People here have been talking about FM and Phase modulation. A little over a year ago I wrote about the differences between FM and PM.
Lately I’ve been playing around with Lucid Chart to make diagrams, so I made one of how a simple FM VCO works. It’s in the first page of the article, which is here:
Btw, anyone know how to post a link to an md file on line, and not have this forum software expand it like that? I just want a link that you need to click on. Or possibly a link where I can point at an arbitrary image to display.