Sound Level Distance Attenuation (Inverse Square Law) implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-clean

Evidence ID

t2-013

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

The specification does not explicitly state that both reference and target distances must be strictly positive. A zero reference distance produces division by zero and an undefined logarithm, so an implementation without domain validation can fail or emit a non-finite result.

Required corrections

No binding erratum is attached to this unique-name record. Implementers must still preserve the declared units, domain, and failure behavior.

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "reference_spl_db_spl": 74,
    "reference_distance_m": 2,
    "target_distance_m": 8
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "target_spl_db_spl": 61.96
  },
  "working": "d2/d1 = 8/2 = 4. log10(4) = 0.60206. Distance loss = 20 x 0.60206 = 12.0412 dB. SPL2 = 74 - 12.0412 = 61.9588 dB SPL, approximately 61.96 dB SPL."
}

Other records

Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche2/tranche2-results.json