PHY 236 — THE SCIENCE OF DIGITAL AUDIO (CUR-420)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Physics and Astrophysics
- College/School: College of Science and Health
- Curriculum section: Physics and Astrophysics
- Catalog: PHY 236
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: yellow (
Prerequisites Required) - Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
- Prerequisites:
- Instructor permission or consent
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Introduction to the physics and mathematics of digital audio, including the conversion of sound energy into electrical signals, the digitization of the signal, conversion of the signal to a standard format, storage of the signal on a hard disk or a CD, and manipulation of the digitized signal. Also includes a discussion of the ethics and legality of downloading digitized audio, in the context of intellectual property rights. This course assumes familiarity with trigonometric mathematical functions. MAT 120 or HON 180 or ( MAT 130 or above) or consent of instructor is a prerequisite for this course.
Hardware relevance
Hardware-related coursework per catalog description review (May 2026).
Notes
Catalog course key: PHY 236.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000359←depaul/SRC-001079(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-236.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-236.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.