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Author: Taylor Emma

A senior editor for The Mars that left the company to join the team of SenseCentral as a news editor and content creator. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars, action figures, cooking, painting, drawing and good music.

General Concepts

Engineering Mechanics

INTRODUCTION Mechanics is the physical science concerned with the behaviour of bodies that are acted upon by forces. Statics is…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
General Concepts

Direct sequence modulation

A collective class of signaling techniques are employed before transmitting a signal to provide a secure communication, known…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Cellular concept

The immense potential of conventional telephone cannot be exploited to its maximum due to the limitation imposed by…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
General Concepts

Wireless Communication

INTRODUCTION Wireless communication involves the transmission of information over a distance without the help of wires, cables or…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Markovian processes

A stochastic process is called Markovian (after the Russian mathematician Andrey Andreyevich Markov) if at any time t the conditional probability of an arbitrary future…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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power density spectrum

(Sometimes called power spectrum.) A measure of the contribution to the total variance from a given frequency band in the generalized Fourier…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Bayes’ Theorem

Bayes’ Theorem is a simple mathematical formula used for calculating conditional probabilities. It figures prominently in subjectivist or Bayesian approaches to epistemology,…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Discrete and Continuous Random Variables

 A variable is a quantity whose value changes.   A discrete variable is a variable whose value is obtained by counting.  Examples:     number of…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics relating to the very small.  It results in what may appear…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma
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Oscillations and Waves

Oscillatory Motion Motion of a pendulum is oscillatory.  The pendulum bob rises while it swings to the right,…

September 21, 2021 · Taylor Emma