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    Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway) —Dave Schuler
   (...) Doh! I was trying to be so careful! I thought amplitude was the "height" from high to low--is it actually half that? At any rate, I meant to write the min occurs at y=60, so that the high points occur along the line y=180 and the low points (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway) —Shiri Dori
     (...) Yep! It's measured from the baseline to a peak (or a valley). (...) <grin> the term for that is half a wavelength, or Crest to Trough. Something like that. (A wavelength is measured from peak to peak, so peak to valley is 1/2 of it). (...) Yes (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway) —Dave Schuler
     (...) Thanks for your help, too. I just hope you did well on your test, or I'm in trouble... Dave! (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway) —Shiri Dori
     (...) Hehehehe... I probably did. Math is not by far my *favorite* subject, but it happens to be my strongest (for reasons that are totally beyond me). <shrug> -Shiri (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Off on a tangent (or a sine, anyway) —A. Mark Wilburn
   (...) Well, that changes everything, yes. (...) If cos(x/51.5) is close, then you are in radians (Shiri already correctly explained where the 1.11 came from, and she's correct if your wavelength of 324 is in degrees. If it's in radians then you have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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