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Intro to Fourier Analysis. Definition Analysis of periodic waves Analysis of aperiodic waves Digitization Time-frequency uncertainty. The Fourier series. Any continuous waveform can be partitioned into a sum of sinusoidal waves P(t) = P o + S P n cos (2 p f n t + F n )
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Intro to Fourier Analysis • Definition • Analysis of periodic waves • Analysis of aperiodic waves • Digitization • Time-frequency uncertainty
The Fourier series • Any continuous waveform can be partitioned into a sum of sinusoidal waves • P(t) = Po + SPncos (2pfnt + Fn) • Po is the ambient pressure • Pn is the pressure of the nth cosine wave • fn is the frequency of the nth cosine wave • Fn is the phase of the nth cosine wave
Sound spectrum Time domain Frequency domain Frequency spectrum
Types of periodic waveforms • Amplitude varies in a repeating manner - amplitude modulation • Frequency varies in a repeating manner - frequency modulation • The shape of the waveform varies in a repeating manner - nonsinusoidal periodic wave
Amplitude modulation (AM) Carrier frequency plus side bands
Frequency modulation (FM) Modulation determines the number of side bands
Periodic nonsinusoidal signals Harmonic series
Harmonic series • Harmonic frequencies are integer multiples of the fundamental frequency, i.e. w, 2w, 3w, 4w … • Dirichlet’s rule states that the energy in higher harmonics falls off exponentially with the frequency of the harmonic • Note, however, that some animals alter the amplitude of harmonics by selective filtering during sound production
Compound signals • Nonsinusoidal modulation of a sine wave • Sinusoidal modulation of a nonsinusoidal carrier wave • Nonsinusoidal modulation of a nonsinusoidal carrier wave
Fourier analysis of aperiodic signals • Most natural signals have a short, not infinite, duration • The more aperiodic a signal is, the more frequency components are needed to describe the signal with a Fourier series • In the limit, an infinitely short signal has constant amplitude at all frequencies, a delta pulse
Fourier “windows” Bartlett Hamming
Aliasing Nyquist frequency = 1/2 the sampling frequency
Sound spectrum “waterfall” Song sparrow
Sonagram Song sparrow Narrow bandwidth analysis is good for frequency measurements, but not accurate for time measurements