MadSci Network: Physics
Query:

Re: Sound Waves

Area: Physics
Posted By: Samuel Conway, Senior Staff Chemist, Avid Therapeutics,Philadelphia, PA
Date: Wed Jun 11 19:45:36 1997
Area of science: Physics
ID: 860104541.Ph
Message:
The answer is no, for two reasons:

The first is that if the wavelength of a sound is very very long, it 
is likely to lie below the threshold that the human ear can detect.

The second is that there is a certain distance along the ear canal to
the eardrum, so no matter how close you stand to the wall, there will
always be a distance for it to travel through before it strikes the
eardrum.

If this does not answer your question, please re-submit it, and add to
your diagram an indication of where the "ear" would be placed.




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