Sound Fundamentals: Digital Audio, Formats, and Production

Understanding Sound

What is Sound?

From a physical point of view, sound is a vibration that propagates in an elastic medium, whether solid, liquid, or gas. When referring to audible sound for the human ear, it is defined as a sensation received by the auditory organ, produced by vibrations propagating through an elastic medium in the form of waves.

Requirements for Sound Production

To produce sound, the following are needed:

  • An issuer or vibrating body.
  • An elastic medium (transmitter of these vibrations)
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Maritime Voice Radiocommunications Regulations & Procedures

Voice Radiocommunications

General Provisions

Unnecessary Transmissions & Interference

Communications should be restricted to those necessary for the safe and expeditious movement of vessels. Unnecessary transmissions are not permitted.

Profane and obscene language is strictly prohibited.

False Distress Signals

False distress signals are strictly prohibited.

Penalties for Violations

Any person who knowingly transmits or causes to be transmitted any false or fraudulent distress signal, call, or message

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The Church of the Gesù in Rome: A Baroque Architectural Landmark

The Church of the Gesù, Rome: Architectural Landmark

Designed by Jacopo Vignola (who provided the treatise) and Giovanni Tristano (who directed the work), the Church of the Gesù in Rome features a facade by Giacomo della Porta. Construction began in 1568, following a project initiated between 1563 and 1568. The church was consecrated between 1584 and 1586, with the facade completed during this period. This church profoundly influenced many subsequent churches of its period and those of the Jesuit

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Características del Lenguaje Humano y su Estudio

Características del Lenguaje Humano

Tiene un carácter de capacidad congénita.

  • No se aprende ni se comparte; es una capacidad innata.
  • Es propia de los seres humanos.
  • Es inmutable, no se altera con el tiempo.

Cuando nace un individuo, nace con la facultad de aprenderla. Ese individuo aprenderá la lengua de las personas que lo rodean. No hay genes que predispongan a una lengua particular, pero sí a la lengua en general.

Permite producir y recibir señales, lo que significa que un individuo puede desempeñar

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Electric Drive Systems Explained

What is an Electric Drive?

An electric drive can be defined as an electromechanical device for converting electrical energy into mechanical energy to impart motion to different machines and mechanisms for various kinds of process control.

An electric drive is an industrial system which performs the conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy or vice versa for running and controlling various processes.

An electric drive is defined as a form of machine equipment designed to convert electrical

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Fundamentals of Television Signals

Differences: Interlaced vs Non-Interlaced Scan

Interlaced: The lines of the image are displayed on the screen by interleaving pairs on one side and odd on the other side.

Non-Interlaced: The lines are all displayed in order.

Differences Between Lines, Field, and Image

The image is divided into horizontal lines; each of these horizontal lines consists of points.

Why a Field Has 312.5 TV Lines

This is explained for several reasons. The first is that each field appears in the middle of the first line and

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