So the exercise is basically a signal $f(t)$ that is going to modulate the carrier $A\cos(\omega_ct)$ using a modulation index of $m=1$. I have to find $A$ and the power of the modulated signal: $$ f(t)=\cos(\omega_mt)+2\cos(2\omega_mt) $$
The minimum amplitude of $f(t)$ is $-2$. Then $A = 2$. The power of the signal is, assuming that $R = 1 \ \Omega$: $$ P = P_c+P_s=\frac{A^2}{2}+\frac{\overline{f^2(t)}}{2} $$
Having in mind that: $$ \overline{f^2(t)}=\frac{1^2}{2}+\frac{2^2}{2}=\frac{5}{2} $$
The power is: $$ P =\frac{A^2}{2}+\frac{\overline{f^2(t)}}{2}=\frac{2^2}{2}+\frac{5}{4}=3.25 $$
In the book the author uses an effective modulation index that is defined as $m_t = \sqrt{m_1^2+m_2^2}$ where $m_1=1/2$ and $m_2 = 2/2$. So the power is: $$ P = P_c\left(1+\frac{m_t^2}{2}\right)=2\left(1+\frac{1.12^2}{2}\right)=3.25 $$
My question is, why would I want to define a modulation index for each tone? What do I get from that?
Another thing that I don't understand is that according to this guy the condition that ensures that there's no overmodulation, regardless of the tone frequencies, is $m_1+m_2\leq1$. Obviously in this case the condition is not met but I'm pretty sure there's no overmodulation with $A=2$.
