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Name: The Nyquist Frequency
ID: m0090
Language: English (en)
Summary: The Nyquist Frequency corresponds to the highest frequency at which a signal can contain energy and still be compatible with the Sampling Theorem.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: Nyquist frequency, sampling, sampling theorem, Shannon sampling
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), John Cottrell (jac3@rice.edu)
Latest version: 2.7 (history)
First publication date: Aug 16, 2000 12:00 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Aug 10, 2004 1:22 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m0090_2.7.cnxml

Version History

Version: 2.7 Aug 10, 2004 1:22 pm GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Updated to CNXML 0.5
Version: 2.6 Apr 22, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
changed a couple entity tags that were wrong and changed an emphasis to term
Version: 2.5 Sep 11, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks
Changes: 
Converted to CNXML 0.3.5
Version: 2.4 Aug 16, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
removed reference to a chapter
Version: 2.3 Jun 5, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
keywords and abstract manually added to the text fields of the database.
Version: 2.2 Jun 4, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
fixed a typo
Version: 2.1 Jun 4, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
updated to cnxml 0.3
added keywords, abstract and such.
Redid all presentation mathml in content mathml.

Note that there is still a reference in the text to a quote:Chapter FIX ME:endquote that needs to be gotten rid of. Any other errors, I believe, are style sheet stuff.
Version: 2.0 Aug 16, 2000 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks
Changes: 
Bumped version to 2.0

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