If you or a blood relative have had a problem related to anesthesia or surgery, please let your anesthesiologist know. A thorough medical history and physical exam is, of course the most important information your anesthesiologist can receive.
Points C and J on the diagram represent the troughs of this wave. The trough of a wave is the point on the medium that exhibits the maximum amount of negative or downward displacement from the rest position. The wave shown above can be described by a variety of properties. One such property is amplitude. The amplitude of a wave refers to the maximum amount of displacement of a particle on the medium from its rest position. In a sense, the amplitude is the distance from rest to crest. Similarly, the amplitude can be measured from the rest position to the trough position.
A simple harmonic wave described by the equation y(t) = 0.54 cos(3.1x â 2.3t) reflects. from both ends of a string that is clamped at each end, resulting in a standing wave that is. the sum of y(t) and and its reflection. What is the amplitude of the standing wave at x =.