Physics of Hearing

dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-30T20:58:11Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-30T20:58:11Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer to this old philosophical question depends on how you define sound. If sound only exists when someone is around to perceive it, then there was no sound. However, if we define sound in terms of physics; that is, a disturbance of the atoms in matter transmitted from its origin outward (in other words, a wave), then there was a sound, even if nobody was around to hear it. Such a wave is the physical phenomenon we call sound. Its perception is hearing. Both the physical phenomenon and its perception are interesting and will be considered in this text. We shall explore both sound and hearing; they are related, but are not the same thing. We will also explore the many practical uses of sound waves, such as in medical imaging.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12091/398
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	OpenStax College	en_US
dc.subject	Physics	en_US
dc.title	Physics of Hearing	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US

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