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Nyquist Plot for transfer functions with poles at the origin
I'm learning Nyquist plots and something has been seriously bugging me when treating poles or zeros in the origin. Nyquist plots obtains information based on the argument principle which states
"If f(...
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Nyquist plot interpretation when curve hits the origin
I'm a bit confused about the interpretation of the Nyquist plot when the origin is part of the plot. In this case I'm not even considering closed loops, I'm just looking at the Nyquist Plot of a given ...
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relation between Nyquist sampling theory and regression
Regression is mainly about estimating a function when only a finite number of samples of the function are available. Theories usually care about asymptotic performance as the number of samples tends ...
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What exactly is captured in a Sample of the Nyquist-Theorem variety?
I'm new to DSP and was thinking of sampling in the traditional music creation way, in that you capture a sound and play it back, warp it, etc., but when I thought about the Nyquist theorem, I realized ...
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How to select the sampling frequency when the input signal frequency is not known
I am trying to observe the noise produced by UPS present in our lab, under no load (a normal running condition when its power is on). As I don't know its frequency range, I have randomly chosen 4 ...
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Why doesn't the sampling theorem work in this case?
In this example, under "Discussion", we can see that the Nyquist sample rate will result in samples with the value zero only. But why is this? I thought the sampling theorem said that if you sample ...
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Amplitude Response at greater than half the sampling frequency
I am hoping to clear up some confusion I have. In a lab I am taking, we analyzed the amplitude response of a simple system. We found that as we increased the input signal frequency to greater than ...
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Minimum sample frequency that allows reconstruction of information signal but VIOLATES Nyquist?
Say in the frequency spectrum, you have an information signal between (-100, 100) Hz, and a noise signal between (-700, -500) and between (500, 700) Hz. What is the minimum possible sample frequency ...
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Nyquist frequency , sampling distance
I have few questions I tried to solve regarding nyquist theorem, and I would like to see your opinion if I'm doing it correctly?(one I know the answer second one not sure).
1.Let $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ be ...
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Do Nyquist samples have the same sum as the integral of the signal?
Assume I sample a signal according to the Nyquist criterion. Then I perform a simple summation / integral over a linearly interpolated signal. Is this equivalent to the integral over the continuous ...
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Nyquist sampling
I know that if $f_\mathrm{m}$ is the "Nyquist frequency" (max frequency) and $f_\mathrm{s}$ sampling rate then $f_\mathrm{s}>2f_\mathrm{m}$.
Am I correct so far?
I have a signal $x(t)$ with max ...
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Nyquist frequency and DC
Im studying the DSP book by Steven W. Smith. On page 41 he covers the Nyquist frequency. He makes up an example by writing the following.
... consider an analog signal composed of frequencies ...
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Why are patterns repeated in the frequency-power graph of a periodic signal?
The original question was posted here.
I have a signal, which I'd like to treat as a non-continuous function now, let it be $signal(t)$. It looks like this:
Zoomed in a bit:
I create a Lomb-Scargle ...
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What does the frequency band mean when it comes to finding aliases?
The time signal which i'm trying to find the aliases for is:
$$x:{\mathbb R}\rightarrow {\mathbb R}\\\ x(t)=\cos(50t) +2\cos(70t).$$
If the sample period is $T_s = \frac{\pi}{60}$ then according ...
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Nyquist Rate (Sampling Frequency) for $ {f}^{2} \left( x, y \right) $
We are given that $f(x,y)$ is highest frequency is $\omega$ what will be the frequency sample rate if we want to restore the function of the form $g(x,y)=f^2(x,y)$
Would it be correct to say that ...
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Why does a higher sampling frequency mess up my bandpass filter?
I was designing a bandpass filter in python using some of the scipy.signal modules.
I am plotting the frequency response of my filter to verify that my desired frequency is in the passband. However, ...
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Calculate bandwidth of a signal for Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
I have to calculate the minimum sampling frequency for the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem which is Fc > 2*B, where B is the signal bandwidth.
I have this signals: $\text{sinc}^5(t/2 - 4)$ and $\...
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Proving Nyquist Sampling theorem for strictly bandlimited signals
I understand that the Nyquist sampling theorem dictates that the minimum sampling frequency, $f_s$, be s.t. $f_s > 2B$, where $ B $, is the bandwidth of the signal. I have read the explanation for ...
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Effective Nyquist frequency / signal resolution for overlapping time averaged signal samples
Say that I have a continuous signal. If I sample the signal at sampling rate f_sample, then the highest signal frequency that I can resolve without worrying about ...
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Sub nyquist sampling, required number of samples for time sparse grouped signals
Question: Does it make sense to perform compressed sampling if the non zero samples are grouped in time? If so, what is the minimal length of the vector x that should be acquired to allow full signal ...
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Number of discrete samples required for the longest wavelength
I am trying to understand the effect of the critical Nyquist frequency when applying the Goertzel algorithm for estimating the power spectrum of a discrete signal. (Goertzel doesn't really matter, ...
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Frequency spectra of a sampled process
I have a process $X$ with frequency spectra
I sample this process with sampling frequency $f_s = 2$.
What will the frequency spectra $R_z(f)$ of the sampled process $Z$ look like? I realize that ...
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Higher order harmonics during sampling
I am studying about the sampling theorem in conjunction for ADC. I got little confused while reading about aliased frequencies. I see that as per the Nyquist theorem, the sampling frequency (fs) ...
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Is it possible to lose half the samples, and yet see the full spectrogram as the original signal?
Consider an speech audio signal sampled at 16,000 samples per second. Plot its spctrogram.
If we delete every other sample from input signal, we get y[n] = x[2n] for all n.
It seems that if we plot ...
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Stability of open-loop transfer function from its Nyquist plot
I am facing a confusion on understanding system open-loop transfer function stability from its Nyquist plot.
According to the formula, for open loop transfer function stability: $$Z=N+P=0$$
where $N$ ...
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Nyquist Theorem adding two same frequency near to Nyquist Frequency with phase shift
This is my first question on this platform. Sorry if I made mistakes.
What happens if we add two or more same frequency signals near to Nyquist Frequency with phase shift and sample them?
For ...
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Follow up question regarding: “Complex sampling can break Nyquist?”
I'm having some trouble understanding the sample rate limitations when considering a complex baseband signal.
I understand (based on the linked SE questions below), the either (1) physically ...
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Minimum Channel Bandwidth for PCM
Please check if my answer to GATE IN 2010 question 11.20 is correct/can be improved upon.
So, every $\frac{1}{f_s}$ sec, a sample is taken. The signal amplitude is quantized into $2^n$ levels such ...
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Passband vs Baseband Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in
a continuous band of frequencies. A key characteristic of bandwidth is
that any band of a given width can carry the same ...
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Nyquist Stability Test
Currently I'm learning about Nyquist Stability Test and I'm few days stuck on one thing and I don't understand that so I wanted look here for help.
Given is transfer function $K\frac{2s-11}{s(s^2+s+...
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Discrepancy in stability conditions when calculating via RH criterion and Nyquist criteria
I have the following open loop transfer function for a unity feedback system.
$$G(s)=\frac{K(s+20)^2}{s^3}$$
1.When using RH criterion it can be easily proved that the closed loop transfer function ...
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Nyquist Theorem - Why unique frequencies upto Fs/2 and not Fs? f+Fs is start of Aliasing
If any frequency, f, displays an alias at f + Fs, This shows that unique frequencies have a range of Fs. Why does Nyquist theorem say that actually there is only half of this with unique frequencies ...
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Digital Filter Design using difference equations
I am reading a chapter on digital filter design from analog filter design using difference equations. What they do first of all is that they map $s$ (Laplace variable) to $z$ ($z$-transform) by the ...
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Bandwidth with complex sampling
On the transmit side, I have a 20 MHz carrier frequency carrying a signal with bandwidth of 40 MHz (so 0 Hz to 40 MHz, center at 20 MHz).
On the receive side, I have a dual channel ADC with each ...
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What is Faster Than Nyquist signaling?
Faster than Nyquist signaling is used to improve the spectral efficiency by reducing the time spacing (relaxing the orthogonality constraint) to pack more data in the same channel while tolerating a ...
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Applying Nyquist's sampling theorem to a real signal
I'm struggling to fully understand the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.
For some message input signal $m(t)$ that is infinite in time (i.e. is not identically $0$ for any interval $t_1<t<\...
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Is it possible to discretely sample the function
I had a few questions on sampling(I'm quite new witht his), I tried to answer them, I think that I did the first one correct , but not sure about the 2 other:
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given the next functions,Is it possible ...
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Invertibility of Room Impulse Response: Reproducing Research Paper
I have been trying to reproduce this paper¹. Few things which are unclear to me. The paper talks about finding whether a given Room Impulse Response(RIR) is invertible or not based on Nyquist plot.
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Fractional Delay Filters and Cutoff Frequences
I am trying to implement an interpolator for arbitrary sampling rate conversion of a one-dimensional signal (a fractional delay filter). I am aware of the fact that interpolation is in general a ...
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Confusion regarding Nyquist Sampling Theorem
The first time Nyquist Theorem was mentioned in class. It stated that we should sample at twice the highest frequency content of the signal. Example: If we wanted to sample $\cos(2 \pi f_0 t)$, the ...
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A voice signal is band-limited to 3.3 kHz. What is the Nyquist frequency?
I'm having a some trouble with an assignment I have to do. I don't come from electrical engineering background and would appreciate any help I can get.
"A voice signal is band-limited to 3.3 kHz. ...
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If humans can only hear up to 20 kHz frequency sound, why is music audio sampled at 44.1 kHz?
I read in some places that music is mostly sampled at 44.1 kHz whereas we can only hear up to 20 kHz. Why is it?
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How do ADC/DACs deal with out of sync signals near Nyquist frequency?
Let's say a converter is sampling continuously at 48 kHz and the incoming waveform is a sine wave at 24 kHz... How does it faithfully recreate the waveform if the samples are taken at points that are ...
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Root raised cosine pulse shaping filter
What are disadvantages of root raised cosine pulse shaping filter in digital communications and why does it need to be improved?
Links:
Square Root Raised Cosine Fractionally Delaying Nyquist ...
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Understanding the conditions for recovering a discrete time signal through sampling
So, we had a very brief introduction to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem (the discrete time version).
While discussing this, we have seen that multiplying a discrete time signal $x[n]$ by an ...
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Distortion of a signal consisting of two periodic components
We have a signal
$$x(t)=U_1\cos\omega_1t+U_2\cos\omega_2t$$
whose frequencies are $f_1=100\,\text{Hz}$ and $f_2=600\,\text{Hz}$. This signal is being discretisated in time using unipolar ...
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compensation for irregular timestep for FFT
I want to run a clustering algorithm (svm, knn) on the ferquency spectrum data of a temperature sensor that published at irregular times.
Here is the temperature data to take the FFT:
I got the ...
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Nyquist criterion for zero isi
I am working with the Nyquist criterion for zero ISI when I find something that makes me think that I misunderstood this criterion.
What Nyquist says is that to avoid ISI in the sampling we must ...
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How to classify filters?
In class, we have defined four types of filters: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and band-stop. I have understood that in order to classify a filter into one of the fourth, one can use the signals:
DC:...
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Conditions for representing (perfectly) an analog signal as a digital signal
Consider the following cases:
Sampling with a frequency of the "signal's central frequency"
Sampling a BP signal with twice the frequency of the signal BW.
Sampling an LP signal with the highest ...
