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Q.Distinguish between an analogue signal and a digital signal, giving one everyday example of each.

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An analogue signal varies smoothly and continuously over a range, with no smallest meaningful step -- an ordinary microphone's electrical output, directly following the continuously varying pressure of a sound wave, is a typical example. A digital signal is restricted to only a small, FIXED set of discrete levels -- almost always exactly two, HIGH (logic 11) and LOW (logic 00) -- a computer's internal data, built from transistor switches (Section 9.23) that themselves have only …

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