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The fleshy part of ear, the pinna, collects the sound. The sound wave then travels through the auditory canal which funnels the sound to the ear drum causing it to vibrate. The ear drum then amplifies the sound by vibration of bones. It is in the middle ear where sound energy is converted into mechanical energy. The cochlea in the inner ear converts the vibrations into electrical impulses before sending signals to the brain. The brain then interprets the impulses as sound.

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How do sound waves travel through the ear and enable us to hear?

Sound waves travel through the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate. These vibrations are then transmitted through the middle ear bones to the cochlea in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea, tiny hair cells convert the vibrations into electrical signals that are sent to the brain, allowing us to perceive sound.


How do we hear sound?

Sound waves enter the outer ear and travel through the ear canal to the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. These vibrations are then transmitted through the middle ear to the inner ear, where they are converted into electrical signals that are sent to the brain via the auditory nerve for processing, allowing us to perceive sound.


Why do I hear a rumbling sound in my ear?

The rumbling sound you hear in your ear may be caused by muscle contractions in the middle ear, changes in blood flow, or a buildup of earwax. It is important to consult a healthcare professional for a proper diagnosis and treatment.


How does the path of sound waves through the ear contribute to the process of hearing?

Sound waves enter the ear canal and cause the eardrum to vibrate. These vibrations are then transmitted through the middle ear bones to the cochlea in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea, hair cells convert the vibrations into electrical signals that are sent to the brain for interpretation, allowing us to hear and understand sounds.


How do the ear muscles function to help us hear?

The ear muscles help us hear by adjusting the tension of the eardrum, which allows it to vibrate properly in response to sound waves. This helps to amplify and transmit sound signals to the inner ear for processing.

Related Questions

How do you hear sound through the ear?

when you hear things, its really sound waves. the sound waves enter your ear, then it vibrates the ear drum.


What is the roar that you hear when you place a seashell next to your ear?

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.


Why do you hear the sound with your right ear before your left ear?

The difference in hearing the sound with your right ear before your left ear is due to the time it takes for the sound waves to travel from the source to each ear. Sound waves travel faster through air than through the bones in your skull, which causes a slight delay in hearing the sound with the ear furthest from the source.


How does putting your ear to the ground help you hear better?

Hearing is a result of vibrations. The sound waves move through the air and vibrate your ear drum. The vibrations are translated by the brain as familiar sounds. Similarly, walls and doors resonate to the same sound waves and act like giant ear drums. By placing your ear to the door, you are effectively able to "transfer" those vibrations from the door (or wall) to your ear and hear, more clearly, what is happening on the other side.


How can you hear a sound?

with your ear


If you cover your ears and hum what is the sound travelling through brain?

When you cover your ears and hum, the sound waves travel through the bones of your skull and into the cochlea of your inner ear. From there, the sound signals are transmitted to your brain through the auditory nerve, where they are processed as the humming sound you hear.


What organ helps us hear sound?

The ear is the organ responsible for detecting and transmitting sound waves to the brain for processing. It consists of three main parts: the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. Sound enters the ear through the outer ear, passes through the middle ear where it is amplified, and finally reaches the inner ear where it is converted into electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound.


How does music from your iPod reaches to your ear?

The sound that comes from headphones are electronic pulses sent through the wire and reach your ear drum, which is vibrated and transformed into the sound that you hear.


What statement best describes how human hear sound?

The human ear detects sound waves through the outer ear, which then travel through the ear canal to the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates in response to sound waves, which are then transmitted through the middle ear bones to the inner ear, where they are converted into electrical signals by hair cells and sent to the brain for interpretation.


If sound travels faster through a solid why can't you hear through solids?

In fact, sound does travel faster in solids than in liquids, and faster in liquids than in air. Also, we canhear through solids, but not very well. And it doesn't have anything to do with the speed of sound in the material. Let's look at what's going on.If sound originates in air on the other side of a wall, the sound must impinge on the wall to be transmitted through it. Some of the energy is reflected and some is absorbed, so that doesn't leave much to come through to where we might be listening. Also, you can hear better with an ear to the wall. But if the sound originates in the solid wall, you can hear it better, and can hear it very well with an ear pressed to the wall. This is because the solid will propagate it better (as well as faster) than it would travel in a liquid or in air.You might recall the old Indian trick of putting an ear to the rails to listen to find out if a train was coming. The sound is conducted in the solid rails (even with the spacing between sections) better than through the air. These people didn't know why this was so, but they knew that it was a fact.


What is a use of ear?

It is to hear sound


Do You hear sound when your ear drum vibrates?

Yes, sound waves are collected by the outer ear and travel through the ear canal to the eardrum. When the eardrum vibrates in response to these sound waves, it sends these vibrations to the middle ear and then to the inner ear, where they are converted into electrical signals that are processed by the brain as sound.