Representing Sound in Binary
Students will learn about sampling rate and bit depth in digitizing sound and its impact on quality.
Key Questions
- Explain the trade-offs between sampling rate, bit depth, and the quality/size of a digital audio file.
- Compare how an analog sound wave is different from its digital representation.
- Predict how reducing the sampling rate would affect the perceived quality of a song.
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