Why does an AM radio channel require any bandwidth at all? Why can’t it just transmit on a single, precise frequency?

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Why does an AM radio channel require any bandwidth at all? Why can’t it just transmit on a single, precise frequency?

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When you change the amplitude at different times, you *make* different frequencies. Take a pure frequency, AM-modulate it, then in the output of the modulation, analyze the frequencies, and you will discover there’s more than one frequency in it.

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