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Why not work with the complete signal, instead of breaking it into in-phase and quadrature components?
Why do we need in-phase & quadrature components of a signal?
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Usually that is done because you want to work with a lower frequency version of the signal. Either demodulated to baseband or to some Intermediate frequency.
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It is quite possible to deal with the signal as it comes - a variation of Voltage with time. Some processes are just easier to accomplish in the frequency domain and using complex numbers. When I say "easier", that assumes that your a familiar with that stuff. If you aren't then those processes could be pretty hard to comprehend in either time or frequency domains. It gets difficult pretty rapidly. 
I guess a simple answer is that quadrature components of a signal; are orthogonal to each other and the components can be treated separately and independently. You could, for example, get two AM signals transmitted together on quadrature carriers and then recover them separately. But you would need to keep the quadrature relationship going throughout the process.
I guess a simple answer is that quadrature components of a signal; are orthogonal to each other and the components can be treated separately and independently. You could, for example, get two AM signals transmitted together on quadrature carriers and then recover them separately. But you would need to keep the quadrature relationship going throughout the process.
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Thank you...DaleSpam said:
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Thank you...sophiecentaur said:It is quite possible to deal with the signal as it comes - a variation of Voltage with time. Some processes are just easier to accomplish in the frequency domain and using complex numbers. When I say "easier", that assumes that your a familiar with that stuff. If you aren't then those processes could be pretty hard to comprehend in either time or frequency domains. It gets difficult pretty rapidly.
I guess a simple answer is that quadrature components of a signal; are orthogonal to each other and the components can be treated separately and independently. You could, for example, get two AM signals transmitted together on quadrature carriers and then recover them separately. But you would need to keep the quadrature relationship going throughout the process.