Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.
Acoustics is the science of sound and its properties, including how sound travels, reflects, and is perceived, but this definition is incomplete without the concept of music.
External reference — all senses of the word “acoustics” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.