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Existence of monochromatic pulses?
Why there can not be a monochromatic pulse? My physics professor told us that we can't generate a monochromatic light pulse and I was wondering what are the physical limitations causing this.
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An apparent contradiction in various explanations of frequency bands and data bandwidth
From wikipedia:
"A key characteristic of bandwidth is that any band of a given width can carry the same amount of information, regardless of where that band is located in the frequency spectrum. For ...
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Multiple channels of information in single electromagnetic wave?
I'm trying to understand how can multiple radio stations transmit information just by transmitting using different frequency. The way I understand it all those different frequency waves add up to a ...