Why the Fourier Transform
20/10/2004
Summary:
- Signal domains and their Fourier transforms
- Continuous infinite (FT)
- Continuous finite (FS)
- Discrete infinite (DTFT)
- Discrete finite (DFT)
- Energy for complex-valued signals
- Dot product for complex valued signals
- Eigenvectors of any LTI system
- Exponentials
- Exponentials with imaginary rates (spirals!)
- Proof - Cork-Screw Effect
- A screw translated is a screw rotated
- A spiral later is like the spiral rotated
- Rotation in complex numbers is scaling
- Thus, a spiral later is the spiral scaled
- Input scales, output scales by same amount
- Same scale, same rotation
- Output later is output rotated
- Eigenvalue corresponding to this eigenvector is also Fourier transform
- Only like spirals interact
- Convolution in signal domain is multiplication in Fourier domain
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