acoustics, a collection of Jupyter notebooks with coding assignments. If you are a student, you can check out and download the notebooks directly below. They contain various acoustics assignments without solutions. If you are a teacher who wants to access solution notebooks or contribute an assignment, please refer to the contributing guidelines.

Assignments on pyfar packages

pyfar challenge

Virtual Acoustic Reality (Audio Communication Group, TU Berlin)

HRTFs: Reading and Inspecting

Binaural vs. Stereo Audio

HRTFs: Identification and Normalization

Local HRTF interpolation

Spherical Harmonics HRTF interpolation

Vector-Based Amplitude Panning (VBAP)

Room Simulation: Image Source Model for a Shoebox Room

Virtual Acoustics Lab (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Assignment 1: Sound Propagation Under Free Field Conditions

Assignment 2: VBAP and HRTF

Assignment 3: Ambisonics

Assignment 4: Early Reflections and Wave Domain Modeling

Assignment 5: Artificial Reverberation

The assignments are accompanied by a web handbook that provides the necessary theoretical background.

Architectural Acoustics (TU/e)

Room Acoustics: Modal shapes and eigenfunctions

Room Acoustics: Image sources

Room Acoustics: Measurement of Reverberation Time

Building Acoustics: Sound insulation measurements

Building Acoustics: Sound insulation predictions