Tuesday 13 October 2015

FFT of sine wave not coming as expected i.e single point


The cyan plot is a spectrum of 50 Hz, and the magenta one is a 50.1 Hz sine wave (having amplitude 0.7). Both are sampled at 1024 samples/s. I performed a 1024 point FFT to get this spectrum.


Why is only the 50Hz spectrum a single value? Why does the 50.1 Hz sine consist of other frequencies apart from 50.1 Hz; where do these new frequencies come from?


I did not do any non-linear processing on the 50.1 Hz signal! Also the 50.1 Hz appears to have smaller maximum amplitude, i.e. it's not 0.7, when in fact the sine wave I generated has an amplitude of 0.7.


Why is this?


Two spectra, for 50Hz and 50.1Hz respectively Obtained by MATALB command fft();




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