Comm 1

Principles of Communication Systems

Assignment Quiz 1

1. It is the process of exchanging information

2. What are the two main barriers to human communication?
3. The message or information in an electronic communication system is also referred to as _______ signal.
4. It is the general term applied to any phenomenon that degrades or interferes with the transmitted information.
5. It converts physical characteristics into electrical signals.
6. It is a collection of electronic components and circuits designed to convert the electrical signal suitable for
transmission over a given communication medium.
7. It refers to the medium by which the electronic signal is sent from one place to another.
8. It is the broad general term applied to any form of wireless communication from one point to another.
9. It uses an echo-reflecting technique similar to that used in radar for determining how far away objects under water
are and in what direction they are moving.
10. It is a collection of electronic components and circuits that accepts the transmitted message from the channel and
converts it back to a form understandable by humans.
11. It refers to a one-way communication which is the simplest way in which electronic communication is conducted.
12. It is a form of two-way communication in which one party transmits at a time.
13. It refers to a smoothly and continuously varying voltage or current.
14. It is the most commonly used digital code in communications
15. It refers to the baseband information signal, be it audio, video, or data which is normally used to modulate a high-
frequency signal.
16. It refers to electromagnetic signals which are able to travel through space for long distances.
17. It is the process of having a baseband voice, video, or digital signal modify another, higher-frequency signal, the
carrier.
18. What are the two most common methods of modulation?
19. It is the process of allowing two or more signals to share the same medium or channel.
20. What are the three basic types of multiplexing?
21. It refers to the range of electromagnetic signals encompassing all frequencies.
22. It is the number of times a particular phenomenon occurs in a given period of time.
23. It is the unit of frequency
24. It is the distance occupied by one cycle of a wave and is usually expressed in meters.
25. What is the Greek letter used to represent the wavelength of a signal?
26. What is the value of speed of light?
27. What are the range of frequencies covered by extremely low frequencies?
28. What do we call those frequencies in the range 300 to 3000 Hz?
29. It is that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum occupied by a signal.
30. These are specifications and guidelines that companies and individuals follow to ensure compatibility between
transmitting and receiving equipment in communication systems.
31. It is the term used to describe the ability of equipment from one manufacturer to work compatibly with that of
another.
32. It means amplification and is the ratio of the output to the input.
33. It refers to a loss introduced by a circuit or component and is simply the ratio of the output to the input.
34. It is a unit of measurement that was originally created as a way of expressing the hearing response of the human ear
to various sound levels.
35. These are circuits made up of inductors and capacitors that resonate at specific frequencies.
36. It causes the current to lead the applied voltage.
37. It causes the current to lag the applied voltage.
38. What are two other terms for inductor?
39. It is the basic unit of inductance.
40. It is the ratio of inductive power to resistive power
41. These are frequency-selective circuits and are designed to pass some frequencies and reject others.
42. It passes frequencies below a critical frequency called the cutoff frequency and greatly attenuates those above the
cutoff frequency.
43. It passes frequencies over a narrow range between lower and upper cutoff frequencies.
44. It rejects or stops frequencies over a narrow range but allows frequencies above and below to pass.
45. It is the loss the filter introduces to the signals in the passband.
46. It is the resistive value of the load and source terminations of the filter.
47. It is also called as the attenuation rate and is the rate of change of amplitude with frequency in a filter.
48. It is also known as bandwidth ratio and is the ratio of the stop bandwidth to the pass bandwidth of a bandpass filter.
49. It is a sine wave whose frequency is some integer multiple of a fundamental sine wave.
50. These are frequency-selective circuits that incorporate RC networks and amplifiers with feedback to produce low-
pass, high-pass, bandpass and bandstop performance.

1. Communication
2. Language and distance
3. Intelligence
4. Noise
5. Transducer
6. Transmitter
7. Communication channel
8. Radio
9. Active sonar
10. Receiver
11. Simplex communication
12. Half-duplex communication
13. Analog signal
14. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
15. Carrier
16. Radio frequency waves or radio wave
17. Modulation
18. Amplitude modulation and frequency modulation
19. Multiplexing
20. Frequency division, time division, and code division
21. Electromagnetic spectrum
22. Frequency
23. Hertz
24. Wavelength
25. Lambda
26. 299,792,800 m/s. 300,000,000 m/s (3 3 108 m/s), or 186,000 mi/s
27. 30 to 300 Hz
28. Voice frequency
29. Bandwidth
30. Standards
31. Interoperability
32. Gain
33. Attenuation
34. Decibels
35. Tuned circuits
36. Capacitance
37. Inductance
38. Coil or choke
39. Henry
40. Quality factor (Q)
41. Filter
42. Low-pass filter
43. Bandpass filter
44. Band-reject filter / bandstop/ notch
45. Insertion loss
46. Impedance
47. Roll-off
48. Shape factor
49. Harmonic
50. Active filters