Usually involves feeling of fear or insecurity. The loss of confidence in things that have always been stable or dependable in the past â this includes things such as a relationship, your personality structure, health, etc; so the breakdown of opinions, attitudes or relationships which seemed so dependable and you have taken for granted.
Crests and troughs. Waves have moving crests (or peaks) and troughs. A crest is the highest point the medium rises to and a trough is the lowest point the medium sinks to. Crests and troughs on a transverse wave are shown in Figure 1. A crest is a point on the wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum.
The highest point of a transverse wave is called the CREST, while the lowest point of a traverse wave is called the TROUGH. Added 186 days ago|4/18/2015 2:58:34 PM. This answer has been confirmed as correct, not copied, and helpful. Confirmed by yumdrea [4/19/2015 4:18:08 PM].