Digital and Analog Signals
Digital vs. Analog
Digital: Cellphone
General Information on Cellphones
- People use cellphones every day.
- Cellphones are used in many places all over the world, in homes, school, work. Cellphones can be used practically everywhere.
- Cellphones are used because they make communication simple and portable.
- Cellphones are used for communication
- People all over the world use cellphones.
- The signals from cellphones travel from the phone of who sent the signal to cell towers, to a satellite, back down to a cell tower, then to the cellphone of who the signal was sent for.
Picture Cited: Hewitt, John. "Neuristors: The Future of Brain-like Computer Chips | ExtremeTech." ExtremeTech. N.p., 31 Dec. 2012. Web. 12 May 2016.
Analog: Landline Phone
- Landline Phones are used when calls are needed to be made.
- Landline Phones are used in school buildings, business buildings, homes, etc.
- These phones are used to make calls from inside buildings.
- Landline Phones are used because they make basic communication simple between homes and/or businesses.
- Landline Phones are used by most home owners, businesses schools, etc.
- The signals from landline phone of the caller travels electrically through wires and picks up noise as it travels to the person the call was sent to.
*In the photo, you can see that the waves are not as constant in frequency, wavelength, and amplitude as the waves in the digital signal image are. That is because the signal has been interfered with with noise.*
Picture Cited: Hewitt, John. "Neuristors: The Future of Brain-like Computer Chips | ExtremeTech." ExtremeTech. N.p., 31 Dec. 2012. Web. 12 May 2016.
Conclusion
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