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Phase-Based Ranging
I've been reading a lot about Phase-Based Ranging (PBR), and it's all starting to become very intuitive.
BUT; There is one technical, but extremely important, detail that seems to escape me. When the ...
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Intuitive explanation of Nyquist rate?
Is there an intuitive way to understand Nyquist rate (i.e., that, in order to prevent loss, an analog signal must be digitized at a rate twice as high as the highest frequency component of the signal)....
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Is this a good use of the convolution?
I would like to replicate the real response of an instrument to some signal. Here's what I have in mind: I generate some ideal signal. I then add Gaussian noise to it to produce a realistic signal s(t)...
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I don't understand intuitively why the instantaneous frequency is obtained by calculating the time derivative of the phase
I don't understand intuitively why the instantaneous frequency is obtained by calculating the time derivative of the phase
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Does sunlight have a modulation frequency?
By frequency, I don't mean electromagnetic frequency, I mean modulation frequency. For example, I can put a PWM square wave on an LED at some frequency, which I can detect with a photodiode and a ...
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Is it possible to, like white noise, excite all audio frequencies equally, but with a more immediate & less random burst? Like a signal discontinuity?
I am trying to generate an audio signal that, like white noise, has "equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density", but unlike white noise, can be ...
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How do you extrapolate frequency data from FDTD simulation time data?
Context: Im a PhD student who plans on doing research in theoretical plasmonics/nanophotonics, so I am studying up on understanding FDTD. I am having a bit of a conceptual issue regarding ...
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Why don't podcasts played at faster speeds sound higher-pitched?
Many podcast apps allow you to listen to podcasts faster than the speed at which they were recorded (typically at x1.25, x1.5, x1.75, and x2 speeds).
If these apps are simply replacing the sound's ...
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Why does audio signal amplitude always fall off at higher frequencies?
In the frequency spectrum of every real audio sample that I've ever seen, the amplitude of the frequency components is always higher at low frequencies, then rapidly falls off at higher frequencies.
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In what respect does the wave pattern of a noise and music differ?
Does the wave pattern of musical sounds contain only harmonics (other than the fundamental frequency) while noise contains random overtones (that are not harmonics)?
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Minimum Observable Offset Frequency in Leeson's Formula
It has been argued in some publications that the age of the universe represents a lower limit on observable frequencies (in their paper, corresponding to a value of $10^{-17}$ Hz). The authors do not ...
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How do I convert the Amplitude from Power/Amplitude spectral density?
I've started working on PSD for seismic signals. In theory, PSD signal can be expressed in 2 ways. One in $(PSD=g^2/Hz)$ and other in $PSD=((meter/second^2)^2/Hz)$ and also ASD=(√PSD). Here $g$ is the ...
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Data transmission through optical fiber and copper wire
I read the following in one reference: A copper wire (twisted pair), the link traditionally associated with low bit rate transmission, is still in use in the modern data centers transmitting data at ...
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Wavelength and frequency associated with a wave pulse
What are the definitions of wave length and frequency of a wave pulse?
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Can we quantify the pitch of a sound that is a mixture of many frequencies?
How is the pitch of a sound defined quantitatively when it is a mixture of many frequencies? For example, the sound emitted by a plucked guitar string, or say, the pitch of somebody's (normal) voice. ...
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