A digital hydrophone is used to monitor underwater seismic activity. The continuous analogue acoustic pressure waves are captured and converted into a binary format by measuring the wave's amplitude at discrete, regular intervals.
Define the term 'sample resolution' in the context of this digital audio conversion.
40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Data representation, covering Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII, Representing bitmap images in binary, Representing analogue sound in binary, and Limitations of binary representation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.