Timeline for Loudness of air movement
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 1:03 | comment | added | mmesser314 | I don't know. Bats "shout" really loudly and then immediately listen for a very faint echo. To keep from being temporarily deafened, they have a mechanism to "disconnect" their ears as they shout. scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-bats-echolocate-an But I doubt this is happening in people. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 12:25 | comment | added | J. Scott | Very nice answer. Thank you a lot. But I still have one question. Your example with the little ant is very apt. But why is pressure equalization (eg. while scuba diving) not that loud? I thought it should be loud, because if you perform a valsalva maneuver, than the air is pressed into the middle ear and than blocked by the eardrum. This airstream creates also vibrations on the tissues in the middle ear. Here is a link about the valsalva maneuver: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 0:16 | history | answered | mmesser314 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |