[Boatanchors] AM PEP

[Nick England]

People have a hard time grasping the fact that a single time varying signal
v(t) is comprised of multiple sinusoidal signals at various frequencies
- but that's the truth. The carrier and sidebands are NOT independent.
Their relative amplitudes and phases are strictly determined at all
times by the single time varying signal v(t) and vice-versa.  You can't
separate the time and frequency domains.

Here's a thought experiment - look at a square wave on a scope. Peak and
average values are pretty easy to measure, right? But on a spectrum
analyzer you'll see a zillion harmonics.

Time and frequency are merely two ways of looking at ONE signal.

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Donald Chester <k4kyv at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   ... How can we have "one cycle" at a specific power level, when the AM
> signal consists of three independent components, each with its own distinct
> waveform?
>


-- 
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com