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Yes. As the waves propagate their amplitude generally decreases. Imagine dropping a rock in a pond, and picture how the wave worked around it drops as it expand
by matthewowen 8y ago
Yes. As the waves propagate their amplitude generally decreases. Imagine dropping a rock in a pond, and picture how the wave worked around it drops as it expands. There's both diffusion of the force over a wider area and there's some inertia in the materials that the wave has to overcome.
- TekMol 8y agoConstant decrease does not imply ever hitting 0.
- hanoz 8y agoHowever, truly the pond will never be the same again. Nor, chaos theory tells us, will the world. In time, across the globe, countless lives will be lived and lost which never would have been lived and lost had the rock not been dropped in that pond.