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9. Tell me more about analog communication.
The term analog refers to any physical device or signal that can continuously vary in
strength or quantity, for example, voltage in a circuit. The term analog communication
refers to any method of communication based on analog principles. Typically, this term is
associated with voice transmission instead of data transmission because voice transmis-
sion facilities, such as the telephone, were initially analog-based. The “other” type of
physical communication is digital communication, which we’ll talk about later.
10. What does harmonic motion have to do with analog ...