Calculation and Representation of The Fourier Series in Matlab
Calculation and Representation of The Fourier Series in Matlab
Abstract
Fourier series provides an alternate way of representing data: instead of representing the signal amplitude as a
function of time, we represent the signal by how much information is contained at different frequencies. If you ever
watched the blinking lights on a stereo equalizer then you have seen Fourier analysis at work. This document will
describe some of the basics of Fourier series and will show you how you can easily perform this analysis using
MATLAB. While MATLAB makes it easy to translate a signal from the time domain to the frequency domain, one
must understand how to interpret the data in the frequency domain....
Index TermsMatlab, fourier series, magnitude spectrum
I. INTRODUCTION
This section will not provide rigorous derivations of
Fourier series and it's properties; those topics will be
covered later in one of your math classes. This section
will show the general nature of the Fourier series and
how transform functions from the time domain to the
frequency domain.
A Fourier series takes a signal and decomposes it into a
sum of sines and cosines of different frequencies.
Assume that we have a signal that last for 1 second, 0 < t
< 1, we conjecture that can represent that signal by the
infinite series
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