Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd Songfacts. Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, Florida. They wrote this song about their impressions of Alabama and as a tribute to the studio musicians at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where they recorded from 1970-1972. The studios gained fame during the '60s and '70s when it became the vogue thing for bands to record there.
Okay, here we go: Th sound waves go through the outer ear first. The sound enters the pinna, and is then funneled into the auditory canal. It goes through the tympanic membraâ¦ne, and then through the middle ear, starting with the ossicles, which consist of the malleus, incus, and stapes.
The air molecules hit other air molecules, causing a longitudinal wave to propagate until it hits our ear. Our ear takes the vibrations and sends a signal to our brain, where the frequency is translated into sound. So the mechanism for energy transfer is particle to particle collisions in the medium transmitting the sound wave. This is why sound waves (unlike light waves) require a medium in order to propagate. Here is an image of sound waves: