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Amplitude Modulation and Phase Modulation…

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From Tau De Ching

Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;
Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;
Justify yourself and you will not be respected;
Promote yourself and you will not be believed;
Pride yourself and you will not endure.

These behaviours are wasteful, indulgent,
And so they attract disfavour;
Harmony avoids them.

2 major types of Spread Spectrum are:

• Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
• Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)

words…

1. veracity - unwillingness to tell lies 
2. Corinthian Column - n classical architecture, a column decorated at the top with a mixed bag of curlicues, scrolls and other lavish ornamentation.
3. assault - close fighting during the culmination of a military attack 
4. intransignent - 
5. obscure - not clearly understood or expressed; “an obscure turn of phrase”; “an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit
6. thwart - a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat 
7. forfeit - something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
8. rescind - To cancel a contract
9. flagrant - onspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
10. denuded - stripped of all vegetative cover as after a severe disturbance such as a landslide

Complex question presupposes a hidden meaning. types of complex questions include…

1. loaded question
   E.g. Are you still beating your wife? 
2. buttering up
   E.g. Would you wanna be a nice girl and pack up all your toys? 
3. Legitimately complex questions (not a fallacy)
   Who is the Queen of England?
4. Illegitimately complex question
   Who is the King of France?
5. Implied Dilemma (not a fallacy)

some more words…

1. acuteness – keenly perceptive
2. muse – a guiding point/poet
3. syllogism - A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
4. tenous – long and thin
5. liturgy - A prescribed form or set of forms for public religious worship
6. gargoyles - a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building
7. dirge – mournful hymn
8. engender - To bring into existence; give rise to

some more words…

1. gall – bitterness of feeling
2. connoisseurs – experts in fine arts
3. preclude – to make impssoble/exclude
4. mitigate - To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate.
5. ratify - To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm
6. unfettered – to set free
7. inscrutable – difficult to understand
8. perspicacity – acuteness of perception/understanding
9. Occidentals – Western Christian 
10. fathom – to comprehend

Normal distribution/Gaussian distribution has many applications.

All normal density curves satisfy the following property:

• 68% of the observations fall within 1? of the mean, that is, between ? – ? and ? + ?.
• 95% of the observations fall within 2? of the mean, that is, between ? – 2? and ? + 2?.
• 99.7% of the observations fall within 3? of the mean, that is, between ? – 3? and ? + 3?.
• Almost all values lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean.

Thales’ theorem states that if A, B and C are points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter of the circle, then the angle ABC is a right angle. Thales’ theorem is a special case of the inscribed angle theorem.

The converse of Thales’ theorem is also valid; it states that a right triangle’s hypotenuse is a diameter of its circumcircle.

some words…

• codify – to systematise
• veto –  to forbid/prohinit
• underlay – to support
• supplant – to displace
• disingenuous - Not straightforward or candid

Who

• answers the subject of the question
• the answer of the question should be the object form of pronoun
• E.g. Who wrote the codes? He wrote!

Each

• means is one by one. 
• Each can be followed by a verb. E.g. Each soldier received a medal.
• Each means two. E.g. She was wearing a bangle in each hand.
• Each can be followed by ‘of’. E.g. I spoke to each of them.

there are many ways of using one of:

• singular verb: one of, one of the, only one of, only one of those
• plural verb: one of those who, one of the things that

When a verb in the participle form is used as an adjective, it is called a participial adjective.

There are 2 forms of participial adjectives:

1. -ing (present participle): cause of the feeling.  E.g. The drink was refreshing.
2. -ed (past participle): receiver of the feeling. E.g. I feel refreshed.

In English, there are 2 ways to join a sentence: Subordination or Coordination.

Subordination is used for emphasising one part:

Time:  when, whenever, after, as, before, once, since, till, until, now, that, while, as long as, as soon as.
Concession:  though, although, even though, if, while.
Contingency:  if, once
Condition:  if, in case, as long as, unless provided that.
Reason:  because, since, as long as.
Result:  so, so that.
Comparison:  as, just as, as if.
Contrast:  while, whereas.

Coordination is used for equal emphasis:

and, or, but, yet, nor, for. 

What is the difference between rather than and instead of ?

Rather than suggests preference or choice. 

Instead of suggests replacement.

Relative pronouns are: that, who, whom, whose, which, where, when, and why.

This table (OWL Purdue) summarises the usage of these pronouns…

There are 2 forms of pronouns:

1. subject form: I, you, he, she, it, we, they
2. object form: me, you, him, her, it, us, them