Questions tagged [fourier-series]
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Fourier Transform: interpretation of continuous spectrum at specific frequencies
B. P. Lathi in his book "Principles of Linear Systems and Signals" mentions in the Fourier Transform:
When $x(t)$ is periodic, the spectrum is discrete, and $x(t)$ can be expressed as a sum of ...
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Aliasing when interpolating with DFT?
I'm coming from an understanding of the continuous-time Fourier Transform, and the effects of doing a DFT and the inverse DFT are mysterious to me.
I have created a noiseless signal as:
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Is Fourier series a sampled version of Fourier transform?
I recently learned about dtft and how dft/dfs is the sampled version of dtft. I was wondering if Fourier series is also obtainable by sampling Fourier transform? I am a noob in the subject so sorry if ...
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Proof of First Difference Property for Fourier Series
I am having trouble with deriving a proof for the first difference property for the Fourier Series.
Here is my attempt at the derivation:
$$
y[n] = x[n] - x[n-1]
$$
Fourier Series Representation:
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How to find fundamental frequency of two signals?
I am facing difficulty with finding fundamental frequency of signals
I mean by fundamental frequency=(1/Time period)
Correct me if I am wrong
consider two continuous time signals with
Time period ...
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How do I obtain the fourier series coefficients for a signal obtained by multiplication of two signals of different frequency?
What i assume here is that LCM of time periods of the two taken signals exist that is signals periods are not like pi/2 and 1 but are rather like 1 and 2 (just an example)
I am given fourier series ...
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How to get Fourier coefficients to draw any shape using DFT?
I'm teaching myself about Fourier Series and the DFT and trying to draw a stylised $\pi$ symbol by fourier epicycles as detailed by Mathologer on youtube (from 18:39 onwards), and the excellent ...
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integration property of fourier series
Please help me sort this issue out.
The integration property in Fourier series is as follows:
So, for proving the above property, i took this approach:
This is where my doubt is. Some books and ...
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Phase diagram of a rectangular pulse with Fourier Series - help understanding
I understand perfectly fine how to plot the magnitude of a Fourier series, but I'm having serious trouble understanding how to plot the phase spectrum. Below is a picture of a rectangular pulse. The ...
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fftshift in MATLAB with even number of data points in double sided spectrum
I have a question with reference to this Table.
With even N, the frequency axis extremes should be $\pm$Fs/2, where Fs is the sampling frequency. However in the array we have only one value ...
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Is there a generalized method to get the input with the given output and the impulse response?
$y(t)=y(t+12), y(t) = x(t) \ast h(t)$
The continuous time signal output $y(t)$ is a periodic square wave, 50% duty cycle pulse.
The impulse response is a box function.($A = 1, T = 2$)
By using ...
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2D Fourier Synthesis (IDFT) not yielding expected result
I am trying to recover a 2D signal using inverse DFT, to my understanding the IDFT outputs the coefficients of the fourier series of the original function up to the Nyquist frequency.
So for example ...
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inner product zero?
I am studying about Fourier series from book"Signals and
Systems Laboratory with MATLAB"
I came across topic "Orthogonality of Complex Exponential Signals"
I am confused in case when m=k, will the ...
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Is there an analogy of the Fourier-decomposition in the Laplace space to decompose a signal to a few components?
I have a signal from which I know, that it is the sum of a few, exponentially decaying components. I want to find these components.
If it would be a sum of some sinusiod waves, it would be easy to ...
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Fourier Transforms, symmetry, real/imaginary
I was hoping to clarify if the following was correct:
-a real function (neither even nor odd) in time exhibits conjugate symmetry in frequency, so the real part of the frequency response is even, and ...
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The Fourier Transform of a periodic function and it's series
Let $X(f)$ be the Fourier transform of $x(t)$:
$$ X(f) \triangleq \mathscr{F}\Big\{ x(t) \Big\} = \int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} x(t)\,e^{-j 2 \pi f t} \ \mathrm{d}t $$
$$ x(t) \triangleq \mathscr{F}...
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How to find Fourier series coeffecients of convolution of two periodic continuous functions with different time periods?
Above given is my solution Plz check if it is correct and I got struck at last step .Plz help
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Why do waveforms that are symmetrical above and below their horizontal centerlines contain no even-numbered harmonics?
All About Circuits site states that waveforms that are symmetrical above and below their horizontal centerlines contain no even-numbered harmonics. Can somebody explain this mathematically, or point ...
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Sampling Frequency and Spectral Regrowth
Sampling a cosine wave of 10 Hz at Fs = 64 and number of samples Ns = 256
I setup my time vector for the cosine wave as n=(0:Ns-1)*(1/Fs)
If I change the sampling frequency from 64 to 64.0005 I get ...
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How can I improve my fit of cosines to periodic data using Python?
I have a space-separated csv file containing a measurement. First column is the time of measurement, second column is the corresponding measured value, third column ...
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A question on Fourier Series and the frequency of the sinusoids
On studying about Fourier series, I encountered 2 doubts:
How is it that a non-periodic function has a Fourier series?
When expressing a periodic function as summation of sinusoids, why is the ...
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What is the basic idea behind Fourier transform? [closed]
What is the basic idea behind (discrete and continuous) Fourier transform (FT)? In short, what is the difference between discrete and continuous FT?
I have read multiple answers on the web related to ...
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Intuition behind FT of Dirac Comb [duplicate]
What is the intuitive explanation behind a dirac comb having a dirac comb as Fourier transform? How to calculate this is clear, but I cannot picture why this intuitively makes sense.
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Correct form of discrete-time Fourier series representation
As I see in this slides, Fourier series representation for discrete-time signal $s[n]$ with period $N$ is $\sum_{k = 0}^{N-1} c_k e^{j2\pi k n / N}$
According to Wiki, Fourier series representation ...
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How to find period of signal, when spectrum is known?
Here is signal in frequency domain .Division of frequencies does not give an integer number or real number. May it can be here another method of finding period for ths signal.
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What to do after this last step?
I am solving a question from book in which I have to use summation. It is as follows:
$$ \frac{1}{10}\sum_{n=0}^{9} e^{-jk\omega_0n} $$
The value of $\omega_0$ is $\frac{2\pi}{10}$.
What I ...
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How to do convolution in Fourier Series?
Two signals are given to me :
$$x(t)=\cos(4\pi t)$$
$$y(t)=\sin(4\pi t)$$
I have founded their coefficients as follows:
$$a_k = a_1=a_{-1}=\frac{1}{2} $$
$$b_k = b_1=b^*_{-1}=\frac{1}{2j}...
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Does the Fourier series coefficient of AC components remains same if DC component is subtracted form the given signal?
Suppose a signal is defined by
$
x(t)= \begin{cases}
t & 0\leq t \leq 1 \\
2-t & 1\leq t\leq 2 \\
\end{cases}
$
Since $x(t)$ has even symmetry, I can calculate fourier coefficient as
$$
a_n = ...
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Spectrum of Cosine in Complex Form
The complex exponential form of cosine
$$\cos(k \omega t) = \tfrac{1}{2} e^{i k \omega t} + \tfrac{1}{2} e^{-i k \omega t}$$
The trigonometric spectrum of $\cos(k \omega t)$ is single amplitude of ...
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How was this result on discrete Fourier series achieved?
I was trying to do the question 10, part b of the following document (https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-007-signals-and-systems-spring-2011/assignments/MITRES_6_007S11_hw10.pdf)
I was going through ...
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Find Fourier series $f(t) = e^{jx t}$ , $−\pi < t < \pi$ [closed]
I need to find the Fourier series of the $f(t) = e^{jxt}$ , $− \pi < t < \pi$
What will be the first step to solve it?
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Why do frequencies of analog signals range from $-\infty$ to $\infty$ while frequencies of digital signals are restricted to $[0,2\pi]$?
In Fourier analysis while dealing with discrete-time signals, frequencies range from $0$ to $2\pi$ why? Intuitively how can i understand it?
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Scaling property of Fourier Transform
Problem 4.6(b) from Oppenheim, Wilsky & Nawab (2nd ed) reads:
Given that $x(t)$ has the Fourier transform $X(j\omega)$, express the Fourier transform of $x(3t - 6)$ in terms of $X(j\omega)$.
The ...
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Fourier series of $cos(\omega_0 t)$ in continuous time
Can any one please help me with understanding how we can calculate the Fourier series of Cos(w0t) using the formula:
I saw that they did the following calculus, but I Don't really understand how we ...
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From Fourier (k space) to wavelet domain in MRI sensing
In compressed sensing MRI (cSENSE MRI) technology the idea seems to entail sampling from the Fourier domain (k space) in a way that, when transformed to the wavelet domain ("sparsification"), the ...
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Fourier coefficients of sum of two functions with different fundamental periods?
If we assume $\quad x(t)\leftrightarrow a_k\:$ and it is periodic with fundamental period T.
How can we determine the fourier coefficients of the sum
$x(t-7)+x(-2t+3)$
I know that $x(t-7)\...
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Is there any special when all Fourier components have the same angle?
When a square wave doesn't jump, its oscillators aren't aligned:
But if they are in sync, the wave will jump to its extrema:
However this is just an example of square waves. The tool Understanding ...
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What is the moment when all oscillators aligned to make a jump called?
Say we have a square wave and its Fourier series. When the wave doesn't jump, its oscillators aren't aligned:
But if they are aligned, the wave will jump:
What is this moment called? They might not ...
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How to determine which Fouriers Series terms to use to approximate a signal?
I have a signal (a time-series of air temperature values) that I can approximate quite well with a Fourier series. However, the number of terms in the series grows rapidly, to the point that 30 - 40 ...
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characterization of DC component
Consider the following two statements:
In time axis:
A signal without a DC component is a signal which doesn't have the zero frequency (the DC frequency)
A signal without a DC component is averaged ...
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Proof of the convolution property of Fourier Series in continuous time
I am facing problem in understanding the proof of Convolution property of Fourier Series (FS) in continuous time CT;
that is: $$\mathrm{FS} \big\{x_1(t)\star x_2(t)\big\}=T\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}...
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Uniqueness of Fourier Series Representation and the Fourier Transform of Periodic Signals
If we are given a signal of the form $$x(t) = \sum_{k = -\infty}^{+\infty} a_k e^{j k \omega_0 t},$$ can we call it a Fourier Series representation of $x(t)$ right away?
Suppose we are given the ...
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Fourier Coefficients
Consider the signal
$$x(t)=\cos(2\pi t)$$
Since $x(t)$ is periodic with a fundamental period of $1$, it is also periodic with a period of $N$, where $N$ is any positive integer.
What are the ...
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What is the exact meaning of the output of the Discrete Fourier Transform
I'm fairly new to the subject, but so far my understanding that this would be a transform you could use to go from a discrete set of data, say [1, 0, 1, 2] to a continuous sinusoidal function in the ...
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Inverse Discrete-Time Fourier Transform of $X(Ω)=jΩ$
I am trying to solve it by using the properties but I can’t seem to find the same solution as on my book.
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Fourier components of $\cos(2\pi f_1t)$
I have the signal $s(t) = \cos(2\pi f_1t)$ and I am looking for its components vs the Fourier basis, over the interval $[0, T]$. The formula for computing the coefficients is
$$
s_n = \int_{t_0}^{t_1} ...
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Fourier coefficients of product of two periodic signals
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If $x(t)$ and $y(t)$ are two periodic signals(both with period T) with Fourier coefficients $c_{n}$ and $d_{n}$ respectively then, Fourier coefficient of $z(t)=x(t)\cdot y(t)$ is:
(a) $\...
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Finding the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal
Suppose we have the signal $$x(t) = e^{j\omega_1 t} + e^{j\omega_2 t} + e^{j\omega_3 t},$$ where all the frequencies are rationally related (that is, the ratio of any pair of frequencies is a rational ...
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Rationally related frequencies and the Fourier Series representation
Suppose that we have the signal $$x(t) = e^{j\omega t} + e^{j\frac{3}{2} \omega t},$$ and we want to find a Fourier Series representation for that signal. Is this possible? According to my ...
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Pulse wave question
Wikipedia, fount of all knowledge (Ha! LOL), gives a formula for a pulse wave here:
The formula is:
$$f(t)=\frac{\tau}{T}+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{2}{n\pi}\sin\left(\frac{\pi n \tau}{T}\right)\cos\...
