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5db?
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Updated Jan 30 2015
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The reasoning is simple. For any amplier or a lter (low pass lters and band pass lters
have a dened bandwidth), their gain falls with frequency as you will know. So we need to My Roommate is using too much bandwidth?
dene a range of frequency where the given circuit will be a "good" amplier or lter. This
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has been dened as the frequency where the output signal's power is half of the power at
low frequencies (frequency=0). Hence the denition of bandwidth is the frequency at which
the output signal's power becomes half of its maximum (which occurs at DC frequency).

Now why 3dB? This has got to do with the fact that people tend to use logarithmic scale
(atleast on the magnitude axis) when dealing with the frequency response of ampliers. You
will know from acoustics that the decibel value for a sound signal's power is given as
Psignal
Ldb = 10log10 ( ), where Psignal is the power of the signal and Pref is a reference
Pref

power ( 10 12 W if I remember it correctly). A similar usage is done in Electrical

Engineering. Thus if P0 is the output when a very low frequency signal is applied and P0.5
is the power at the input signal's frequency where it becomes half of the low frequency
power, then the dierence of these 2 powers in the decibel scale is
P P
 P0.5 P0.5
Lhalf Llowf req = 10log10 (
P0
) which can be computed to be -3dB given P0
= 0.5.

Thus it can be seen that in the decibel scale, at the "half power" frequency in the decibel
scale, the signal power is 3dB lower than the low frequency power. Hence it is 3dB.

Hope this clears the reasoning!

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3db is the power level, its the frequency at which the power is at 3db below the maximum What is the bandwidth in US?
value and 3db means in normal unit its half the maximum power so 3db frequency means
the frequency at which the power is half the maximum value so its decided the cutto
frequency. actually the frequency corresponding to 3dB magnitude is considered as
bandwidth of the signal or of the system. This is taken as a standard reference frequency
beyond which the response is not very important from the system analysis point of
view.The -3dB point is at the start of the attenuation.
Frequencies beyond that are attenuated at a 20 dB per decade of frequency (per pole)
beyond the -3dB frequency.

The -3dB, come from 20 Log (0.707) or 10 Log (0.5).

to determine the bandwidth of signal, when decrease the voltage from maximum to
0.707Max or decreasing the power from max to half power.
The -3dB point is also known as the "half power" point. In voltage it may not make not make
tons of sense as to why we use (2/22/2), but lets look at an example of what it means in
the sense of power.

First, P=V^2/R, but lets assume R is a constant 1 . Because of the constant 1 ohm, we can
remove it from the equation all together.

Lets say you have a signal at 6 V, its power would then be (6 V)^2=36 W. What is the real bandwidth of 4G?

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Now I take the -3dB point, 6 V(2/2)=4.2426 V.
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Now lets get the power at the -3dB point, 4.2426 V^2 = 18 W.
bandwidth?
So originally we had 36 W, now we have 18 W (which of course is half of 36 W).
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Besides previous answers, quite useful from an Engineering viewpoint, you might want to
know a more Physical reason for your question. If this is the case, think about a simple
capacitor (a Resistance-Capacitance parallel circuit, capacitors without a shunting
resistance R do not exist at temperatures over T=0 K) and put some electrical energy on it,
thus a voltage V at time t=0. If you measure the time evolution of this voltage you will nd
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that it decays exponentially with time. This means that the voltage reduction at each
instant of time is proportional to the voltage existing at such instant. To say it bluntly: the How can I limit bandwidth on Android?
voltage V has a lifetime that is the time constant Tau=RC (in seconds) of this parallel circuit
whose stored energy is dened by its voltage. Which one is better, a high bandwidth or a low
bandwidth?
The inverse of this lifetime gives an angular frequency (in rad/s) that is w=1/(RC), which in
turn denes a frequency fc=w/(2Pi). The meaning of this fc is that the synthesis of a What is an explanation of bandwidth?

sinusoidal voltage of this frequency in the capacitor requires the same amplitude A of Does an increase in bandwidth decrease noise?
current through C (thus in quadrature with the synthesized voltage) than the amplitude of
current through R (thus in-phase with the synthesized voltage). This means that the What does fiber optic bandwidth mean?
aforesaid synthesis of sinusoidal voltage in this Two-Terminal Device (2TD) takes an
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amount of reactive power linked with C that is equal to the active power linked with R.
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Therefore, the total power entering the above 2TD (no matter if it is a capacitor or a resistor,
both share the same R-C circuit) is 50% reactive power responsible for Fluctuation of energy My Roommate is using too much bandwidth?
in the 2TD and 50% active power responsible for Dissipation (actually Conversion into heat
in this example) in the 2TD. Scientists speaking about electrical noise should handle in this What is the bandwidth in US?

way the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem derived from Callen & Welton pioneering work
(1951).. Anyway, this gives you the physical reason why you observe 50% power at fc if you
measure voltage on the C of the low-pass, rst order R-C lter or if you measure voltage on
the R of the high-pass, rst order R-C lter both driven by an input voltage generator Vg.

To say it bluntly: when you are measuring any of the above two lters driven by the input
generator Vg, you actually are measuring the voltage on BOTH (R and C) or in our
Engineering language: you are measuring the voltage on the Complex Admittance formed
by R and C in parallel, driven by a current generator of value (Vg/R) Amps. The latter
sentence simply requires a Thevenin-Norton transform, very familiar to us, the Electrical
Engineers (EE), but not well known as most EE use to believe. Perhaps, this is enough for
you, but if you feel curiousity about electrical noise and electrical conduction, you may nd
interesting this open access paper:
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A Fluctuation-Dissipation Model for Electrical Noise.
Jos-Ignacio Izpura, Javier Malo
Circuits and Systems. 01/2011; 2:112-120.
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