Any pointers for the question below? struggling as to where to start.
Your company produces radio transmitters and part of that circuit uses a ring modulator to multiply a high frequency sinusoidal carrier signal with a much lower frequency audio signal to transmit over long distances using amplitude modulation, (AM).
The ring modulator circuit works by multiplying together the 125 kHz carrier signal, Vc, and the 10 kHz audio signal, Va, to produce the transmitted modulated signal output, Vo. The two signals and the output from the ring modulator are described as follows:
𝑉𝑐=4cos(2𝜋125∗103𝑡)
𝑉𝑎=2cos(2𝜋10∗103𝑡)
𝑉𝑜=[4+2cos(2𝜋10∗103𝑡)]cos(2𝜋125∗103𝑡)=[4+𝑉𝑎][𝑉𝑐4]=𝑉𝑐+[𝑉𝑎𝑉𝑐4]
Use one of the graphical packages listed at the beginning of this assignment to plot 𝑉𝑐, 𝑉𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑉𝑜, and include a screenshot of your plot as part of your submission. Ensure the scale of both axes is carefully chosen to clearly show the detail of all 3 waveforms.
If you drew a smooth curve linking the peaks of the positive half cycles of the output waveform, Vo, which is called the envelope of the waveform, what can you observe about that curve?