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- From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: Energy within a Digitized Pulse
- Keywords: Attenuation, Energy, :-)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.002043.16110@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:20:43 GMT
- References: <15598@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <60983@aurs01.UUCP> <dak.712512304@tabaqui>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <dak.712512304@tabaqui> dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) writes:
- >Usually you interpret the digital values as Dirac pulses with the appropriate
- >amplitude. The energy of a single such pulse is infinite. However,
- >the digitized pulses are lowpass-filtered before reproduction, thus achieving
- >finite energy again. Without this filtering (even if obly in theory or
- >conceptional) energy cannot be calculated.
-
- Usually I interpret the digital values as impulse (delta) functions with the
- appropriate *energy*. Delta functions are defined by their integrals, such
- that integrating over a single pulse gives a finite energy. The amplitude
- of an impulse is infinite, but it's duration is infinitesimal.
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- Dave Kemp dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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