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- From: greg@gmp.lonestar.org (G.R. Basile)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: Energy within a Digitized Pulse
- Keywords: Attenuation, Energy
- Message-ID: <uJVgoB1w164w@gmp.lonestar.org>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 12:07:53 GMT
- References: <15458@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: GMP Research Co., Dallas TX
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- liuc@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Chia-Liang Liu) writes:
-
- > >1. The energy of a continuous time signal is just the integral of
- > >the square of the signal. For a digitized signal, is it true that
- > >the energy contained is just the sum of the squares of each point?
- >
- > Yes, if you assume that the sampling interval, Ts, is 1.0; otherwise
- > you need to multiply it by Ts to get the energy.
- >
-
- Isn't this only an approximation? For a countinuous signal the power is
- evaluated as the Integral of the function over a given period divided by
- the period. Isn't the above algorithm akin to evaulating the integration
- with Riemann sums. Simpson's rule could be used to increase the accuracy.
- I would think that the error gets significant as the the frequency of
- the function approaches half the sampling frequency.
- What would be an exact solution ?
-
- Greg Basile
- greg@gmp.lonestar.org
-