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The pits and flats are arranged in a spiral pattern on the CD. These pits and flats are found on the bottom edge of the CD and are the grooves that include data.
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On a CD the area that separates the pits is a mountain?
Flats, or lands.
Are the pits and the flats on a CD are examples of information stored as a digital signal?
True
Are CD-RWs as stable as CDs?
No, because in a CD-RW the pits and flats that make up the data are constantly being changed, which means the disc's surface has to be much more flexible and impermanent.
A group of flats is called?
Flats are arranged in Blocks
How do a CD drive interface with a PC?
A CD has microscopic pits and ridges that a CD drive can read. In order to read these pits, the drive has a laser that fires at the bottom of the CD and detects those pits and ridges. It then sends that raw data to the computers proccesser or motherboard, which decodes the data into a form the computer can use.
The surface of a CD stores data as pits and?
Lands
What do CD's use to store data on the disks surface?
Pits and lands
What are the words used to describe where info is stored on a CD?
Pits and lands
How does a CD player read a CD?
The CD disc is a 'sandwich' of a thin layer of metal and plastic. (The metal is the 'meat' - the plastic is the 'bread'. The metal layer has music recorded on it by a laser - which creates microscopic 'pits' in the surface. The CD player has a (less powerful) laser - which reads the pits - and converts the data into music.
What is the roman numeral CD?
400 C = 100 and D = 500 and when arranged as CD or CD this means 500-100 = 400
What does CD DVD- rw dual layer mean?
dual layer means there are layers of pits and lands on the dvd
How is digital information stored on compact?
as pits and landsInformation is stored in bits on a CD. Bits are stored as a sequence of 0s and 1s.
