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Re: Extracting coefficients for sinusoidals

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  • Subject: [mg60497] Re: [mg60477] Extracting coefficients for sinusoidals
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:15:52 -0400 (EDT)
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signal=Sin[p];

f[x_]:=a1*x+a1*x^2+a1*x^3+a4*x^4+a5*x^5;

CoefficientList[(signal//f//TrigReduce)/.
    {Sin[n_.*p]:>s^n,Cos[n_.*p]:>c^n},{s,c}]

{{a1/2 + (3*a4)/8, 0, -(a1/2) - a4/2, 0, a4/8}, 
  {(7*a1)/4 + (5*a5)/8, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 
  {-(a1/4) - (5*a5)/16, 0, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, 
  {a5/16, 0, 0, 0, 0}}


Bob Hanlon

> 
> From: Helge Stenstrom <helge.stenstrom at ericsson.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg60497] [mg60477]  Extracting coefficients for sinusoidals
> 
> Suppose I have a signal 
>  signal = Sin[p]
> 
> and a non-linear function
>  f[x_] := x - x^3/3
> 
> then
>   f[signal] = Sin[p] - Sin[p]^3/3
> 
> but I don't want this form (with powers of the Sin function), but
> rather the form with multiples of p. TrigReduce can solve that:
> 
>   signal // f // TrigReduce
> 
>   (9*Sin[p] + Sin[3*p])/12
> 
> It's easy to extract the coefficients by visual inspection, 
> 
>   9/12, 1/12
> 
> but how can it be done programmaticaly? With a more complex non-linear
> function, for example 
> 
>   a1*x + a1*x^2 + a1*x^3 + a4*x^4 + a5*x^5
> using 
>   signal // f // TrigReduce // InputForm
> resulting in 
>   (8*a1 + 6*a4 - 8*a1*Cos[2*p] - 8*a4*Cos[2*p] + 2*a4*Cos[4*p] + 
28*a1*Sin[p] + 
>   10*a5*Sin[p] - 4*a1*Sin[3*p] - 5*a5*Sin[3*p] + a5*Sin[5*p])/16
> 
> visual ispection is no longer simple enough. So how can I get the
> coefficients, individually or as a list?
> 
> I'm not sure how I want the Cos and Sin terms to be treated; probably
> a*Cos[x] should correspond to a*I*Sin[x] when the coefficients are
> collected. 
> 
> -- 
> Helge Stenström
> 
> 


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