Directions: The problem below is designed to be done as group work in class. The human ear canal has a typical length of about 2.2 cm and can be modeled as a tube open at one end and closed at the the vocal tract, when you aren't swallowing, are membranous folds that close and open to modify the pressure at the vocal folds. b. If the vocal tract with closed vocal folds is mod- eardrum. eled as a pipe closed only on one end, predict the length of the vocal tract corresponding to the fun- damental frequency for hearing just calculated in a. Calculate the fundamental frequency that humans should be expected to hear best. Assume that the speed of sound is 345 m/s in air. Looking deeply down your friend's throat, or perhaps looking at a photograph, you observe the vocal tract. Ar the bottom of part (a). c. Calculate the fundamental frequency of the human voice if L 17 cm.
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
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