hi amir i think the amplitude of the peak is the absolute sum of the amplitudes of the input sampled signal. by plotting just y .u can see the amplitude of your input signal. sunil ----- Original Message ----- From: Amir Give'on <> To: <> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:55 PM Subject: [matlab] Signal amplitude and FFT's > I have a very simple problem. The answer might be complicated... :) > > I define a signal as: > > dx = 1000; > x = -pi:dx:pi; > y = A * sin(freq * x); > > now, I would like to look at the FFT of the signal: > > padding = 1000; > ffty = fft(y,padding); > > If I plot: > > plot(abs(ffty).^2) > > I get two peaks (as I expected). Now, my problem is how to go from > the HIGHT of the peaks in the Fourier domain back to the AMPLITUDE of > my sinusoidal ("A" in this case). I can assume I know everything > (number of points, limits, frequency) but the amplitude. > > > _____________________________________ > Note: If you do a simple "reply" with your email client, only the author of this message will receive your answer. You need to do a "reply all" if you want your answer to be distributed to the entire group. > > _____________________________________ > About this discussion group: > > To Join: > > To Post: > > To Leave: > > Archives: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/matlab > > More DSP-Related Groups: http://www.dsprelated.com/groups.php3 > > ">http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > |