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The ear canal resonates like a tube closed at one end. (See Figure 17.39.) If ear canals range in length from 1.80 to 2.60 cm in an average population, what is the range of fundamental resonant frequencies? Take air temperature to be 37.0°C, which is the same as body temperature. How does this result correlate with the intensity versus frequency graph (Figure 17.37 of the human ear?
17.39 The illustration shows the gross anatomy of the human ear.
Figure 17.37
The shaded region represents frequencies and intensity levels found in normal conversational speech. The O-phon line represents the normal hearing threshold, while those at 40 and 60 represent thresholds for people with 40- and 60-phon hearing losses, respectively.
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