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Period, Frequency, and Angular Frequency
Period
Long long ago, in a high school class called trigonometry, we leaned about periodic functions. A periodic function is a function that repeats itself over and over for infinity. The period of the function is the distance of one iteration that is infinitely repeating.
Where T is the period
The picture to the right shows the plot of the standard sine function whose period is . What the plot does not show is that the line keeps extending and repeating the bumps and valleys over the whole x axis, or . But wait! Can't the period also be or ? In fact it can. Because the graph of sin(x) repeats itself every units, the period of the function is actually where n is any whole number from zero to Failed to parse (SVG with PNG fallback (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \infty}
Frequency and Angular Frequency
The Frequency is the number of periods per second and is defined mathematically as
The standard unit of measurement for frequency is Hz (Hertz). 1 Hz = 1 cycle/second
The Angular Frequency is defined as
The standard unit of measurement for angular frequency is in radians/second.
Fundamental Period, Frequency, and Angular Frequency
The fundamental period is the smallest positive real number for which the periodic equation holds true.
The fundamental frequency is defined as .
The fundamental angular frequency is defined as .
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Andrew Roth
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