Hearing

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Introduction

Summary

Sound waves travel through the air as pressure vibrations of varying intensity .
Your ear senses those fluctuations and translates them into electrical impulses that your brain can interpret.

Goals

• To describe the hearing process.
• To illustrate the waveform of sound waves.

Features

Click on "labels" to see the names of  the parts and to hide the sound waves.

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hearing cochlea auditory nerve sensory senses wave eardrum sound ossicles