Project
description
In this project you compare optical
fibers with copper wires for transmission of sound or data. Your
experiments may measure signal degradation or noise as factors that may
affect our choices in selecting a transmission media. The experiments in
this project do not need and use any optical fiber. Instead you perform
experiments to show problems with copper wires. You focus on problems
that obviously cannot exist with optical fiber (because of the nature of
the light).We do not
recommend this project
This project may not be acceptable to
many teachers and schools because it contains no experiments with actual
fiber optic lines. The equipment needed for testing fiber may exceed
$25000 in value and require knowledge and expertise that are not
available to young students. That is why in this simplified project the
experiments only show the problems with copper wires. |