Hearing Definition and 62 Threads

Does a loud noise that is beyond my range of hearing still do damage to my ears?

Homework Statement A race car fan is sitting in the first row at the beginning of a 1.5 km front stretch of a racetrack. A race car driver coming around the final turn is approaching the fan’s position at 99.5 m/s. The driver sees a car wreck ahead and slams on the brakes causing the car to...

As I was sitting at a restaurant, surrounded by conversations going on at nearby tables, it came into my thoughts how fascinating the brain and hearing work together. By this, I mean here are various conversations going on at one time, all equal in my ability to hear each one as well as the...

Hello all. Long time no see. I'm currently in university studying chemistry, and I relised that in general conversations and just lectures I tend to miss out on a lot of the words i.e. I can't actually make them out. I can hear the murmuring, but I'm having increasing trouble actually...

A person wears a hearing aid, which makes a sounds louder by 50 dB. This a) means the sound intensity is increased by 100,000 times. b) This also means that the amplitude of the soundwave is increased by ______ times? I know Intensity is portportinal to (Amplitude)^2... so does that mean I...

The theory is that sound is heard because of fluctuations in the air molecules that surround us but why is that we can hear noise coming from outside when we are in an enclosed room? Is it the case that air molecules are able to travel through the walls of an ordinary room?

It is a little disconcerting to hear public officeholders mispronounce the word “nuclear.” And no, I am not going to name any names. I remember a local news story some years back. A food product that was being sold in grocery stores--probably it was milk--was found to have aflatoxin in it...

Yes yes, I’m a slacker. I have a short paper (2500 words max) due on Friday for an Earth Sci. class about ‘some aspect of biological evolution’. My chosen topic is the evolution of ears and hearing in animals. I chose it because I’m pretty sure no one else is doing it…and the evolution of eyes...

Well, you know the question. :smile:

Hi all Does anyone know the time delay through the head between the voicebox producing sound and the ear registering it? Thanks in advance Dave

Sound Problem... A swimmer with one ear underwater and one ear above water in air, hears a crash. She hears the crash in the water first where the Veloctiy of the wave in water was 1500m/s. The air temperature is 20°C and she hears the wave again after 2.0 seconds but this time she hears it...

I have just read an article about a species of fly (I wish I could remember the name of the fly, but I can't ("Omri something-or-other")) that have the hearing precision of an owl (it is said to be able to pin-point an object (through hearing) with a precision that is within two compass...