Chirp with linearly changing frequency and amplitude?

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A linear chirp

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or linearly swept sine is a signal in which the frequency changes linearly with time:

the starting frequency enter image description here changes into the ending frequency enter image description here over time at a rate of:

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and enter image description here is the amount of time it takes. Its instantaneous frequency at point t is:

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It looks like this:

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Is there a similar equation where you can make the amplitude also change with time, independently of the changing frequency? It would have this shape approximately:

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You simply have a time-dependent amplitude function $A(t)>0$, as already pointed out in a comment:

$$x(t)=A(t)\sin(\omega t+\phi)$$

The function $A(t)$ can have any form as long as it is positive (because it must be an amplitude). If you want it to decrease linearly from value $A_0>0$ at time $t_0$ to $A_1$ ($0<A_1<A_0$) at time $t_1$, simply define it as

$$A(t)=\frac{A_1-A_0}{t_1-t_0}(t-t_0)+A_0$$