[PDF] fft basics tutorial

from Smoothie to Recipe

A math transformation is a change of perspective. We change our notion of quantity from "single items" (lines in the sand, tally system) to "groups of 10" (decimal) depending on what we're counting. Scoring a game? Tally it up. Multiplying? Decimals, please. The Fourier Transform changes our perspective from consumer to producer, turning What do I ...

See The World as Cycles

The Fourier Transform takes a specific viewpoint: What if any signal could be filtered into a bunch of circular paths? Whoa. This concept is mind-blowing, and poor Joseph Fourier had his idea rejected at first. (Really Joe, even a staircase pattern can be made from circles?) And despite decades of debatein the math community, we expect students to ...

Think with Circles, Not Just Sinusoids

One of my giant confusions was separating the definitions of "sinusoid" and "circle". 1. A "sinusoid" is a specific back-and-forth pattern (a sineor cosine wave), and 99% of the time, it refers to motion in one dimension. 2. A "circle" is a round, 2d pattern you probably know. If you enjoy using 10-dollar words to describe 10-cent ideas, you might ...

Following Circular Paths

Let's say we're chatting on the phone and, like usual, I want us to draw the same circle simultaneously. (You promised!) What should I say? 1. How big is the circle? (Amplitude, i.e. size of radius) 2. How fast do we draw it? (Frequency. 1 circle/second is a frequency of 1 Hertz (Hz) or 2*pi radians/sec) 3. Where do we start? (Phase angle, where 0 ...

Making A Spike in Time

Can we make a spike in time, like (4 0 0 0), using cycles? I'll use parentheses () for a sequence of time points, and brackets []for a sequence of cycles. Although the spike seems boring to us time-dwellers (one data point, that's it?), think about the complexity in the cycle world. Our cycle ingredients must start aligned (at the max value, 4) and...

Moving The Time Spike

Not everything happens at t=0. Can we change our spike to (0 4 0 0)? It seems the cycle ingredients should be similar to (4 0 0 0), but the cycles must align at t=1 (one second in the future). Here's where phase comes in. Imagine a race with 4 runners. Normal races have everyone lined up at the starting line, the (4 0 0 0)time pattern. Boring. What...

Discovering The Full Transform

The big insight: our signal is just a bunch of time spikes! If we merge the recipes for each time spike, we should get the recipe for the full signal. The Fourier Transform builds the recipe frequency-by-frequency: 1. Separate the full signal (a b c d) into "time spikes": (a 0 0 0) (0 b 0 0) (0 0 c 0) (0 0 0 d) 2. For any frequency (like 2Hz), the ...

Onward

This was my most challenging article yet. The Fourier Transform has several flavors (discrete/continuous/finite/infinite), covers deep math (Dirac delta functions), and it's easy to get lost in details. I was constantly bumping into the edge of my knowledge. But there's always simple analogies out there -- I refuse to think otherwise. Whether it's ...

Appendix: Projecting onto Cycles

Stuart Riffle has a great interpretationof the Fourier Transform: Imagine spinning your signal in a centrifuge and checking for a bias. I have a correction: we must spin backwards (the exponent in the equation above should be e?i2?...). You already know why: we need a phase delay so spikes appear in the future.

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What is FFT based signal analysis?

The basic functions for FFT-based signal analysis are the FFT, the Power Spectrum, and the Cross Power Spectrum. Using these functions as building blocks, you can create additional measurement functions such as frequency response, impulse response, coherence, amplitude spectrum, and phase spectrum.

Why should I use FFT?

FFTs produce the average frequency content of a signal over the entire time that the signal was acquired. For this reason, you should use FFTs for stationary signal analysis or in cases where you need only the average energy at each frequency line.

How to use FFT in Excel?

Input Range: select the range where the signal data is stored. The number of cells must be 2n number of samples. Output Range: select the range where the complex FFT will be stored. In our example, select the corresponding range in column E. After enter the information, as shown in the figure below, click OK.

How do you use FFT in an oscilloscope?

FFT Applications Most oscilloscopes have a FFT built into their math system these days. In the oscilloscope featured in the video, you just press Math and then turn on the FFT option. Then you can set various properties of the analysis, like the frequency range you want to look at.

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