If you’ve ever lived in an apartment, then you know that sometimes you can hear sound from the upstairs neighbors: kid feet pounding on your ceiling as they run back and forth, furniture legs scraping against the floor overhead, or boots pacing back and forth late into the night. Much of the sound that passes between floors in a building is impact noise, that is, noise caused by the impact of an object against the floor or ceiling.
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2020