Halliday, Resnick & Walker — Waves–I: Problem Problem_90

A certain transverse sinusoidal wave of wavelength 20 cm is moving in the positive direction of an x axis. The transverse velocity of the particle at x = 0 as a function of time is shown in Fig. 16.26, where the scale of the vertical axis is set by \(u_s = 5.0 \text{ cm/s}\). What are (a) wave speed, (b) amplitude, and (c) frequency? (d) Sketch the wave between \(x = 0\) and \(x = 20 \text{ cm}\) at \(t = 2.0 \text{ s}\).