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Periodic Signals

Module by: Michael Haag, Justin Romberg

Summary: This module defines a periodic function and describes the two common ways of thinking about a periodic signal.

Recall that a periodic function is a function that repeats itself exactly after some given period, or cycle. We represent the definition of a periodic function mathematically as:

ft=ft+mT ∀m:m∈ℤ f t f t m T m m (1)
where T>0 T 0 represents the period. Because of this, you may also see a signal referred to as a T-periodic signal. Any function that satisfies this equation is periodic.

We can think of periodic functions (with period TT) two different ways:

#1) as functions on all of ℝ

Figure 1: Function over all of ℝ where f t 0 =f t 0 +T f t 0 f t 0 T
Figure 1 (per_fxn1.png)

#2) or, we can cut out all of the redundancy, and think of them as functions on an interval 0T 0 T (or, more generally, aa+T a a T ). If we know the signal is T-periodic then all the information of the signal is captured by the above interval.

Figure 2: Remove the redundancy of the period function so that ft f t is undefined outside 0T 0 T .
Figure 2 (per_fxn2.png)

An aperiodic CT function ft f t does not repeat for any T∈ℝ T ; i.e. there exists no T T s.t. this equation holds.

Question: DT definitions?

Continuous-Time

Discrete-Time

Note: Circular vs. Line

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