When a wave is acted upon by an external damping force, what happens to the energy of the wave?

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2022-08-24

When a wave is acted upon by an external damping force, what happens to the energy of the wave?

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Larissa Hart

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In effect, like most mechanical systems the energy is ‘degraded’ into heat, commonly regarded as a less useful form of energy because it is more widely dispersed.
Heat is just the random jostling oscillation of particles, the only difference with a wave is that the direction and amplitude of the displacement follows a distinct sinusoidal pattern, repeating with a frequency, f and obeying the general equation for displacement, x = A sin ( ω , t ) where ω is the angular velocity = 2 π . f

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