Good morning students and teachers, today I will be talking to you about the technology and physics behind the Compact disc otherwise known as the CD
Everybody knows that the CD is slowly fading out and being replaced by a digital world where files and streams are the main methods of music delivery. But the CD is not yet done.
What is a CD? A CD is a thin circular disc comprised of metal and plastic, the CD is about 12cm in diameter and is usually made up of 3 layers, it is capable of storing up to 74 minutes of audio but usually only has 50 minutes stored on it to make sure it is at optimal function, the digital data that can be stored on a CD is; 44 100 samples per second, therefore, you can store 682 MB on a CD that is capable of 74
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Lacquer is used rather than the polycarbonate due to the positioning of the metal film.
The metal layer of the CD is the layer that contains the data. CD data is represented as tiny indentations known as "pits”, these pits are encoded in a spiral track that if unrolled from it spiral would be around 5.5 km long, the spiral is moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer, these are microscopic and usually expressed in the measurement of a micron µm which is 1 millionth of a meter. The areas between pits are known as "lands". The pits are even smaller than the lands and are approximately 100 nm deep by 500 µm wide, and vary from 850 µm to 3.5 µm in length. The measurement of the pit represents the binary information of the data stored on the disc.
The optical system employs a highly coherent light source and the pits are made approximately a quarter wavelength deep. The readout beam axis is nominally aligned to be perpendicular to the disc plane. When there are no pit-land edges in the spot, all of the reflected beam will share the same phase. The phase of the reflected beam will, however, change by 180 degrees when the spot moves from pit to land or vice versa. When the optical spot traverses a pit-land edge the magnitude of the beam reflected back into the sensor will momentarily drop almost to zero...The reflected beam then consists of two portions, equal in magnitude but opposite in phase.
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Answer: Type sed s/misc/other/ CD_list_new > CD_list_replace and press Enter. Type comm CD_list CD_list_replace and press Enter. You might mention to students that another to do this is to type sed s/misc/other/ CD_list_new | cat > CD_list_replace.
There are many sub-groups of these discs, but the main types of discs are CD, DVD, and Blue-ray. The optical disc is placed into a DVD recorder and information is written to the disc. The data is written in contiguous format on the disc. A recorder will not write data to an optical disc if that data is bigger than the optical disc. A DVD disc can handle a data amount of 4.88 GB. The compression of an optical disc is handled by the program that is used to burn the disc. The data is written to an optical disc using a laser. This laser burns the data into the bottom of the disc. The use of different wave length of the laser actual help burn more data into the bottom of the disc. However, the drawbacks of an optical disc are that they cannot be placed in direct sunlight. The plastic that the disc is made of can warp in sunlight and corrupt the data on the disc. There is also the problem of scratches and dents making the surface of the disc hard for the laser to read.(AMERICAN,
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CD? What is the value of the CD at the end of the year? Explain
And it was the earliest printed document in the world. In the story Guns, Germs and steel Linear A and linear Bitch scripts the disk signs where punched into soft clay by stamps that bore a sign as raised type. That disk shows how technology helped them back then, that disk now will be what we call today the iPhone. Now today we have iPhones and androids to help us preety much do anything we need to know. One side of the disk has coding and the other side had some more writings on it.
c. Linux supports both the UDF and iso9660 file systems for CD and DVD use.
DVD-ROM:Digital Versatile disk read only memory is used for storing large software applications. It permanently stores the data which is not erased or over written. It stores more than 4GB of data.
Major Components The major components of a CDSS are as follows: •
Creating a CD involves the use of musical knowledge and skills to successfully complete the individual study. I am not a very organised person and I found it difficult to follow my 32-week planner as interruptions and setbacks would put me behind and I was unable to catch up. After realising I was falling behind I created a new planner enabling me to catch up the work I had missed and produce
In 2000 the digital music was the next big thing in how consumers listen to music. The technological shift in music changed how the relationship is between the artists, recording companies, promoters and music stores on how they operate today. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks allowed free exchange of music files with companies like Napster and Kazaa was a big step that allowed consumers to store large libraries of music. With the cost of hard drive space going down; it allowed for pocket-sized computers to store more information in a smaller space that open the door for apple to step in with the unveiling of the iPod and iTunes. These systems made it possible for storage and playback that gave consumers the
It is the type of disk in which the space is fixed. it doesn’t matter how much data you store.
With those pieces missing it gives the music a much more crisp sound. “Subtleties like the overtones of violins and parts of the harmonic texture of music are simply omitted in a CD recording,” says Carl Smith, Owner and Vice President of Well Tempered Lab. “So what you have is a superficially superior sound” (Day 92). Superficial in the sense that analog recording is a more natural recording while digital is more crisp and clear. Another positive aspect of digital recording over analog recording is that digital recording has a much better bass sound. The bass is much easier to hear in a digital recording. Analog recording has low bass sound because for an LPs or records it needs big grooves for the bass and LPs and records use smaller grooves.
Are you the type of person who spends twenty dollars on a CD, just because you like one song, and the remaining tracks are disappointing? Did you know that you can have your whole CD collection in your computer's hard drive? Are you tired of listening to the unexciting music played on the radio? Would you like to be able to make your own CDs? These days it is fairly cheap to have internet access and a computer that will let you record, store, discover, and download music. In the past, being able to do this was very expensive and difficult, but when the Mp3 format appeared and Cd recorders became inexpensive, this revolutionized the way we experience music. All you need is the right software and
MP3 is an audio compression that speeds up the transfer of digital music files. By shrinking the size of the track, downloads take only a fraction of the time that they used to. MP3’s also feature solid-state technology, flash memory and the ability to download and store high fidelity music. With
I believe that at the heart of this controversy is a drive to bring music production into the twenty-first century. Making CD's more accessible, economical and usable benefits all everyone except maybe the CD producers, in the end. Listeners can access music when, where and how they want to for less money, as the have grown accustomed to doing. Musicians cut out the middleman, allowing them to keep more of the profit. This is undoubtedly the future of the industry. While companies are searching for ways to hold on to 90 percent of the profit and to continue to combat illegal downloading, others are negotiating new terrain