Ears

A pair or organs in animals and humans that enable detection of sound. The term may refer to the entire system of hearing responsible for collection and early processing of sound (the beginning of the auditory system), or merely the externally-visible part. Not all animals have ears in the same part of the body.

The Human Ear: An Understanding

Understanding how humans hear is a complex subject involving the fields of physiology, psychology and acoustics. Acoustics, which is a branch of physics pertains to the sound of hearing. The human ear serves as an astounding transducer, converting sound energy to mechanical energy to a nerve impulse which is transmitted to the brain. The ear's ability to do this allows us to perceive the pitch of sounds by detection of the wave's frequencies, the loudness of sound by detection of the wave's amplitude and the timbre of the sound by the detection of the various frequencies which make up a complex sound wave. It's definitely a complex phenomenon!

Ear – The Basic Parts

Basically, the ear consists of three parts - the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. Each part of the ear serves a specific purpose in the task of detecting and interpreting sound. The outer ear serves to collect and channel sound to the middle ear. The middle ear serves to transform the energy of a sound wave into the internal vibrations of the bone structure of the middle ear and ultimately transform these vibrations into a compressional wave in the inner ear. The inner ear serves to transform the energy of a compressional wave within the inner ear fluid into nerve impulses which can be transmitted to the brain.

Ear and Hearing

The outer ear consists of an ear flap and an almost 2-cm long ear canal. The ear flap provides protection for the middle ear, wherein it prevents damage to the eardrum. The outer ear also channels sound waves which reach the ear through the ear canal to the eardrum of the middle ear. Mainly due to the length of the ear canal, it is capable of amplifying sounds with frequencies of approximately 3000 Hz. As sound travels through the outer ear, the sound is still in the form of a pressure wave, with an alternating pattern of high and low pressure regions. It is not until the sound reaches the eardrum at the interface of the outer and the middle ear that the energy of the mechanical wave becomes converted into vibrations of the inner bone structure of the ear.

The ability of humans to perceive pitch is associated with the frequency of the sound wave which impinges upon the ear. Because sound waves are longitudinal waves which produce high-and low-pressure disturbances of the particles of a medium at a given frequency, the ear has an ability to detect such frequencies and associate them with the pitch of the sound.

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