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What doesn’t kill you

The current goal: studying well for my Master's program and communicating
well in English.
The long-term goal: Having a life with enough health, love, and joy to keep
myself and those around me happy.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Physics time:)) today we’ll be learning
about analog and digital signals. Let’s get into it.
I have some questions for you that you should be able to answer by the end of the
period.
- The first question is what is a signal?
- The second question is what are analog and digital signals?
- The last one is what are some everyday examples of analog and digital signals?

Let's start with question one what is a signal?


Generally speaking, a signal is a quantity that can represent and convey
information. Typically, signals are passed between devices to send and receive
information.

Here are some examples of the ways a signal can travel, one example is fiber
optics: fiber-optic cables are commonly known for carrying signals to your TV.
The way that fiber optics works, is by sending information coded in a beam of
light, down a glass or plastic pipe.

Another example is the radio, radios receive signals via radio waves, finally we
have the telephone . the signals that are send and received by phones are voltage
signals. We'll talk more about phones and radios in the future slides.

Two types of signals

There are two types of signals there are analog signals and there are digital
signals, even from this image you can visually see the difference between these
two signals. Analog signals are represented by a continuous wave, while digital
signals are represented by discrete columns, but what does that mean and how do
they work.
Let's go ahead and get into more specific details about each type of signal most
are the analog signal

what is a analog signal?


a analog signal converts information into waves of varying amplitude and
frequency, as we can see in this graph the signals are smooth and continuously
changes, when something is described as continuous that means that there are
infinite values they can take even if those values are in between a certain range
let's say that the range is this top point in this bottom point, the analog signal can
have a value that falls anywhere between those two points infinite amount of
values.
Because these signals are continuously changing and it can record the exact
waveform that was delivered and then received by device. On the other hand
what is a digital signal?
Have a digital signal that converts information, into discrete values they have a
finite set of possible values that the signal can be converted into, in other words
digital signals exist as on or off pulses on pulses are often represented as a
number one and off pulses are often represented by the number zero.
This is something known as binary by meaning two which refers to the two
valleys that the signal can exist as one or zero, in a square wave these values are
either up or down up means on and down means off as you can see over here, up
is one down at zero up is on down is off .
Because these valleys are clear-cut they are less prone to interference and more
replicable than analog waves as they do not need to replicate every single part of
the wave perfectly they just need to know the signal is on or off, the last point is
that square waves are made by sampling along the waveform, but what does that
mean let's use the example of music, as we know the product of digital signals are
not always just on or off there are more complex than that when you listen to an
mp 3 song, there different sounds and volumes. it's not that there is or is not sound
so how does this happen?
How do we get a song recording that becomes an mp3, we start with a singer in a
recording studio and the sounds coming out of the singers mouth are in analog
waveforms.
Then what happens to those analog sound waves is a sampling of those analog
waveforms by an analog to digital converter on a DC stands for, this is done to
convert the analog sound waves into digital bits, as of any sampling the more
samples you get in a certain amount of time the more data points you have to
make your digital bits and therefore the higher quality your song will be.
That's why people like to download songs with higher kilobits per second or kbps
because that means more kilobits are being processed and therefore transferred
per second, giving you a higher quality sound.

Once you've finished sampling the analog waveform with this converter you have
successfully stored this analog signal into a digital signal, in the form of mp 3 , and
then from there you can listen to your song.
Now let's go through some every examples of analog and digital signals . let's
start the example of telling time
Examples telling time

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