| Preface | 11 |
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| Contents | 13 |
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| 1 Structure of the Mammalian Cochlea | 17 |
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| PART ONE: GRAVITATIONAL LIQUID-SURFACE WAVES | 23 |
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| 2 Introduction to Gravitational Liquid-Surface Waves | 25 |
| 3 Wave Groups | 39 |
| 4 Tsunamis | 49 |
| 5 Mass-Loaded Gravitational Surface Waves | 53 |
| PART TWO: MASS-LOADED LIQUID-SURFACE WAVES WITH SPRING RESTORING FORCE | 61 |
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| 6 Introduction to Mass-Loaded Liquid-Surface Waves with Spring Restoring Force | 63 |
| 7 Liquid on Both Sides of Cochlear Partition | 67 |
| 8 Liquid Pressure | 71 |
| PART THREE: COMPLEX WAVE FUNCTIONS | 77 |
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| 9 Introduction to Complex Wave Functions | 79 |
| 10 The Impedance of the Basilar Membrane | 85 |
| 11 Resonance | 97 |
| 12 Resonance (Continued) | 107 |
| PART FOUR: LONG-WAVE FORMULAE | 113 |
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| 13 TW Liquid Pressure versus x and z in Two-Dimensional Cochlear Models | 115 |
| 14 The Motion of the Stapes | 121 |
| 15 The Liouville-Green Approximation | 129 |
| 16 Exponentially Decreasing BM Stiffness | Negligible Mass and Friction |
| 17 A Different Basilar-Membrane Stiffness Function | 147 |
| PART FIVE: SHORT-WAVE FORMULAE | 157 |
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| 18 Validity Regions of Long- and Short-Wave Approximations | 159 |
| 19 Short-Wave Liquid-Pressure Functions | 171 |
| 20 Short-Wave Basilar-Membrane-Velocity Functions | 181 |
| 21 Comparison with Experiments | 193 |
| PART SIX: EVANESCENT WAVES | 199 |
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| 22 Evanescent Cochlear Waves without Friction | 201 |
| 23 Evanescent Cochlear Waves with Friction | 215 |
| 24 Travelling Evanescent Cochlear Waves | 227 |
| 25 Finite-Element Analysis | 239 |
| PART SEVEN: HIGH-FREQUENCY PHENOMENA | 283 |
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| 27 Liquid-Sound-Pressure Zeroes | 285 |
| 28 High-Frequency Plateaux | 293 |
| PART EIGHT: LIQUID COMPRESSION WAVES | 307 |
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| 29 Plane Liquid Compression Waves in Straight Tubes | 309 |
| 30 The Input Impedance | 319 |
| 32 Helmholtz Resonators (Continued) | 329 |
| PART NINE: OLD AND NEW COCHLEAR MAPS | 333 |
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| 33 The Passive-Peak Map | 335 |
| 34 The Basilar-Membrane Resonator Map | 341 |
| 35 The Internal Organ-of-Corti Resonator Map and the Low-Level Active-Peak Map | 343 |
| 36 Forced IOCR Oscillations | 349 |
| 37 Resonators with Feedback | 357 |
| 38 Guinea-Pig Maps | 365 |
| 39 Chinchilla Maps | 373 |
| 40 Mongolian-Gerbil Maps | 381 |
| 41 Human Maps | 385 |
| PART TEN: OTO-ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS AND FREQUENCY GLIDES | 389 |
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| 42 Distortion-Product Emissions | 391 |
| 43 Quadratic and Cubic Difference Tones | 405 |
| 44 Click-Evoked Oto-Acoustic Emissions | 413 |
| 45 Frequency Glides | 429 |
| References | 441 |
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| Index | 447 |