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Nyquist rate

GATE Electronics & Communication · Digital Modulation · 1990-2025

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2025 PYQ

Consider a continuous-time finite-energy signal $f(t)$ whose Fourier transform vanishes outside the frequency interval $\left[-\omega_c, \omega_c\right]$, where $\omega_c$ is in ra...

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2021 PYQ

Consider a real-valued base-band signal $x(t)$. band limited to 10 kHz . The Nyquist rate for the signal $y(t)=x(t) \times \left(1+\frac{t}{2}\right)$ is

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2016 PYQ

An analog baseband signal, band limited to 100 Hz, is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The samples are quantized into four message symbols that occur independently with probabilities $...

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2015 PYQ

Consider a continuous-time signal defined as $$x(t) = \left( {{{\sin \,(\pi t/2)} \over {(\pi t/2)}}} \right)*\sum\limits_{n = - \infty }^\infty {\delta (t - 10n)} $$ Where ' * ' d...

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2014 PYQ

Consider two real valued signals, $$x\left( t \right)$$ band - limited to $$\,\left[ { - 500Hz,\,\,500Hz} \right]$$ and $$y\left( t \right)$$ band - limited to $$\,\left[ { - 1\,\,...

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2014 PYQ

In a PCA system, the signal $$m(t) = \{ \sin (100\,\pi \,t)\, + \cos (100\,\pi \,t\} $$ V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The samples are processed by a uniform quantizer with step...

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2013 PYQ

A band-limited signal with a maximum frequency of 5 kHz is to be sampled. According to the sampling theorem, the sampling frequency which is not valid is

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2011 PYQ

An analog signal is band-limited to 4kHz. sampled at the Nyquist rate and the samples are quantized into 4 levels. The quantized levels are assumed to be independent and equally pr...

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2010 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling rate for the signal $$s(t) = {{\sin \,(500\pi t)} \over {\pi \,t}} \times {{\sin \,(700\pi t)} \over {\pi \,t}}$$ is given by

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2008 PYQ

A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits. If the bit...

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2006 PYQ

The minimum sampling frequency (in samples /sec) required to reconstruct the following signal from its samples without distortion $$x(t) = 5{\left( {{{\sin \,\,2\,\pi \,1000\,t)} \...

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2004 PYQ

Three analog signals, having bandwidths 1200 Hz, 600 Hz and 600 Hz are sampled at their respective Nyquist rates, enocodes with 12 bit words, and time division multiplexed. The bit...

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2001 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling interval, for the signal Sinc(700t) + Sinc(500t) is

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2001 PYQ

A band limited signal is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The signal can be recovered by passing the samples through

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1999 PYQ

Four independent messages have bandwidths of 100Hz, 100 Hz, 200Hz and 400Hz respectively. Each is sampled at the Nyquist rate, and the samples are time division multiplexed (TDM) a...

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1999 PYQ

The Nyquist sampling frequency (in Hz) of a signal given by $$16 \times {10^{4\,}}\,\sin {c^2}(400t)*{10^6}\,\sin {c^3}(100t)$$ is

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1991 PYQ

A signal has frequency components from 300 Hz to 1.8 KHz. The minimum possible rate at which the signal has to be sampled is ______ (fill in the blank).

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1990 PYQ

A 4 GHz carrier is DSB-SC modulated by a low pass message signal with maximum frequency of 2 MHz. The resultant signal is to be ideally sampled. The minimum frequency of the sampli...

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