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What is the vertical distance between the highest and lowest points of a wave?
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∙ 12y ago
The amplitude of a wave measures the height of a wave, as commonly depicted on a 2-D graph. However, amplitude tends to measure purely the absolute value of the distance from 0 or the baseline. So a wave with a height of 2 would not be said to have an amplitude of 4 due to the height above and below 0, but rather just an amplitude of 2. Hope this helps.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoIn the study of wave patterns, this distance is referred to as Amplitude.
It is arrived at by calculating the height of waves ( or, in this instance the height between a wave crest and the trough that follows it), passing a fixed point in space.
Along this fixed point, ( actually a line, oriented vertically) some convention of measurement would be used ( inches, meters, etc).
For a visual idea, seeing an Oscilloscope in operation, displaying a
Sine wave pattern, will display an Amplitude that can be manipulated
through the use of the Amplitude dial. The Oscilloscope is a measurement
tool used in the Study of the Physics of Sound, and other applications.
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∙ 11y agoThe amplitude is the distance between the the zero position and the crest or the zero position and the trough so the vertical distance means double the amplitude.
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∙ 11y agoWave Height
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