Reverberation chambers used for acoustical measurements should have completely random sound fields. We denote by R the cross-correlation coefficient for the sound pressures at two points a distance r apart. R = 〈p1p2〉Av/(〈p12〉Av〈p22〉Av)12, where p1 is the sound pressure at one point, p2 that at the other, and the angular brackets denote long time averages. In a random sound field, R = (sinkr)/kr, where k = 2π/(the wavelength of the sound). An instrument for measuring and recording R as a function of time is described. A feature of this instrument is the use of a recorder's servomechanism to measure the ratio of two dc voltages. The results of correlation measurements in reverberant sound fields are given.

The elastic constants and static strains of a solid subjected to large hydrostatic pressures can be deduced from measurements of resonant frequencies (or transit times) for ultrasonic waves in specimens of suitable crystallographic orientations. The pressure changes the specimen's size, shape, and density as well as the elastic constants, and all of the effects influence the resonant frequencies. An algorithm for separating out the effects due to variations in elastic constants from the effects due to static strains is presented and applied to cubic crystals and hexagonal crystals, these structures being of immediate interest to investigators concerned with the properties of metals. The results apply also to isotropic and transversely isotropic solids. The only measurements needed while the specimen is under hydrostatic pressure are resonant frequencies (or transit times). Also required are the size and density at zero pressure, or the elastic constants at zero pressure.

Seismic waves caused by earthquakes radiate infrasound into the atmosphere as they proceed over the Earth's surface. Several instances of such sound waves radiated locally by seismic waves passing through the Washington, D.C., area have been observed at the infrasonic station there. A notable instance was the great Montana earthquake of 1959 August 18. Measurements of the radiated infrasound gave data on the seismic waves, including their travel times, local speeds, directions of travel, amplitudes, and waveforms.

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