WARNING: This is going to get nerdy really fast.
You know when you have a waveform of some kind, but the signal is amplified beyond your your instrumentation's ability to measure, it gets clipped. Something like this:
I think this weekend I maxed out my ability to emote positively. Like, somehow by Sunday evening I had exceeded my capacity for happiness. That's not to say that I was in any way unhappy. I was very happy. But things that would have under normal circumstances made me happier could not.
And I'm not even an electrical engineer...
4 comments:
ah, the signal has saturated. you could always decrease the amplitude of the response to the input signal. actually, i would have to assume that using your emotional state as the input signal, it is not really a true sinusoid, (at least i hope not!) so you could just add a negative offset to shift the signal within an acceptable range.
similarly, with respect to amplifiers and gain, there is a concept called the slew rate of the amplifier. it is a physical limitation which limits the degree of the change with respect to the speed of the change.
A rate limitation is interesting... perhaps that's really what was going on.
And I apologize for any confusion. I did not mean to imply in any sense that my emotional state was sinusoidal!
Ah, a little aliasing.
From an Ultra-sound tech
Guess
you're too obvious, Dad.
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