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Your inner ear has a long coil like structure full of fluid and highly sensitive hairs. Depending on which frequencies are being received depends on how far down the coil the sound resonates which in turn causes different hairs to vibrate. The hair vibrations are picked up by lots of nerves and sent the brain. Because some sounds can resonate a bunch of hairs; The brain is able to cancel out different signals, and boost signals as to get a better picture of the sounds which are really being heard.
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Why do animals hear different frequencies?
Because they have different shapes and anatomy of ears which are adapted for their environment and serve them different purposes.
Frequencies to low for people to hear are called what?
"Subaudible" frequencies.
Do all animals hear the same frequencies of sound as human do?
Some animals can hear higher frequencies than humans can. This is why animals can hear things like dog whistles, and we can't hear them. In all, animals can hear differently than humans in the way that they can hear more. Some animals can hear lower frequencies than humans can. Elephants can hear much lower frequencies than humans.
Why can some animals hear sounds that humans can not hear?
Because each animal has a different range of sensitivity for sound frequencies; also not all the human beings are identical.
Why are tones of different frequency used during hearing tests?
Simply because the human ear can detect many thousands of different frequencies (typically 50Hz to 20,000Hz) Testing someone's hearing ability over a range of frequencies determines whether they can hear the normal spectrum of sound or not. As we get older - our hearing starts to fade - and we no longer hear the higher or low frequencies at the edge of the normal range.
Frequencies too high pitched for the human ear to hear?
Sound waves too high for humans to hear are called: ultrasonic
What is the range of frequency that humans can hear?
the range of sound frequencies that humans can hear is about0to200Hz
What do you hear when two almost identical frequencies are sounded together?
You hear 'beats', or pulses, and these pulses happen at a frequency which is the difference between the frequencies of the nearly identical tones.
Why do Electromagnetic waves have different positions on the electromagnetic spectrum?
Different frequencies, like the different positions of the keys on a piano have different frequencies. The winding of an electromagnetic produces different frequencies at different levels, But we do not have any equipment to measure frequencies that small
What causes them to have different frequencies on a violin?
the different tensions of the different strings of violin are responsible for different frequencies.
Since the different kinds of waves have different lengths they also have different?
frequencies.
How does a speaker vibrate at different frequencies at the same time?
An infinite number of sounds can be mixed together into a single sound wave. The different frequencies don't matter, unless they are specific frequencies that cancel each other out. You'll notice that, even though you have only two ears, you can still hear all those sounds at the same time.
