Re: Fourier and InverseFourier
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- Subject: [mg75421] Re: Fourier and InverseFourier
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
and you are sure that
FourierTransform[Exp[-t], t, w]
is exist ? Because
Integrate[Exp[-t]*Exp[I*w*t], {t, -Infinity, Infinity}]/Sqrt[2Pi]
gives the correct error message that the integral does not converge
and in general Fourier transforms are only defined for quadratic
integrable functions and Exp[-t] is not quadratic integrable.
Regards
Jens
rob wrote:
> I kind person on this ng (Gulliet) recently contributed a
> convolution scheme which works nicely to plot x2 below:
>
> conv[f1_, f2_] := Module[{u}, Evaluate[Integrate[f1[u] f2[#
> - u], {u, 0, #}]] &]
>
> x2[t_] := convolve[Sin[t], Exp[-t]][t]
>
> Plot[x2[t], {t, 0, 15}, PlotRange -> All]
>
> Wondering if I could achieve the same thing in the freq.
> domain, I tried what I thought should give the same result
> in x3:
>
> fs = FourierTransform[Sin[t], t, w]
> fe = FourierTransform[Exp[-t], t, w]
>
> x3[t_] := InverseFourierTransform[fs*fe, w, t]
>
> Plot[x3[t], {t, 0, 15}, PlotRange -> All]
>
> I find this does not work, getting this err message and Mathematica
> (v.5.1) didn't stop in over 30 minutes.
>
> NIntegrate::ploss: Numerical integration stopping due to
> loss of precision. Achieved neither the requested
> PrecisionGoal nor AccuracyGoal; suspect one of the
> following: highly oscillatory integrand or the true value of
> the integral is 0. If your integrand is oscillatory on a
> (semi-)infinite interval try using the option
> Method->Oscillatory in NIntegrate.
>
> Since I'm using the internal integrals of
> InverseFourierTransform I don't know how to try the
> suggestion of Method->Oscillatory as the message suggests.
>
> I changed the Sin[t] to t and the process gave no err
> messages and finished in just a few minutes. The plot had
> axes but nothing on it.
>
> Can someone give me any hints as what might work?
>