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Q: What is displacement with respect to a wave?
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What is maximum displacement of the wave from equilibrium called?

The term for maximum displacement is the amplitude of the wave.


What is another name for the third order deritative of displacement?

First derivative of displacement with respect to time = velocity. Second derivative of displacement with respect to time = acceleration. Third derivative of displacement with respect to time = jerk.


Which type of wave has its wave velocity perpendicular to the displacement of the medium?

Longitudinal Wave


What measures the amount of displacement in longitudinal wave?

the amplitude. It is the displacement at a peak.


Wave maximum displacement from the rest position?

The correct term from the maximum displacement from the rest position in a wave is the Amplitude (A).


In a transverse wave in what direction are the vibration relative to the direction of wave travel?

In a transverse wave the particle displacement is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation (at right angles). In a longitudinal wave the particle displacement is parallel to the direction of wave propagation.


The point of maximum displacement in a wave is?

amplitude.


What is a point of no displacement in a standing wave?

Node


What measures the amount of displacement in a longitudinal wave?

the amplitude. It is the displacement at a peak.


What is a kind off wave produced in stretched string?

the wave produced in a stretched string will be a standing wave .it will have a node and antinode.node means point with zero displacement and antinode means point with maximum displacement


What defines the amplitude of a transverse wave?

The one-sided displacement perpendicular to the direction of the wave.


What is the maximum displacement of a particle of a wave called?

amplitude