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analog computer
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machine for calculating dynamic behavior by analog electronics or mechanic analogies
Research
8,893 papers- Analog and digital computer theory.International journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 1987
- ANALOG COMPUTER MODEL OF THE VECTORCARDIOGRAM.Circulation · 1965
- A critical evaluation of the gas chromatographic technique for identification ad determination of fatty acid esters, with particular reference to the use of analog and digital computer methods.Methods of biochemical analysis · 1969
- Brain-computer relationships.Progress in brain research · 1970
- Age-dependent disposition of amobarbital: analog computer evaluation.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 1978
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Encyclopedic overview
A page from the Bombardier's Information File (BIF) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight, a highly sophisticated optical/mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately TR-10 desktop analog computer of the late 1960s and early 1970s
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities behaving according to the mathematical principles in question (analog signals) to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude (digital signals).
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