Hearing

Question 1

Pure tone

Answer 1

Is produced by simple repeated alterations of compressions and rarefaction

Question 2

Frequency

Answer 2

The number of complete compression-rarefaction cycles per second

Question 3

Acoustics

Answer 3

Branch of physics specializing in sound

Question 4

Amplitude

Answer 4

Graphically describes the intensity of the energy of a vibrating body

Question 5

Wavelength

Answer 5

The distance between one wave crest to the next

Question 6

Phase

Answer 6

Term used to describe the position in the cycle of one sound wave relative to another

Question 7

Resonance

Answer 7

Natural tendency for an object of vibrate, with greater amplitude, at one frequency than others, when the vibratory force is applied

Question 8

Reflection

Answer 8

Consist of reverberations and echoes

Question 9

Absorption

Answer 9

Opposite of reflection

Question 10

Complex wave

Answer 10

Acoustical combination of several different pure tones presented simultaneously

Question 11

Sound pressure

Answer 11

The deviation from the ambient atmospheric pressure caused by a sound wave

Question 12

Inverse square law

Answer 12

States that with each doubling of distance from the sound source, there is a 6db SPL decrease

Question 13

Boyles law

Answer 13

States that as the physical volume that contains a gas decreases, the pressure of the gas increases

Question 14

Direct contact transmission

Answer 14

Requires close, physical contact between the infected individual and another person

Question 15

Indirect contract transmission

Answer 15

Occurs when an infected person or Hearing Aid touches a surface such as a table, door, knob, chair, computer, and then another person comes in contact with that surface

Question 16

Droplet contact transmission

Answer 16

 occurs when organisms are transferred via droplets from an infected person when they cough sneeze or talk to another person

Question 17

Four quad of head

Answer 17

Superior(top)
Inferior(bottom)
Anterior(front)
Posterior(back)