CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Hair Cell, Middle Ear, Cochlea

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Rhonda Mc Ewen

Document Summary

What technologies are doing to constrain towards a certain behaviour. Major breakthrough for audio tech: 1873- james clerk maxwell"s (scotland) treatise on electricity and magnetic relationship objects have when put through electricity. 2. april 1989- fraunhofer received a german patent for mp3. 3. 1998- two university students, justin frankel and dmitry boldyrev ported amp to windows and created winamp (audio player) for free. 4. june 1999-shawn fanning created napster (music downloading software). 5. january 6,2012, capitol records, a label of emi music,filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against. Any source of sound sends vibrations or sound waves into the air. these funnel through the ear opening, down the external ear canal,and stike your eardrum, causing it to vibrate. The vibrations are passed to the three small bones of the middle ear, which transmit them to the cochlea. Inside one of the tubes,tiny hair cells pick up the vibrations and convert them into nerve impulses. These impulses are delivered to the brain via the hearing nerve.