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- What is cutoff frequency in signal processing?
- Why is frequency domain sampling necessary?
- How does frequency domain work?
- What is frequency domain representation?
What is cutoff frequency in signal processing?
The cutoff frequency, or cutoff, determines where the signal is cut off. Simpler synthesizers have only lowpass filters. If a signal contains frequencies that range from 20 to 4000 Hz and the cutoff frequency is set at 2500 Hz, frequencies above 2500 Hz are filtered.
Why is frequency domain sampling necessary?
The frequency domain representation of a signal allows you to observe several characteristics of the signal that are either not easy to see, or not visible at all when you look at the signal in the time domain. For instance, frequency-domain analysis becomes useful when you are looking for cyclic behavior of a signal.
How does frequency domain work?
The Frequency domain works by allowing a representation of the qualitative behavior of a system, as well as characteristics of the way the system response to changes in bandwidth, gain, phase shift, harmonics, etc. A discipline in which the frequency domain is used for graphical representation is in music.
What is frequency domain representation?
The frequency domain representation of a periodic signal is a line spectrum. It can only have non-zero values at DC, the fundamental frequency, and harmonics of the fundamental. Because periodic signals have no beginning or end, non-zero periodic signals have infinite energy but generally have finite power.
