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What is the complete process of sound waves traveling through your ear?
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The sound is concentrated by your outer ear to your external ear canal. It makes to vibrate your ear drum. Then the vibrations are amplified and transferred to the oval window. From there you have the vibrations transferred to round window. The fluid vibrates between the two windows. These vibrations are taken up by the hair cells from your inner ear and the message is sent to the brain for final analysis of the sound.
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How are vibrations and fluid currents transmitted?
Sound consists of vibrations in the medium through which the sound is traveling. When the sound-producing object vibrates, it sets the neighbouring particles of the medium into vibration. These in turn pass the vibration to their neighbouring particles. After doing this, they come back to rest. This way the disturbance is carried forward and when these vibrations are sensed by our ear, we hear sound.
What external ear structure catches sound waves?
'Vibration' isn't captured by the outer ear. It is a sound that is captured through 'bone conduction'. Many hard of hearing or 'deaf' people pick up vibration through their skeletal structure. The Inner ear (the cochlear) is primarilarly bone, where the hair cells live which, by an electrical conversion process, tells the brain, that it has 'heard' a sound. In 'normal' or 'average hearing people', sound is captured by the outer ear in the 'concha',(the shell like part of the ear) and fed into the ear canal towards the eardrum and then into the inner ear. Blockages such as wax can inhibit the transmission of sound through the 'normal' hearing process but usually age contributes to hearing loss in the same way that joints, sight etc deteriorate through advanced ageing. This is due to a 'wearing away' of the hair cells of the inner ear.
When people hear a sound their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound This process is called?
Encoding
Pass through the cochlea and are transformed into nerve impulses and sent to the brain?
sound waves
When a empty glass is kept close to ear why you hear sound?
When a seashell is free of its inhabitant, it is simply an empty chamber. Because of this, it is able to amplify and distort the sound of air traveling across its surface in a way filled vessels cannot. The sound that comes from the inside of a shell is the sound of air moving across and within the shell. The cavity of the seashell allows the noise to echo and resonate. The movement of air is constant, so the noise coming from the interior of the shell is a continuous whooshing, which is very similar to the sound of the ocean .
What happens to sound waves in air?
when a sound wave is sent through the air, it is passed through to someone's ear. when this process is complete and the sound wave has hit the receiver, it causes a vibration on the object
How fast is sound energy?
It depends on the substance the sound is traveling through. If the sound is traveling through air, it is usually about 800km/h. If it is traveling through water, the speed is about 4000km/h. If it is traveling through cosmos, its speed is 0km/h.
When the temperature of the air is 25 degrees the velocity of a sound wave traveling through the air is?
when the temperature of the air is 25 degrees Celsius, the velocity of a sound wave traveling through the air is approx.
The speed of sound traveling thruogh steel is much more than the speed traveling through air?
False
Which one of the following is NOT an example of a compressional wave a wave moving through a coiled spring sound traveling through the air sound traveling through water green light traveling thru air?
Light is an example of an electromagnetic (EM) wave. EM waves are transverse waves, not compressional waves. Sound waves are compressional waves, so both sound traveling through air and water would be compressional. Waves traveling along a coiled spring compress the coils together and spread them apart, so this is also an example of a compressional wave.
Would sound waves traveling through the outer ear travel faster or slower than those traveling through the inner ear?
yes it can yes it can
What happens when sound is traveling through a liquid?
It slows down an becomes distorted.
Does sound travel faster through a solid block of metal or through air?
Sound travels faster through air. Though sound travels farther through solid objects (vibrations), it is faster when traveling through air waves.
What energy change occurs when sound is produced?
Sound energy causes the particles in the medium it is traveling through to vibrate. The medium is a solid, liquid or gas.
How do cheetas produce sound?
Cheetahs produce sound the same way we do but the sounds that travel to them they collect by the sound waves traveling up there ear into the brain where they autimatically process the sound and know what it is!
Sound waves are longitudinal waves why?
For a sound wave traveling through air, the vibrations of the particles are best described as longitudinal.
Why it is unable to hear sound traveling through water?
Because you've never listened? I have, and I find it quite easy to hear sound travelling through water.
