When intensity goes up, amplitude goes up. Same direction. Same pattern you just saw with the scan.
The rising pattern
You're buying coffees for your clinical team before a 6am shift.
Tap to add coffees. Watch the pattern.
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Coffees
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Total cost
More coffees, more cost. The cups drew the pattern for you.
When two things are directly related, this rising pattern always appears.
Key terms
Directly Related
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Directly Related
When one value increases, the other increases too.
The scan got brighter when you turned up power. The cost went up when you added coffees.
Intensity
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Intensity
How strong or powerful the sound wave is.
You heard this: the sound got louder as you turned the knob.
Amplitude
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Amplitude
How tall the wave is from its resting position to its peak.
You saw this: the wave grew taller with the knob.
Proportional
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Proportional
Values that increase at the same rate.
Double the coffees, double the cost.
In ultrasound, recognizing direct relationships lets you predict what will happen when you change a setting. You already did this on the Discover tab: you just didn't know the name yet.
Quick check
The power setting was increased. What most likely happened to the image brightness?
Before
After
When you turned the intensity knob up in the sound lab, the wave:
Drag each pair to the correct category:
Move together
Move opposite
Coffees & Cost
Intensity & Amplitude
Sleep & Screen time
A machine setting goes from 2 to 4. If the output is directly related to the setting, the output: