Projectile motionProjectile motion is a form of motion experienced by an object or particle (a projectile) that is projected in a gravitational field, such as from Earth's surface, and moves along a curved path under the action of gravity only. In the particular case of projectile motion on Earth, most calculations assume the effects of air resistance are passive and negligible. The curved path of objects in projectile motion was shown by Galileo to be a parabola, but may also be a straight line in the special case when it is thrown directly upward or downward.
Downsampling (signal processing)In digital signal processing, downsampling, compression, and decimation are terms associated with the process of resampling in a multi-rate digital signal processing system. Both downsampling and decimation can be synonymous with compression, or they can describe an entire process of bandwidth reduction (filtering) and sample-rate reduction. When the process is performed on a sequence of samples of a signal or a continuous function, it produces an approximation of the sequence that would have been obtained by sampling the signal at a lower rate (or density, as in the case of a photograph).
Signal électriquevignette|Signaux électriques sur l'écran d'un oscilloscope : signal rectanglaire (haut), signal harmonique ou sinusoïdal (bas). Un signal électrique est une grandeur électrique dont la variation dans le temps transporte une information, d'une source à une destination. La grandeur électrique que l'on considère pour la transmission et le traitement du signal peut être directement la différence de potentiel ou l'intensité d'un courant électrique ; ou bien une modulation de l'amplitude, de la fréquence ou de la phase d'une variation périodique de ces grandeurs, qu'on appelle porteuse ; dans les communications numériques par modem des règles complexes régissent la modulation afin d'occuper au mieux la largeur de bande allouée.
