=====hpc2 Keywords=====
====Elastic Traffic====


===Definition===
Adjusts over wide ranges to changes in delays and throughput and still meet the needs of its applications.


====Inelastic Traffic====


===Definition===
Does not adapt if at all to changes in delays and throughput.



====Analog Signal====


===Definition===
This is a smooth continuous signal and usually thought of in an electrical context. An advantage of analog is overall quality of a signal being better but analog is a lot harder to reproduce.




====Digital Signal====

===Definition===
This mantains a constant level for some period of time and then abruptly changes. This is a poorer quality than analog but is easier to reproduce.




====Simplex====


===Definition===
A data transmission that can only go one way on the medium

===Demonstration===
A television set. It can only receive signals from the cable company over the coax and display them on youe tv. It cannot receive input from you and senf it back to the cable company over the coax.

====Half Duplex====


===Definition===
There is trnsmission both ways over a medium but the transmissions cannot take place both ways at the same time.

===Demonstration===
Walkie talkies allow two people to communicate both ways but they cannot communicate simultaneously. 

====Absolute Bandwidth====


===Definition===
In a wave refereing to data transfer this is the spot in the wave where most of the energy in the signal is caontained in a realatively narrow band of frequencies.



====Full  Duplex====

===Definition===
There is transmission both ways and at the same time.

===Demonstration===
A telephone allows two end users to communicate and they can also speak simultaneously and neither one of them gets cut out.

=====hpc2 Objective=====
====hpc2 Objective====
State the course objective

===Definition===
In your own words, define what that objective entails.

===Method===
State the method you will use for measuring successful academic/intellectual achievement of this objective.

===Measurement===
Follow your method and obtain a measurement. Document the results here.

===Analysis===
Reflect upon your results of the measurement to ascertain your achievement of the particular course objective.

  * How did you do?
  * Is there room for improvement?
  * Could the measurement process be enhanced to be more effective?
  * Do you think this enhancement would be efficient to employ?
  * Could the course objective be altered to be more applicable? How would you alter it?