What is Magnitude and Phase actually represents in Fast Fourier Transform?

1. What does the magnitude of the Fourier transform represent?
2. What does phase represent in Fourier transform?
3. What is magnitude and phase?
4. What is phase and magnitude of a signal?

What does the magnitude of the Fourier transform represent?

For each frequency, the magnitude (absolute value) of the complex value represents the amplitude of a constituent complex sinusoid with that frequency, and the argument of the complex value represents that complex sinusoid's phase offset. If a frequency is not present, the transform has a value of 0 for that frequency.

What does phase represent in Fourier transform?

The phase of a signal generally refers to the timing of the signal (or how two sinusoids line up) as you posted in your question. But you are asking about the phase of a signal in the frequency domain (i.e., after an FFT operation). The FFT function computes an N-point complex DFT.

What is magnitude and phase?

Abstract. Every nonzero complex number can be expressed in terms of its magnitude and angle. This angle is sometimes called the phase or argument of the complex number. Although formulas for the angle of a complex number are a bit complicated, the angle has some properties that are simple to describe.

What is phase and magnitude of a signal?

The magnitude is the square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts. The phase is relative to the start of the time record or relative to a single-cycle cosine wave starting at the beginning of the time record. Single-channel phase measurements are stable only if the input signal is triggered.