Communications

1. Why are sine waves fundamental to data communications?

2. When is a wave classified as simple?

3. When shown a graph of a sine wave, what is the quickest way to determine whether the phase is zero?

4. On a frequency domain graph, what does the y-axis represent?

1. What does Fourier analysis of a composite wave produce?

2. Is bandwidth easier to compute from a time domain or frequency domain representation? Why?

3. What is the analog bandwidth of a signal?

4. What is the definition of baud?

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