Re: fourier transform
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- Subject: [mg61238] Re: [mg61203] fourier transform
- From: Pratik Desai <pdesai1 at umbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:39:46 -0400 (EDT)
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Pratik Desai wrote:
> Masrur Hossain wrote:
>
>> Hi folks
>> I have a list of pairs of numbers like
>>
>> {{1.2, 3.4}, {2.2, 3.6}............}
>> The first part is time and second part is amplitude.
>>
>> when I do the fourier transform by using
>> Fourier[list]
>>
>> it gives me list of complex numbers but I expect real numbers
>> (i.e . amplitude versus frequency)
>>
>>
> It should give you complex numbers, that is the whole idea of Fourier
> Transform ( I think :-\ )
> You can find the amplitude(frequency domain Frequency Response
> Function) simply by taking the absolute value and plotting it with
> respect to the number of points, and obviously the phase is given by
> taking Arg. I may be wrong about this but I don't think the way you
> have constructed your input list will work, the best way is to do is
> to construct your list with only amplitudes with a suitable time step.
> To gurantee good results the number of points should be something
> like 2^n ;-) .....256, 512, 1024 etc.
>
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
> Hope this helps
>
>
> Pratik .
>
You can find more information on this in the Mathematica Book 3.8.4
Just type 3.8.4 in help browser in Mathematica
--
Pratik Desai
Graduate Student
UMBC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 410 455 8134
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- From: Masrur Hossain <Lessjunk@yahoo.com>
- fourier transform