Questions on Telecommunications and Lasers

1. Please explain how a voice signal is sent from a radio station to your radio and into your room.
2. What is the carrier wave? What is the signal wave in telecommunication?
3. Explain how AM and FM radio work.  What is modulated and how does this carry information?
4. What is the advantage of FM over AM, and vice versa?
5. What can cause noise in AM and FM signal transfers?
6. How is Morse code telegraphy different from radio and TV transmissions?
7. How are signals digitized? Give an example of this.
8. What is the advantage of digital versus analog?
9. What is the base 10 equivalent of the binary number: 1101? Of: 0001101?
10. What is bit rate? How is it related to the carrier frequency?