Problems:
1. Why is it not possible to connect sensors such as thermocouples, strain gauges, and
accelerometers directly to a digital computer or microprocessor?
2. Assuming that the bandwidth of an audio music track is 15 kHz, what is the
minimum sampling rate necessary to digitize the track with high fidelity for storage
on an audio CD?
3. Plot two periods of the function V(t) = sin(t) + sin(2t) at time intervals
corresponding to 1/3, 2/3, 2, and 10 times the Nyquist frequency. Comment on the
results.
4. Given a 12-bit A/D converter operating over a voltage range from -5V to 5V, how
much does the input voltage have to change in order to be detectable?
9. Using 4X quadrature decoder, what is the maximum and minimum velocity that can
be measured by a 16-bit microprocessor sampling at 10 kHz with a 1000 radial lines
code disk?
10. If each line of a coded disk represents 1 mm, repeat question 9 to determine the
minimum and maximum acceleration expressed in g’s. (1g = 9.8 / ).