The following is a historic photo gallery of Coast Guard icebreakers, showing some of the differing types of vessels that have seen service with the Coast Guard icebreaking fleet. We hope that you will enjoy this gallery of images of some of the largest ships that have ever served with the Coast Guard.
The distance from the top of one peak to the bottom of another is called peak-to-peak amplitude. Another way to describe peak-to-peak amplitude is to say that it is the distance between the maximum positive value and the maximum negative value of a wave. Waves and their properties:
The period is 2*pi which is equal to 6.28. This is because both the sine and cosine functions repeat every 2*pi. The amplitude is 1.41 because that is the farthest distance from the axis that the function ever reaches. It occurs at 45 degrees, or pi/4 if you are dealing in radians. I hope this clears things up a little bit!