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What word is used to describe how loud a sound is?
Amplitude
What word is used to describe the pitch of a sound?
Frequency
What device is used to convert sound into binary?
Analogue to digital converter
What is sampling?
Measurements of the sound wave taken at regular intervals
What is meant by sample rate?
The number of samples taken per second
What is sample rate measured in?
Hertz (Hz)
What is sample resolution?
The number of bits used to store each measurement of sound amplitude
What is the formula for calculating file size?
sample rate x sample resolution x time in seconds
Which character set represents billions of characters?
Unicode
Which character set is commonly used for European languages?
ASCII
What is a character set?
A complete collection of characters
What is the name for a base 2 set of values?
Binary
What is the name given for a base 10 set of values?
Denary
What is the name given for a base 16 set of values?
Hexadecimal
What are all the possible 'digits' to represent values in hexadecimal?
0-9, A-F
Give two examples of where hex is used.
MAC addresses, HTML colour codes, error codes
