Re: whats with this love of kaffiene?

Tim:
I could never get any lecturer to give a sane explanation of AM. They'd
tell us that the carrier was a fixed amplitude. I'd argue that AM was
modulating the carrier, therefor it has a varying one. I'd even
demonstrate by cranking the pot up and down to give a 1 Hertz AM. None
of them could give a reasonable explanation. Yes, they could give
strange ones, but none that fitted the situation demonstrated.


Guy Fraser:
It isn't that simple unless you are only learning the basics. If you
are learning theory and fundamentals it is far more complex. You did
not do a detailed analysis of the signal you generated to determine
the constituent parts of the resulting signal, so your demonstration
was in no way a proof.

Well, proof in as much as I was "modulating the carrier" as the name AM
implies. And with simple detection, you could get the modulating signal
back out the other end. Elsewhere I'd used circuitry where you fed
carrier and signal into a VCA, and created AM in a similar method,
albeit less "hands-on". ;-) i.e. Signal was actually modulating
carrier strength, it wasn't a case of "mixing" signal with carrier.

I could never get any lecturer to explain what AM really was, if it
wasn't actually AM. They seemed to treat much of it as if it were some
religion, that you'd have to accept on faith.

But, yes, this was the basic introductory part of the course to RF, some
20 odd years ago. And thanks to the lack of good teaching in that part
of the course, I didn't continue on with RF. I left that alone, and did
other aspects. If they couldn't teach the basics, what's the point of
having the same lecturer for the next part of the course? I don't do
learning by rote, and have very little respect for anybody who does.

I did ask other students if they understood it, and didn't find any that
did. You can't do that sort of thing without understanding it,
certainly not properly. They all treated it like some sort of magic.

I'm sure the same (useless) approach is taught with computing, these
days. It might explain why so much is so bad.

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