Jerry Avins wrote: ...> Yes. I used to program my IMSAI Nova from the front panel toggles.IMSAI and Nova 1200> Jerry-- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
Laplace Transform vs Fourier transform
Started by ●October 27, 2009
Reply by ●November 1, 20092009-11-01
Reply by ●November 1, 20092009-11-01
On Nov 1, 2:22=A0am, stevem1 <steve.martind...@gmail.com> wrote:> > OK, back to the ~original question,that's not the original question. the original question was what does LT offer that FT does not. there was something about frequency in FT being a real physical quantity (where "s" might be more abstract) and i stated that negative frequency in FT had no physical manifestation whereas it did exist mathematically in the FT. then from that the discussion went on about (my paraphrase) if e^(iwt) exists physically (because if e^(iwt) *does* exist physically, then so also does negative frequency).> why is the LT defined for postitive values of "t" ? > At one point I thought this had something to do w/ turning on the > signal at time "0"there are definitions for the LT that has meaningful definition for negative t (called the "double-sided" LT). since t=3D0 is arbitrary, there is no reason it can't be. one problem is that there are many signals (like decaying exponentials) that cannot be "turned on" all the way back to t=3D-inf and be expected to converge for the FT. it *can* converge for the LT but only if "sigma" (the real part of "s") is greater than the "alpha" in e^(alpha*t). one reason that the single-sided LT is useful (but applicable only to signals that are always zero for t<0) is that both the differential equation *and* the initial conditions (at t=3D0) get integrated into the LT elegantly, whereas with classical diff eq, first you solve the diff eq (leaving you with a number, equal to the DEQ order, of undetermined constants) and then those constants are solved for by use of initial or boundary conditions. r b-j
Reply by ●November 1, 20092009-11-01
On Nov 1, 11:53=A0am, Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> wrote:> Jerry Avins wrote: > > =A0 =A0... > > > Yes. I used to program my IMSAI Nova from the front panel toggles. > > IMSAI and Nova 1200 >i remember seeing one of them. <shudder>. fortunately for me, i didn't have to deal with it. the first microprocessor i ever had to enter code into was the Motorola M6800D2 kit. still hand-assembly, but a hex keypad beats binary toggle switches any day in 1975. r b-j
Reply by ●November 1, 20092009-11-01
"Jerry Avins" <jya@ieee.org> wrote in message news:92jHm.8297$Cc6.5776@newsfe07.iad...> Jerry Avins wrote: > > ... > >> Yes. I used to program my IMSAI Nova from the front panel toggles. > > IMSAI and Nova 1200 > >> Jerry > -- > Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. > �����������������������������������������������������������������������A friend of mine had an IMSAI. I played around many years ago on the TX-0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX-0 in which the first 32(IIRC) 18 bit words of memory could be either core, or by changing a switch, a matrix of switches. Just toggle in a program and press the run button... --Phil
Reply by ●November 2, 20092009-11-02
Dnia 31-10-2009 o 09:38:06 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> napisa�(a):>>> Another place where complex numbers seem more than just an abstraction >>> is the evanescent wave:No, it just possess human readable interpretation in this specific case so we are very lucky. Complex numbers are just a method (tool) of 2D dependence representation, in this case 2D electric vs magnetic field dependence at once.> Impedances and dielectric constants by their effect on currents, > voltages, and electric fields. Voltages and currents have phase, > but impedances don't.Impedance has "phase". That makes it complex. Phase means delay (from number of origins, energy flow and transformation an loses) and this is real, it physicaly exist. We can describe it in a pair of bonded real equation but it looks nice in just one in special field of numbers. -- Mikolaj
Reply by ●November 2, 20092009-11-02
Dnia 30-10-2009 o 01:05:10 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> napisa�(a):> robert bristow-johnson <rbj@audioimagination.com> wrote: > >> well, you'll have to judge if i act like that. from where i stand, >> all's i'm saying is that real (meaning that they really exist) >> physical quantities are measured as real numbers. > > Many physical quantities aren't necessarily real. > Index of refraction is usually complex. > Closer to DSP, impedance is often complex. > > -- glenYou are misleading quantity (or index, proportion) with property. Percentile is a quantity. Any property (physical) is real. Non real things doesn't exist by the actual definition of reality and the real things we name properties. Maybe in english there is no specific words to desribe reality so I may not be as specific as I wish. It doesn't mean that imaginary numbers can only describe non existent "things". I don't know what you mean by idex of refraction but I'm sure that it is usualy described in complex form bu it doesn't mean that it is magical. They are existent dependencies worn in a nice 2dimensional form. There is nothing strange to use imaginary to describe reality, it is just an agreement, nomenclature and tool of description. It's a language. -- Mikolaj
