Real and imaginary part of signal after fft

1. What do the real and imaginary parts of FFT represent?
2. What is the imaginary part of a Fourier transform mean?
3. Is the FFT of a real signal real?
4. What are the outputs of FFT?

What do the real and imaginary parts of FFT represent?

The real portion of an FFT result is how much each frequency component resembles a cosine wave, the imaginary component, how much each component resembles a sine wave.

What is the imaginary part of a Fourier transform mean?

If you consider the input as current, the transfer function or Fourier transform as impedance then the output is potential. If Fourier transform is impedance, then the real part of FT is resistive part of the impedance and imaginary part is the reactive part of the impedance.

Is the FFT of a real signal real?

Most real-world signals are real-valued. Therefore, you can use the real fast Fourier transform (FFT) for most applications. You also can use the complex FFT by setting the imaginary part of the signal to zero.

What are the outputs of FFT?

These frequencies actually represent the frequencies of the two sine waves which generated the signal. The output of the Fourier transform is nothing more than a frequency domain view of the original time domain signal.