Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Macon. 1  Sunrise: 07:09AM. 2  Sunset: 08:00PM. 3  Day length: 12h 51m. 4  Solar noon: 01:34PM. 5  The current local time in Macon is 94 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.
1 The mixing action of the stomach walls allows mechanical digestion to occur in the stomach. 2  The smooth muscles of the stomach produce contractions known as mixing waves that mix the boluses of food with gastric juice.
Both mechanical digestion and chemical digestion are necessary for the digestion of foods and beverages into pieces and molecules that are small enough to be absorbed in the small intestine. Both types of digestion are important and complement each other in the digestive process. There are, however, significant differences in the two types of digestion. Mechanical digestion involves the process of physically breaking down the food into ever smaller parts. The major player in mechanical digestion is mastication, which is the act of chewing and using the teeth to break the food into pieces small enough to be swallowed into the esophagus.