What is amplitude of a wave?

Answer 1

amplitude measures the highest and lowest points in a wave from a fixed position e.g. if a wave has a constant height value of +10 and -10, and the fixed position is 0, then the amplitude would be +10 or -10. additional information, frequency measures the time taken for a wave to make one single oscillation, going from +10, through 0, through -10, back through 0 to the start point of +10.

Answer 2

It's the height (magnitude) of the wave from max to min.

Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable, with each oscillation, within an oscillating system. Sound waves are oscillations in atmospheric pressure and their amplitudes are proportional to the change in pressure during one oscillation (the distance between the waves crest and trough).

Answer 3

Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable, with each oscillation, within an oscillating system. Sound waves are oscillations in atmospheric pressure and their amplitudes (called the sound pressure) are proportional to the change in pressure during one oscillation.

Answer 4

Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable with each oscillation within an oscillating system. For example, sound waves in air are oscillations in atmospheric pressure and their amplitudes are proportional to the change in pressure during one oscillation. If a variable undergoes regular oscillations, and a graph of the system is drawn with the oscillating variable as the vertical axis and time as the horizontal axis, the amplitude is visually represented by the vertical distance between the extrema of the curve and the equilibrium value.

Answer 5

the amplitude of a sound wave is the air around you's temperature and the time of sound timed together.

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No - the amplitude of any wave is its "height", which in sound is the wave's pressure. Time and temperature are not involved in amplitude.

Answer 6

the amplitude of a water wave is the maximum distance a water particle moves above or below the surface level of calm water.

Answer 7

The square of the amplitude gives the intensity of the wave. Intensity in case of sound is sensed as loudness and in case of light as brightness.

Answer 8

The height of the wave.

Answer 9

The peak to peak distance

Answer 10

the height of the vibrations