五、(12%) A "mixer" is an RF electric circuit that is commonly used in
communication systems to shift the EM wave's frequency to a desired
frequency band by multiplying an input sinusoidal wave with another sinusoidal
wave. The configuration of a mixer is simply a combination of an electric
multiplier and a band-pass filter (BPF) as shown in the following diagram.
Assume the input vector space is generated by n input sinusoidal waves with the
same non-zero amplitude A, but different frequencies,
and the output vector space is generated by these n "down-converted" sinusoidal waves.
Note: "down-convert" means the frequency is reduced.