Points on this summary:
- Height of a falling object does affect the height of the wave.
- Mass does too.
- The reason why both mass and height of the falling ball makes a difference with the height of the wave is because height turns into speed, and the mass of the object are all related to energy. More energy, the higher the waves.
- Because vibrations, waves and sound are all related, energy affects them all the same too.
- The height of the wave is called amplitude.
- Anatomy of the wave:
- The medium is the material.
- Equilibrium is the material at rest and undisturbed.
- The top of the wave is called the crest.
- The bottom of the wave is called the trough.
- The amplitude is the height of the wave from the equilibrium to the crest, or equilibrium to the trough.
- Energy is associated with the amplitude of the wave.
- low energy produces a low amplitude
- high energy produces a high amplitude