So we started Fourier seriers

[Molondo]

Proff wasn't clear on it. Something about being used alot in electronics. Whats the application? Thanks.

 

[Howard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series

 

[MSCoder610]

Lol, coincidentally I'm considering signing up for a class about that without knowing anything about them, also.
According to my school's course description they're used for "signal processing and data compression."

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Molondo
Proff wasn't clear on it. Something about being used alot in electronics. Whats the application? Thanks.

To express functions as a sum of sines and cosines. It's useful because you can easily get the frequency response of the signal.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: MSCoder610
Lol, coincidentally I'm considering signing up for a class about that without knowing anything about them, also.
According to my school's course description they're used for "signal processing and data compression."

Sounds like Information Theory.

 

[Rastus]

We used them to generate random vibrations for a test cell. Early 90's. The computer used had 8 68030 processors.

Prime 95 uses them to verifiy very large mersene primes.

 

[jagec]

We use them to extract the speed of sound in a material from the raw ISS signal.

 

[LordMorpheus]

they are the best thing ever, and not just for elec applications.

Well not Fourier series specifically, but that family of transform is truly wonderful.

 

[Molondo]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
they are the best thing ever, and not just for elec applications.

Well not Fourier series specifically, but that family of transform is truly wonderful.

I certanly hope so, some of the problems take up lots of paper. ha!