How Exactly Does My Hearing Work

A lot of people may not realize just how

amazing their ears really are. They

work to pick up all the sounds within

your environment and then turn the

sounds into a form of information that

your brain is able to comprehend.

One of the most astounding things about the transformation is

that it is entirely mechanical. Your individual sense of smell,

vision and taste all occur with a chemical reaction, but your sense

of hearing works entirely through physical movements.

In order to understand how your ears are able to hear sounds,

you need to be able to understand what sound is beforehand.

Whenever an object vibrates within matter it produces a sound. It

could be a solid, a liquid or a gas.

However, the majority of the time, we are able to hear the

sounds that are traveling throughout the air. As something

vibrates within the atmosphere, it moves the particles of air

around it.

In an attempt to look at how this process works, first think about

how a simple vibration works. If you were to hit a bell, the metal

would vibrate by flexing in and out.

Whenever it flexes on one of the sides it ends up pushing all the

surrounding air particles on the one side. All of those particles will

then collide with the particles that are already in front of them,

which collide with all the particles that are in front of them, and

the chain reaction continues creating compression.

It is in this way that vibrating objects are able to send waves of

fluctuating pressure throughout the atmosphere. We are able to

hear multiple types of sounds from varying objects due to the

variations of the frequencies for the sound waves.

Higher frequency waves mean that there is a larger amount of

fluctuation in the air pressure and it is able to switch back and

forth at a quicker rate.

This sound is interpreted as a higher pitch. However, when there

are not as many fluctuations over a specified period of time the

pitch comes across as lower. The amplitude is what determines

the amount of air pressure and the level of sound.

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