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Restore real signal from its complex representation if sampled under Nyquist frequency
Assume we have:
real signal: $s(t)$
its analytic representation: $s^+(t) = s(t) + j*H(t)$,
where $H(t)$ - Hilbert transform of $s(t)$
Spectrum of $s^+(t)$ has only positive part, so may be sampled ...
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What is the between spatial frequency of an image and pixel size of the sensor?
In my lecture notes about the sampling of an image I've written that:
Since pixels have a finite dimension the spatial frequency response is attenuated before the "ideal" Nyquist frequency
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What should be IQ sample rate at least?
As i read, IQ sample doesn't need nyquist criteria. What is the mathematical representation of this result? Why IQ sample doesn't need nyquist frequency? I know that can be set to nyquist frequency ...
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Aliasing below $f_s/2$
phi = exp(linspace(0, log(511), 1024)) - 1
x = cos(2 * pi * phi)
Above will alias, despite peak instantaneous frequency evaluating to ...
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Interpreting Nyquist Plot for Phase and Gain Margins
I have an open-loop system transfer function given by $G(s) = \frac{K(ABs^2+As+1)(Cs+1)}{s^2A(s(C+D)+1)}$ so I'd expect two poles at the origin and one at $s=\frac{-1}{C+D}$. After using Matlab to ...
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A basic question regarding frequency analysis of an EEG signal
Assume that an EEG signal is sampled at $f_s = 300$ Hz then a 10000-point segment of it is selected, called $x[n]$. The corresponding 10000-point DFT is then computed and called $X[k]$.
Assume further ...
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Sampling pure tone sine waves [closed]
What would happen if I am using the maximum frequency as the sample rate for sampling a pure tone sine wave?
For example, a $10\ \rm kHz$ sampling frequency for a $10\ \rm kHz$ monotone sine wave. ...
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Confused on Pulse Filter Bandwidth and Symbol Rate Relation
***Still need help in 2021 - not fully clear still on Jan 20th ***
I am confused about the relation between Sinc and Rectangle transform pair and how that relates the Bandwidth of Pulses, Bandwidth of ...
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Amplitude modulation vs sampling rate? [closed]
As a sampled tone's frequency nears $f_s / 2$, amplitude modulation grows apparent:
("Actual" curve in grey; blue is what we get if taking samples (dots) "at face value"). This is ...
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Sampling Dirac function and a DC signal
Can we sample the Dirac function?
$$ x(t) = \delta(t) $$
Can we sample a DC signal?
$$ x(t) = 1$$
I think that we can't sample $x(t) = 1$ because the Fourier Transform of $x(t) = 1$ is $2\pi \delta(...
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Use of the harris-Moerder Nyquist Pulse Shaping Filter
I became aware today through fred harris' excellent presentation at the DSP Online Conference (https://www.dsponlineconference.com/) of the harris-Moerder pulse shaping filter which was published 15 ...
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Generating digitized white noise: uniform vs normal sampling
Consider the following two ways of generating noise in the time domain for audio applications:
Generate samples from a uniform distribution [-amplitude, +amplitude]...
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Can I sample at Nyquist rate if I know that my samples are taken only at the signal's maxima or minima?
I know that in general the sampling rate, $f_s$, must be greater than twice the highest frequency of the signal, $f$.
If I sample at the Nyquist rate, it can lead to the following:
However, if the ...
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SDR Dongle, 2MHz Bandwidth related to Fs but bandwidth range 50-2000 MHz
Having a conceptional issue.
If a SDR dongle has a 2MHz signal bandwidth, but that can be anywhere within the range of 50-2000 MHz, why is the bandwidth only 2 MHz.
The clock must be double the ...
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Determine stability of feedback system from open loop transfer function and Nyquist stability criterion gives different results
I'm confused due to the fact that the Nyquist stability criterion and looking at the transfer function doesn't give the same results whether a feedback system is stable or not. When I have the system ...
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I need help in understanding “Nyquist Criterion” definition
I am researching the split-step parabolic equation and its split step solution as in:
Ozgun, Ozlem & Apaydin, Gokhan & Kuzuoglu, Mustafa & Sevgi, Levent. (2011). PETOOL: MATLAB-based one-...
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Why the Nyquist frequency is 0.5 of Fs, why not 0.55 or 0.65?, brief explanation [duplicate]
This my elaboration of the aliasing issue:
a continuous signal can be represented by factors of :
$e^{(i2{\pi}ft)}$ if we sample this signal then I will get:
$e^{(i2{\pi}fk/N)}$ where $k=0,1,2.., N-1$
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aliasing in image processing
I know that aliasing occurs when a signal is subsampled. If the sampling rate is lower than twice the max frequency in a signal, aliasing occurs.
How is it in pictures? as far as I know, a sinc-filter ...
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Sample rates, Samples per Symbol, and Digital Pulse Shaping
Having some confusion about digital pulse shaping for complex baseband (passband) signals. The complex baseband linear modulation equation is
$$s(t)=\sum_{m=-\infty}^{\infty}\text{Re}\{a_m\}h(t-mT)+j\...
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When do we divide by $2\pi$ while solving Nyquist problems?
I slightly lost the tempo in the course for a couple of days, so I apologies for the noob question if seemed so.
Why do we divide by $2\pi$ in Nyquist problems sometimes and sometimes not? I saw there ...
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Positive and negative frequencies in DFT due to frequency folding, or due to negatively indexed frequencies?
When I look for the cause of the mirroring of frequencies in DFT output, I get two types of explanations:
The first one which says the frequencies are mirrored because of the complex exponential ...
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What is an example of using aliasing to your advantage when recovering an input signal?
Suppose you have an arbitrary analog input signal $x_a(t)$ guaranteed to have frequencies within a bandwidth $[f_1,f_2]$ Hz.
Suppose your sampling frequency $F_s$Hz, and sample $x_a(t)$ to produce $...
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Multichannel sampling with aliasing
if i have 2 sensors, sensor1 and sensor2, that sample a signal on complementary points so that sensor2 samples always between sensor1s sampling points. can I achieve the doubled sampling rate with the ...
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Cross Domain Equivalent to Nyquist Sampling Theorem?
In attempting to answer this question by @Oliver here: What characterizies 'causality' for a finite FFT? I have considered the minimum requirement to avoid time domain aliasing in the Discrete ...
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Nyquist Rate of cosine modulated function
Here's my understanding:
$$y(t) = x(t)~ \cos(\Omega_0 t)$$
I take the Fourier transform of y(t) and I get this result:
$$Y(\Omega) = \frac{1}{2}X(\Omega - \Omega_0) + \frac{1}{2}X(\Omega + \...
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Sampling and Reconstruction of digital signal in Matlab
I'm trying to write a program in Matlab that samples (using Nyquist theorem) and recovers signal. However, I cannot write sampling part for sum of 2 signal.
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Whats the difference between spatial and temporal resolution?
Iam trying to understand how super-resolution works. But i think i have not understood correctly the difference between the optical resolution (spatial resolution?) and the resolution i know from a ...
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creating this famous basic nyquist theory photo
Hello i ha built this code
which create a only one replica of the data,
how can i create the whole photo shown bellow of many cycles as shown bellow?
i read in the internet that zero padding could ...
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Upsampling with time offsets
Suppose I have done 4x oversampling for a continuous time signal, but the successive sampling times have a linearly increasing offset. Specifically, the samples with indices {4k; k=0, 1, 2,...} are ...
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Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem: implications on matching data records?
I have two data records $R_1$ and $R_2$ with sampling periods $T_1$ and $T_2$, where $T_1$ < $T_2$. These records arise from sampling and filtering two signals to remove any noise (including ...
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does aliasing occur always if i sample a vibration in real world applications?
I was reading about the aliasing effect and nyquist. I understand that aliasing effect occurs if the sampling rate is lower than twice the maximum frequency in the signal I want to sample.
So I was ...
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Nyquist theorem vs sampling theorem vs shannon sampling theorem?
Is there any difference between these three?or these are just three names of same theorem?
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How to estimate the frequency of a feature in an image?
I have a background in the 1-D signal analysis but I am totally new to image analysis. I would appreciate any help.
Given the following original image and the downsampled image, as you could see, ...
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Reconstructing/interpolating small regions of a bandlimited signal by taking the fewest possible samples
I have a signal which is bandlimited and can be sampled at arbitrary continuous positions. The value at any position is given by an expensive computation. I need to do some further computation on ...
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A question about sampling rate of cosine signal
Given $$c(t) = \cos(2\pi\cdot 30 \cdot t) $$
If we sample this signal at the Nyquist rate 60 Hz and at a higher rate of 80 Hz, we get the following:
There is no aliasing as $f$ = 30 Hz is less than ...
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anti-alias filter of square pulses
I'm trying to determine whether or not an anti-alias filter is needed for sampling square waves. The goal is to sample square wave pulses from a video detector with an ADC, do some time-domain digital ...
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Bandwidth computation for NRZ baseband transmission scheme
In Andrew Tanenbaum's book on Computer Networks, while explaining about bandwidth of a NRZ (Non Return to Zero) baseband transmission scheme, he says the following:
With NRZ, the signal may cycle ...
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How do I apply the Nyquist criterion on the following spectrum to see if it satisfies the criterion or not?
I am trying to find out if the pulse in the figure satisfies the Nyquist criterion for a modulation interval T. I'm used to the Nyqusit frequency, but I cannot grasp what the Nyquist criterion is ...
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What is the right way to downsample using Fourier method?
I want to know what is the right way to downsample a sampled signal using Fourier transform as the implementation in scipy.signal.resample confuses me.
Reading ...
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How to determine sampling frequency for an x(t) signal avoiding aliasing?
The antitransform of the function is given:
$ \hat{x}(f) = \frac{123 + i246\pi f}{246 - 24600 \pi^2 f^2 + i4920\pi f} $
I'm asked to determine which frequency can I sample using the function x(t) ...
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Do you really have to always satisfy Nyquist with all signals if your purpose is to reconstruct a signal?
If not, when can you not comply with it?
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Nyquist sampling theorem / Nyquist - Shannon theorem evaluation over M-PSK
I am trying to simulate an M-PSK Tx-Rx System on Simulink and analyse what the effect of sampling rate reduction would have on it. More, particular I am trying to prove what Nyquist sampling theorem ...
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Spherical equivalent of Nyquist frequency
Let $\phi$ be a scalar function defined on the surface of a sphere. I have samples of $\phi$ at various locations on the sphere. I want to apply a spherical harmonic transform. I know that $\phi$ is '...
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Nyquist zero ISI criterion for rectanguar pulses in the frequency domain
Nyquist criterion for zero ISI states that in the frequency domain, the replicas of the frequency characteristic of combined:
TX pulse shaping filter - channel - RX pulse shaping filter
must add ...
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Sampling a signal with varying frequency
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I'm trying to figure out the sampling rate for my ADC to sample essentially signal essentially of the form:
$$y(t) = \sin(\max(t, \omega_{max})\times t) + n$$
where $n$ is noise.
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This ...
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Perform frequency analysis on grouped pulses
I have a system which consists of individual pulses grouped in trains.
The trains have a frequency of 10 Hz, with a timing precision of sub ns.
The pulses have a frequency of 2.2 MHz with a timing ...
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Passing a sampled signal through a filter
I was wondering why is it wrong to use a band-pass filter on a sampled signal?
If the signal we want to sample has frequencies up to fmax, we sample it with frequency fs = 2fmax (so that Nyquist ...
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Derivation of Nyquist Frequency and Sampling Theorem [closed]
I have been looking through different sites and questions over the internet about Sampling theory, but couldn’t find the clear definition of how nyquist frequency condition is derived? It would be ...
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Nyquist noiseless channel capacity; how can bit-rate be two times the bandwidth?
I'm confused by the Nyquist channel capacity formula. How can channel maximum capacity approach double the bandwidth.
$C = 2\times BW \times log_{2}(L)$ bits/sec
The way it was explained to me ...
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Conclusions of sampling around Nyquist Rate
I'm trying to understand some results of playing around with sampling around a signal's Nyquist sampling rate. For my example, I'm sampling a $B=5\mathrm{Hz}$ wave over a 1 second period.
In the ...
