: stands for the sound energy density.

Sound power level

Sound power level (SWL) or acoustic power level is a logarithmic measure of the power of a sound relative to a reference value.
Sound power level, denoted and measured in dB, is defined by:

where
: is the sound power;
: is the reference sound power;
: is the neper;
: is the bel;

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