WAEC - Physics (2017 - No. 27)
Consider the wave equation: \(y = 10sin(x - 50t)\), What does the number 10 represent?
Acceleration
Speed
Amplitude
Wavelength
Paliwanag
Comparing the given equation with the wave equation:
\(Asin(kx - \omega t)\), we have that A = 10 which is the amplitude of the wave.