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That's a long article. My intuition says that if a sound source produces a number of Watts per square meter, then those numbers should add up.

In fact that's what it says here:

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/richard.baker/B...

Of course assuming uncorrelated noise, as a crude approximation.



Yes, but it isn't uncorrelated noise. That's the whole problem here. Long articles are long for a reason, in this case that this is a complex issue. And prop noise is an ideal candidate for such interference.




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