YEAR 11 Physics

SEMESTER 1, 2007

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Assessment Task No: 1

Research Task: Mobile Phones

Introduction:

The following report will give the reader information about mobile phones.

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It will inform the reader about how a mobile phone works, the history and development of mobile phones, the impact on health and society, and the future predictions about mobile phones.

History and Development:

A mobile phone is a radio- a really sophisticated radio- but a radio nonetheless.

The basis of a mobile phone had started off by a radio. This is because a phone uses a set line to send and receive a message or a call. But by using the concept of radios, the average radio has made the typical telephone into a cellular phone. The radio used to be, and still is, used as communication device in taxis and police cars, where one vehicle could communicate with another with no set line. With this concept, the mobile phone was developed.

With the creation of the mobile phone, there was a whole new world to develop and update on. Since the invention of the mobile phone, there have been a vast amount of developments and additions made to the mobile phone. The old mobile used to have a battery life of about three hours, but now the new generation phones can run for three days continually.

The old generation phones could only make and receive calls but these days phones can send messages, take photos, find the nearest restaurant, receive the latest stock market results, read the latest movie reviews, internet connection, listen to music, watch a video clip and a substantial amount of other things as well.

Fig 1: Development of the

The mobile phone is one of the most worked on Mobile Phone.

technical device throughout modern history.

Fig 2: Basic route of a mobile phone call.

Phone calls are made all the time, but not many people know how the execution of a Fig 3: Mobile Cells phone call is carried out. The procedure of phone communication is accomplished at a rapid rate.

The process of a phone call is as follows:

The digits of the desired destination phone are dialled on the call originating mobile phone.

The dialled digits are received by the nearest cellular tower (repeater) and then transferred to the (NOC) network operation centre.

The computers in the network operation centre locate the desired destination.

After confirming the access rights of the originating mobile phone and the status of the destination phone, the NOC sends a digitally coded message to the destination phone.

The destination phone alerts the user to the incoming call.

If the user at the destination phone accepts the call, the NOC sends a digitally coded message to the mobile phone.

In final step to setup the call, the originating mobile phone disconnects the ring back tone and enters the voice transmission mode. The two users then start to have a conversation.

Fig 4: Cellular Towers

The digitally coded messages are transmitted in a carrier wave known as a microwave. This is transmitted with a frequency of around 900 MHz.

The digitally coded messages aren't just pulled out of the air, they are created. The following flowchart will show the process of the energy that creates the digitally coded messages:

Impacts of Mobile Phones on Society and Health:

History has shown that once a new invention or an upgrade is produced, there always a positive view and a negative view. This part of the report with discuss this matter.

Society:

Positive View:

With the invention of the mobile phone, it is much easier to contact people. This helps the general community in many ways. For example in case of an emergency, a mobile phone has helped a significant amount of times. Also the mobile phone has become a necessity these days. This because of its compactness and all the features that come with a mobile phone. These days you can read the news, listen to music and do many more things. This has a great impact on society because it lessens the work and makes the work easier. These factors are very important not only in society but in life as well.

The compactness of a mobile has many attractions. For example, it is a digital camera that lets you make and receive calls. The freedom that is given to the camera phone is stimulating a revolution to be. A sign of this revolution is showing due to the fact nearly everyone has a mobile phone.

Negative View:

Some people are attached to the "good old days". They say that it used to be simpler back then. A person didn't have to buy a device to look for a restaurant or pay to contact someone.

Another factor is that the type of mobile phone you have can sometimes give you a social status. The especially occurs in teenagers. These days the type of mobile phone you own determines how "cool" you are.

With an invention there is always some advertising that is bound to come. With this advertising there is some misleading advertising. Some of these advertisements are too good to be true. This leads to people being sucked in which can create problems.

Health:

Positive View:

The future of mobile phones hopefully will show some health beneficial aspects of the mobile phone.

Negative View:

A great amount of debates are going on that if a mobile phone can be harmful to a person. Because a mobile phone uses radiation waves to transmit the signals to its destination, people are saying that these waves could be harmful to the human body. Some case studies have shown this theory to be true in some sense. The future will give the answer to this debate.

Future Trends:

As mentioned in the positive health views of mobile phones, hopefully the future will present the human race with a phone that can be helpful to humans. Brain-storming has come up with some ideas.

They are:

Health monitoring mobile phones.

Immediate emergency contact to emergency services if something is wrong with a person

Some other ideas are:

Your mobile phone could become your identity. Just swipe your phone and you get your personal information.

Movies could be on demand

Parents could benefit with a monitor of kids actions.

Bibliography:

Written Source:

Camera Phone Obsession

By Pete G Aitken

Published by Paraglyph Press in USA 2004

Pgs 2-5

In Touch Telephone and Fax

By Angela Royston

Published by Heinman Library in Great Britain 2001

Pgs 10-11, 16-19, 24-25

New Technology Communications

By Nigel Hawks

Published by Aladdin Books in Great Britain 1994

Pgs 10-11

20th Centaury Inventions: Telecommunications

By Chris Oxlade

Published by Wayland Publishers Ltd in England 1996

Pgs 16-17, 24-25

How Does it Work: Communications Technology

By J Hilvert and L Bruce

Published by McMillan Education Australia in 2005

Pgs 8-11

Internet Source:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Mobile_Phones_-_Health_and_Society_-_Cancer

http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Mobile_Phones_-_Health_and_Society_-_Children

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Microphone converts the sound energy into electrical energy.

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Destination phone receives the electrical energy in microphone

Microphone converts electrical energy into sound energy

Sound energy is then heard by the ear.