Download or read book BASICS OF SOUND AND HEARING written by Dr. ibrahim elnoshokaty and published by ibrahim elnoshokaty. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday your world is filled with a multitude of sounds. Sound can let you communicate with others or let others communicate with you. It can be a warning of danger or simply an enjoyable experience. Some sounds can be heard by dogs or other animals but cannot be heard by humans. The ability the hear is definitely an important sense, but people who are deaf are remarkable in the ways that they can compensate for their loss of hearing All of the sounds you can hear from plucking the strings above occur because mechanical energy produced by your computer speaker was transferred to your ear through the movement of atomic particles. Sound is a pressure disturbance that moves through a medium in the form of mechanical waves. When a force is exerted on an atom, it moves from its rest or equilibrium position and exerts a force on the adjacent particles. These adjacent particles are moved from their rest position and this continues throughout the medium. This transfer of energy from one particle to the next is how sound travels through a medium. The words "mechanical wave" are used to describe the distribution of energy through a medium by the transfer of energy from one particle to the next. Waves of sound energy move outward in all directions from the source. Your vocal chords and the strings on a guitar are both sources which vibrate to produce sound waves. Without energy, there would be no sound. Let's take a closer look at sound waves