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Explain Oscillations And Waves.


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Definition of Oscillation:

Oscillation is referred to as a process of repeating fluctuations in quantity, or a measurement around its time equilibrium value. Oscillation can also be defined as the periodic variation of matter between two values ​​or around their average.

A car bouncing on it is suspension, oscillating metal structures such as bridges as we will as aircraft wings, oil platforms oscillating on rough seas, atoms oscillating in molecules as we will as in solids are examples of different types of oscillatory motion.

Definition of wave

A perturbation in which energy is transmitted from one particle of the medium to another without permanently moving the medium itself.

It may take the form of elastic deformation, a variation of pressure, electric or magnetic intensity, electric potential, or temperature.


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