An illustration shows a wave with a horizontal distance between two consecutive troughs as 2 cm, and a maximum vertical distance above the horizontal line as 0.5 cm.

Question

An illustration shows a wave with a horizontal distance between two consecutive troughs as 2 cm, and a maximum vertical distance above the horizontal line as 0.5 cm.
What does the value 0.5 cm represent for the wave?

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Responses

wavelength
wavelength

frequency
frequency

amplitude
amplitude

equilibrium
equilibrium

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The value 0.5 cm represents the **amplitude** of the wave. Amplitude is the maximum vertical distance from the equilibrium position (horizontal line) to the peak (crest) or trough of the wave.