MODERN ENGINEERING

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•  How does engineering differ from the work of scientists?

• What steps are involved in doing good engineering design?

• See Chapter 1 Concepts to Know

CREATING DIGITAL MUSIC

•  See Chapter 2 Concepts to Know

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MAKING DIGITAL IMAGES
 

•  See Chapter 3 Concepts to Know

IMAGING HARDWARE

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• The Physics 2000 website should be your major source of how these devices function.

• The concepts to know sheet can be found here

MATH YOU CAN SEE

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• The focus will be on matrix operations (see Matrix and Quaternion FAQ for additional help)
• Know how to do the following matrix operations:
  > multiply [A] * [B]
  > add  [A] + [B]
  > subtract  [A] - [B] (how is this used in the image tracker?)
  > multiply by a factor k*[A] (what effects can this produce?)
  > multiply by the identity matrix (how is this used in animation for successive frames?)
  > visit the Matrix Multiplication Demonstration to see this in action
• Be able to explain and demonstrate (and discuss the trade-offs in processing) for these digital imaging processes:
  > edge detection
  > motion tracking operations
  > noise removal
  > sharpening/deblurring and smoothing/blurring (neighborhood matrix operations)
  > methods of partitioning an image for detection
  > object counting VAB block
• Visit the computer graphics, cool imaging effects, fractal planets, and digital space imaging website collections to further explore these concepts and see them illustrated.

DIGITIZING THE WORLD

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• Bits & Bytes
• Text as Numbers : Coding
• Maintaining Signal Quality
• Compression Ratios
• Binary Arithmetic
• Sampling Rates
• Nyquist Rate
• Aliasing (resolution, spatial, temporal)
• Quantization : Rounding numbers
• Bit depth or bit resolution
• Clipping a signal due to quantization
• ASCII Code for Text
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
• Decibel (dB) & Logarithmic Scales
• Engineering as an iterative process

CODING for STORAGE & SECRECY

COMMUNICATING with 1's & 0's

• The chapter outline

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NETWORKS & THE INTERNET

• The chapter outline