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Thomas R Moore1, Daniel W Zietlow, Christopher W Gorman

  • 1Department of Physics, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida 32789, USA. tmoore@rollins.edu

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|February 12, 2009
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