I have been studying signals and systems lately and I have came across the following claim:
The uniform sampling of a periodic continuous-time signal may not be periodic!
Can someone please explain why this statement is true?
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Sign up to join this communityIf the ratio between your sampling frequency and the frequency of your signal is irrational, you will not have a periodic discrete signal.
Assuming you have a 1-kHz sine wave and you sample at 3000*sqrt(2) Hz. You will have approximately 4.2 samples per period. However you will not be able to sample the sine wave exactly at the same place. Hence your digital signal will not be periodic.
However, if you sampled the same 1-kHz signal at 4 kHz, you would get a periodic discrete signal. The period would be 4 samples.
1kHz
and you sample with 3.5kHz
, you get a periodic signal with a period time of 2ms
. To get a periodic signal, f_s
does not need to be n*f_in
but can be n*f_in/m
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May 22, 2019 at 10:44