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New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2014, Introductory 17th Edition by June Jamrich Parsons,Dan Oja

Edition 17ISBN: 978-1285766997
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New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2014, Introductory 17th Edition by June Jamrich Parsons,Dan Oja

Edition 17ISBN: 978-1285766997
Exercise 1
You're visiting an antique shop and notice a collection of old-fashioned radios. They actually feature a dial for tuning in different radio stations. You immediately recognize this as a(n)
You're visiting an antique shop and notice a collection of old-fashioned radios. They actually feature a dial for tuning in different radio stations. You immediately recognize this as a(n)     device because it deals with an infinite scale of values, rather than discrete values. device because it deals with an infinite scale of values, rather than discrete values.
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Analog devices
Analog device is a device which is the combination of analog machine and analog media. Both of these can measure or record the continuous information such as voltage, resistance, rotation, pressure, light, sound, temperature and motion.
Analog device produce signals in form of as continuously changing physical quantities. These analog signals are transmitted after modulating the original signal with carrier signal which is also a continuous transmission signal. For example: Radio waves.
Therefore, the appropriate word to fill in the blank is Analog.
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