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Timeline for Understanding the phase in DFT

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Jul 17, 2019 at 21:17 comment added Cedron Dawg @Machupicchu Yes. Each bin corresponds to a component with with a frequency of its bin index in cycles per frame. I recommend you read the following of my articles in this order: dsprelated.com/showarticle/754.php dsprelated.com/showarticle/1238.php dsprelated.com/showarticle/768.php dsprelated.com/showarticle/1284.php Then follow the links if needed.
Jul 17, 2019 at 21:03 comment added SheppLogan Ok thanks. In fact i think using the trig circle can help me too. (And the matrix vector interpretation of the DFT (1D dft) each component of the vector Wx (given W is dft matrix, x is signal), would be a complex number z = rexp(iphi) and so r is magnitude (abs(z)) and phi is angle(z) so considering the phase, which i m interested in, phi would then be (here for just 1 component) the amount of phase shift from.the pure real cosine of the given frequency k for that z component ... if you see what i mean?Correct ?
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Jul 17, 2019 at 20:33 comment added Cedron Dawg @Machupicchu You're welcome. The last blurb should help you out. I'm leaving for a while. This might help too: dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/59305/…
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Jul 17, 2019 at 20:25 comment added SheppLogan Thanks for your effort. However, there is still something that bothers me. I m not sure i m able to formulate it in a meaningful way but roughly: ok i understand with your formula that a phase shift in cos of freq f is related to a weighted sum of sine and cos. But how does that explain that we need/use the phase part in Fourier transform? The imaginary part which is not the same.as the phase which is actually arctan(im/re)..?
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Jul 17, 2019 at 19:33 comment added SheppLogan Thanks for the answer. However, I am looking for a more intuitive understanding of what the phase angle really means , e.g., what does it "represent as a shift" , e.g. the values in angle(x), represent a shift w.r.t ...what?
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