The far-field pressure is derived in the same way as that for a resilient disk in free space in Section 13.8 and is the sum of the pressures radiated from each individual ring
The normalized directivity pattern 20 log
10|
D(
θ)|
−
20 log
10|
D(0)| is plotted in
Fig. 15.13. The on-axis response is given by
which is plotted in
Fig. 15.14 using the quantities shown in
Table 15.2, where the total delay is 255
μs and the width of each ring is 2
cm.