Hi all, I feel confused with some trivial questions and your help is highly appreciated. 1. Suppose Y(k) is the N point FFT of the original data, for me, the power spectrum is Y.*conj(Y). However, the example in "Matlab help" of fft tells that the power spectrum is Y.*conj(Y)/N. 2. I need to calculate the power of a specific band, for example 10-20Hz. What I do is just to take FFT and sum up the power of frequency components within 10-20Hz. I am wondering if it is a right way and if there is any other better way. 3. Suppose I have N samples in time domain and the time interval is t. I want to remove its low frequency components. So I desigh a K order FIR highpass filter. The length of the resulting signal is N+K-1. Does the time interval is still meaningful in the resulting signal? What if I still want to keep N samples of the resulting data? Thanks, Jeff
questions on FFT
Started by ●March 29, 2006
Reply by ●March 30, 20062006-03-30
jeffxia wrote: ...> 3. Suppose I have N samples in time domain and the time interval is t. I > want to remove its low frequency components. So I desigh a K order FIR > highpass filter. The length of the resulting signal is N+K-1. Does the > time interval is still meaningful in the resulting signal? What if I still > want to keep N samples of the resulting data?Let's say you have two polynomials, one with degree N and the other with degree K. You multiply them together, the new polynomial has degree N+K. Can you throw away some terms to make it have degree N? Obviously, if N is the number of samples on a CD, and K is a third-order difference filter, then you won't lose too much information if you truncate the filtered output back to N samples. If you have to, make sure that you throw away the right part of the output signal (this depends on whether your FIR is linear- or minimum-phase or none of the above). Regards, Andor