On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM, V G wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Yigit Turgut wrote: >> You would be surprised =A0what those kids are capable of (: > > Actually, no, not really. I misinterpreted that you were referring to engineering students not knowing mmHg and so on. On the other hand everyone has a potential (: > >> If the signal is non-periodic than it can be expressed as sum of >> different frequency components (cos and sin). Thus FT of the signal >> will not be continuous consisting of discrete components (each >> component/spike corresponds to a frequency). > > Is the Fourier Transform truly not coninuous or does it have sections > of zero amplitude? There IS a difference. Fourier transform is not continuous. A time domain signal is not continuous also, there is nothing such as continuous. Perception of a continuous signal is related to the observation capabilities. A fourier transformed signal can be perceived as continuous if it contains all the spectrum, which is not possible. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .