Friday Math Movie – Sine Wave to Square Wave using Fourier Series
We learned about sine waves in elementary trigonometry:
The idea behind the Fourier Series is to add sine curves with different amplitudes and frequencies and the resulting curve can be either a square wave, a sawtooth wave or many other interesting periodic shapes. You can see more on this concept in this Introduction to Fourier Series.
This week’s movie begins with a pure sine wave tone and then the other sine curves are added to it to produce something very close to a square wave (with the odd wiggle here and there) as the number of added curves becomes very large.
Warning: The final square wave tone may be pretty loud.
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26 Nov 2008 at 1:14 pm Link to this comment
Your work is very awsome..^^ please show us your solution in solving higher dimension^^