Sound energy is mechanical, it involves the movement of atoms. The energy in a sound wave is both kinetic and potential. Just as in a vibrating spring, the medium has mass a â¦ nd moves and so moving mass is kinetic energy. Just as in the spring there is compression and rarefaction, so there is elastic potential energy.
A polynomial is a mathematical expression consisting of a sum of terms, each term including a variable or variables raised to a power and multiplied by a coefficient. The simplest polynomials have one variable. anxn + an-1xn-1 + ... where the a's represent the coefficients and x represents the variable.
paÂ·ramÂ·eÂ·ter. n. 1. Mathematics. a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.