Lectures · S05 — Transmission impairments and channel limits
Week 3 · Class 1 · Sep 27–Oct 1

S05 — Transmission impairments and channel limits

Week 3 of 12Class 1 · 80 minvideo lecture video lectureanimation clip 1 animationinteractive demo 2 live demospractice questions practice ready

Reading: Forouzan 5th ed. §3.4–3.5 — attenuation, noise, Nyquist and Shannon

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Animations — with voice-over

The animations from the lecture, cut out on their own. Each keeps its narration; turn captions on with the CC button once it is playing.

Attenuation along the wire

Try it — Why noise limits the bit rate

Why noise limits the bit ratedemo_channel_capacity.htmlopen full screen ↗

Try it — Build a link out of dB blocks

Build a link out of dB blocksdemo_db_chain.htmlopen full screen ↗

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