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Zero Padding in FFT

whats is the effect of pading zeroes to a sequence in FFT? for eg: x[n]=[2 3 4 5] corresponds to X[K]=[14 -2+2i -2 -2-2i] while x[n]=[2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0] corresponds to X[K]=[14 0.58-9.65i -2+2i -3.414+...
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FFT of size not a power of 2

My question is regarding the input size of a signal which is not a power of 2 and we have to take the fft of it. Some solutions say that suppose if we want to take the fft of 1800 we should zero pad ...
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Why images need to be padded before filtering in frequency domain

In image processing books , we are told that Images need to be padded while doing filtering in the frequency domain. Why we need that zero padding ?
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How to choose a windowing function when performing a Chirp $\mathcal Z$-transform?

I've got some data sampled at 32 Hz. The only interesting stuff is happening between about 0-8 Hz and I've got to do real time batch processing and detect events with a delay of no more than a second. ...