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The amplitude of a wave is used to determine its?
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volume/gain
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The height of a wave is the?
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amplitude
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The time it takes for a wave to complete one full cycle (wavelength)
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period
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the range of human hearing?
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20HZ to 20KHZ
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Basic wave characteristics are?
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simple waves
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The combination of many different sound waves
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natural sound waves
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The amount of data given for a sound wave?
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Sample rate
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How good a digital signal reproduces a analog wave is known as
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Fidelity
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CD quality sample rate is
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44.1 khz
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Musical tones whose frequencies are multiples of their fundamental frequencies
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harmonics
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This is the process commonly known as bit depth, bit rate, and sampling precision
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quantization
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The difference in the quietest to the loudest sound in a recording
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dynamic range
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This is the smallest unit into which a display is divided
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pixel
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This is another name for light intensity?
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luminance
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The first video game card was developed by who?
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IBM
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These are made up of triads of red, green and blue phospor dots?
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PIXELS
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ACTS AS AN assistant to the CPU
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Graphics accelerator
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The brain of a video card
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GPU
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These are found on high end graphics cards
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graphics coprocessor
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This port is dedicated solely to graphics
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AGP
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A set of tools used by programmers for accessing the OS when building software applications
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API (application program interface)
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A small program that allows the card to communicate with applications and must be installed and kept to ensure that the video card interacts
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video drivers
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DirectX and OpenGL are types of API for what
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Windows & MAc
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displays contain a metal sheet perforated with small holes known as
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shadow mask
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hundreds of fine strips that run vertically from top to bottom of a screen
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aperture grill
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the distance between two like colored phospors on a shadow mask
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dot pitch
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building blocks of 3d objects
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polygons
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the simplest polygon
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triangle
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