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| What type of signal produces a continuous and infinately detailed waveform? |
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| What type of signal is not a wave, but a collection of discrete data used to describe an analog wave? |
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| This wave property describes how many wave cycles are completed per second? |
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| Analog to Digital converter to sample a sound wave offers manipulation of these two parameters? |
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| Sampling rate and Quantization |
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| What is Nyquist's theorum? What type of proportion is it? |
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| What is CD Quality Sample rate? |
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| What is DVD Quality Sample rate? |
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| What is broadcast quality sample rate? |
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| What is super audio Sample rate? |
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| What is the maximum frequency you can faithfully record for any given sample rate? |
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| One half of the Sample Rate |
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| What three terms are also used to refer to quantization? |
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| Bit Rate, Bit Depth, Resolution |
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| Quantization is the process of assigning a ___________ value to each sample? |
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| The formula for bit rate is this type of function? |
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| What two factors can be increased to reduce sampling error? |
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| Sampling Rate and Quantization |
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| What term refers to the similarity between the original wave and the digital recording? |
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| What two words make up the word pixel? |
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| What property determines the clarity of a picture onscreen? |
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| What company developed the first video card? |
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| What is the maximum amount of colors produced on a SVGA and UXGA card? |
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| How many variations of each primary color(RGB) are supported by each pixel? |
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| What are the three main types of graphics processors? |
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| Frame Buffers, Graphics Accellerators, and Graphics Coprocessors |
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| What type of RAM do todays video cards use? |
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| What type of card allocates three to four bytes of information for each pixel? |
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| What type of card allocates only one byte to each color? |
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| What is the Digital to Analog converter on a Video Card refered to as? |
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| Which monitor connection never converts the signal to analog? |
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| Which type of video card interface offers a dedicated I/O Connector? |
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| What API creates quality integrated software for Windows based computers? |
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| Which API is vendor neutral? |
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| What two companies dominate the graphics card market? |
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| What do consumer video cards focus on doing well? |
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| Enhancing video playback, gaming, and GUI interactions |
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| What do professional video cards focus on doing well? |
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| What type of video card combines professional and consumer video cards at a reasonable price? |
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| What type of CRT monitor has a flat screen and filters electrons with small wires? |
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| What type of CRT monitor uses a mesh grid to filter electrons? |
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| What is the minimum refresh rate we should set a monitor to? |
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| What measures the area of a screen in pixels? |
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| What term refers to the optimal resolution for an LCD monitor? |
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| What term refers to the difference in light intensity between the brightest white and darkest black? |
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| What do we call the point where two points of an angle intersect? |
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| What do we call the five solids that are made up entirely of regular polygons? |
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| What do we call shapes in which all sides are equal length? |
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| What type of quantity measures magnitude? |
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| What two properties are vector quantities made up of? |
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| What are the terms a matrix is given in? |
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| What type of graphics representation stores information in a matrix? |
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| Sequential representation |
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| What type of graphics representation stores information in an organized list? |
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| What are cases designed to protect computer components from? |
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| ESD, EMI, Outside objects, dust, vibration, etc. |
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| What is one of the main causes of computer component malfunction? |
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| What effect does dust have on a computer? |
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| It is an insulator and it traps heat |
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| What is the long term effect of excessive vibration? |
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| What type of case was designed to be more expandable and cooler than a desktop? |
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| What power supply connector is used for HDD, CD, and DVD drives? |
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| What power connector is used for the floppy drive? |
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| What device acts as a back up power supply? |
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| What device eliminates ripples in the electrical current? |
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