How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?
Sound waves enter the outer ear and travel through a narrow passageway called the ear canal, which leads to the eardrum. When the sound waves fall on the eardrum, the eardrum starts vibrating back and forth rapidly. The sound produced by a vibrating object reaches our ear through sound waves which travel in the medium as a series of compressions and rarefactions. The process is repeated further and as a result sound waves propagate in the form of compressions and rarefactions to the listener’s ear.
