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- From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
- Subject: Re: Energy within a Digitized Pulse
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:05:04 GMT
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- gingell@aurs01.UUCP (Mike Gingell) writes:
-
- >There is of course NO energy in a DIGITIZED pulse since it is purely
- >numeric. Energy is only meaningful if you translate it back to the
- >real world and assume a smooth curve drawn through the numbers,
- >representing a given voltage in a given impedance for a given amount
- >of time.
-
- >Am I a pedant or what? :-)
-
- >Mike Gingell, Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA (919) 850-6444
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- >Internet: gingell%aurfs1%aurgate@mcnc.org
- Usually you interpret the digital values as Dirac pulses with the appropriate
- amplitude. The energy of a single such pulse is infinite. However,
- the digitized pulses are lowpass-filtered before reproduction, thus achieving
- finite energy again. Without this filtering (even if obly in theory or
- conceptional) energy cannot be calculated.
-