Amplitude

AmplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More (Angular amplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More) is the maximum displacement of a pendulum bob. During the oscillationOscillation is a regular periodic movement of a pendulum bob..., the maximum displacement from its mean position is called amplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More.

The maximum displacement of a periodic wave. It is the height of a crest or the depth of a trough measured from the undisturbed position of what is carrying the wave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a simple periodic wave, the amplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More is the same on either sides of the rest position. As a wave travels through a medium, its amplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More usually decreases because some of its energyEnergy is the property of matter and radiation which is mani... is being lost to friction. If no energyEnergy is the property of matter and radiation which is mani... were required to overcome friction, there would be no decrease in amplitudeAmplitude (Angular amplitude) is the maximum displacement of... More and the wave would be called: ‘ideal wave’. As a rule to make analysis easier, we will assume that the waves we are examining are ideal waves.