Physics 2083 - Current Material
From Wednesday, May 5.
Complete version of Study Guide #4 is
here.
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- Explain the concept of bandwidth in broadcasting. How does the bandwidth of a signal correlate with the amount of energy it takes to broadcast the signal? How does it correlate with the number of possible channels one would have to search to find the signal?
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- Explain the tradeoff an observer must make between sensitivity and sky coverage when trying to detect signals. If an observer takes the time to observe with very high sensitivity in a given direction, how does that affect the amount of time it will take to cover the whole sky?