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Can any one please help me with this one really need help-example-1
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A compression is where the particles in the air are closer together, so where those black lines are closer together.
A rarefaction is the opposite, where they're spread out.

The wavelength is the distance between two compressions or rarefactions (i.e. two peaks or troughs on a graph), therefore thats the horizontal arrows.

The amplitude is the distance from the centre of the wave to the peak or trough, so that is the vertical distance on the diagram.
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