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Information is captured in an electric signal through variations in voltage or current that correspond to specific data. These variations can represent binary values (0s and 1s) in digital systems or varying amplitudes and frequencies in analog systems. For instance, in digital communication, a high voltage might represent a '1' and a low voltage a '0'. This encoding allows the transmission and processing of complex information over electrical circuits.

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Are the grooves on a record are examples of information stored as a digital signal?

They are a method of storing information, but as there is no computer or digitizing element involved, it is not exactly a digital signal. It is an analog signal.


What is a device that converts information into a signal?

Transducer


What is bandwidth required for AM signal?

With full double sideband AM the bandwidth of the modulated signal is twice that of the baseband information signal. With suppressed carrier single sideband AM the bandwidth of the modulated signal is identical to that of the baseband information signal. With vestigial sideband AM the bandwidth of the modulated signal is somewhere between the above two cases, depending on how much of the vestigial sideband is included.


Is current is a signal?

Yes, current can be considered a signal in certain contexts, particularly in electronics and telecommunications. It refers to the flow of electric charge, which can carry information through modulation techniques such as amplitude modulation (AM) or frequency modulation (FM). In these cases, variations in current can represent data, enabling communication and control in various systems.


What is difference between analog signal and alternating current?

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation in respect to other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. Any information may be conveyed by an analog signal often such a signal is a measured response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, temperature, position, or pressure, and is achieved using a transducer. So, Analog signal is a medium to send information over distance ,the information cane be anything. The main disadvantage of Analog signals is they have larger noise . Alternating Current is defined as the behavior of Electric charge. Alternating Current is the movement of Electric current which is periodic and attains both positive and reverse direction (positive and negative) in its propagation whereas Direct Current only attains itself in one direction i.e positive cycle only. So,the difference is...Analog is the type of signals whereas Alternating is a behavior of Electric charge on its movement.