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What equalizes air pressure?

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What pressures rises and falls with the phases of breathing but eventually equalizes with the atmospheric pressure?

Intrapulmonary Pressure


What uses air pressure to work?

air


What part of the ear pops?

Ears pop because the atmospheric pressure becomes greater or less than the pressure inside the ear. While the ear drum forms an air-tight seal between the middle ear and the outside atmosphere, the eustachian tubes allow air pressure to equalize between the environment and the middle ear.Your ears pop in air planes because the air high above the surface of Earth is less dense than air near the surface.As you ascend in an airplane and the air pressure decreases, the air trapped in your inner ear will push your eardrums outward.Your body equalizes the pressure between your inner ear and the atmosphere by allowing some air from your inner ear to escape. The air escapes through the Eustachian tubes, two small channels that connect the inner ears to the throat on each side.When these channels open, you feel the pressure release and you hear the change because it's in your ear. This is the "pop."On the way down, the air pressure increases, and the extra pressure pushes the eardrums inward. The pressure will, again, have to reach an equilibrium.The air pressure becomes less as you go higher and higher due to gravity, air etc, therefore our bodies automatically adjust to compensate for this. The "popping" is sort of like a valve which adjusts the air pressure in our ears.


Great masses of air molecules pushing down from adove?

It is AIR PRESSURE!!


What is air moves from a point at which air pressure?

high pressure to low pressure

Related questions

What equalize the pressure within the ears?

The Eustachian tube equalizes air pressure in the ears


What equalizes air pressure in respiratory system?

The auditory (eustachian) tube


Does a home air conditioning compressor have an internal relief valve that equalizes pressure across the compressor?

yes


What does air leave a tire when the tire valve is opened?

Air leaves a tire when the valve is opened due to the pressure difference. Since the tire has more pressure than the air outside, the tire air will escape until the pressure equalizes.


What pressure rises and falls with the phases of breathing but eventually equalizes with the atmospheric pressure?

Intrapulmonary Pressure


What pressures rises and falls with the phases of breathing but eventually equalizes with the atmospheric pressure?

Intrapulmonary Pressure


What are the tubes that equalize pressure in the eardrum called?

The ear has a tube that equalizes the pressure in the eardrum. These tubes are known as the eustacean tubes.


How does pressure play a part in buoyancy?

The pressure equalizes between a "bouyed" body, and the "bouying" fluid, such that the pressure of the fluid, integrated over the wetted surface, equals the weight of the body.


When you drive down a mountain what makes your ears experience those uncomfortable sensations?

Your ears pop on a mountain when there's a difference in air pressure between your inner ear and the air outside. The air in your inner ear exchanges pretty slowly. And since the air is much thinner at the top of the mountain than it is near the bottom, if you go down quickly enough (like by driving) the pressures can't equalize gradually. The higher pressure air at the bottom of the mountain presses on your eardrums until they "pop" and the pressure equalizes. That can hurt!


What is the function of the Eustacian tube?

It equalizes the pressure between the middle ear and the atmosphere. This is what causes your ears to "pop" when you change altitude.


Why does Fiji water freeze instantly like corona beer?

Because when you tap it semi-hard, the pressure equalizes just like in a beer


What temperature is a bike tire deflated?

Depends. If it's been left deflated for some time, it'll be at ambient temperature(=the same temperature as the surroundings). If you start with an inflated tire, then let all air out in one go, then the expansion of the released air will make the tire a little cooler as the pressure equalizes.