Asymmetrically driving a sine wave?

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I was looking into damped sine waves and I was wondering, what parameter of the function controls for the amplitude of the wave on either side of the x-axis? For example, if I wanted to make a graph where the minima below the x-axis were closer to the x-axis than the maxima above the x-axis, how would I do that? Specifically, how would I make the minima below the x-axis only 10% of the size of peaks above it, i.e. over 10, under 1, over 20, under 2, over 30, under 3, etc.?

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The function above: $\frac{1}{4}e^\frac{x}{3}*\cos(\pi*x)$

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Try $f(x)=\frac{11}{80}\left(1+\frac12\cos(\pi x)\right)e^{x/3}\cos(\pi x)$

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The positive peaks are the same, but the lower peaks are now $10\%$ what they used to be.