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Above is a plot of the original sine wave data. Note the number of sampling points per cyc
To compute the FFT of this signal, go to the Data Analysis menu under
You will be prompted to select the data range; here that is column B, cells 2
The results appear on the worksheet named "FFT results"

Note: Because of the manner in which the FFT works, it is required that you select a set (
which has a length which is a power of 2 (i.e., 2^N). Generally this is not the case for you
you will need to select a subset of your data which satisfies this requirement. Furtther, in
of your data is restricted to a maximum of 4,096

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umber of sampling points per cycle here (=20).

menu under Tools and select Fourier Analysis.

s column B, cells 2-257.

s required that you select a set (or subset) of data

erally this is not the case for your data set and
es this requirement. Furtther, in Excel, the length

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frequency (Hz): 5
sampling rate (Hz): 100
The output of the FFT appears in Column A. Note that the output is a collection of
complex-valued coefficients; this is because the Fourier transform itself is complex
valued. To obtain meaningful results for our set of real-valued signal data it is
necessary to calculate the modulus of the complex coefficients. This is easily done
using the Excel function IMABS(cell_number). The results appear in Column B.
Next, we need to determine the actual frequencies to which each of the Fourier
coefficients correspond to. It turns out that the maximum frequency we can resolve
(the Nyquist frequency) is equal to one-half the sampling frequency. The frequency
resolution in the output is equal to the Nyquist frequency divided by one-half the
number of data points in the original sample. In other words, the frequency resolution
Delta_f = Sampling Frequency/N.
For (historical) reasons of computational efficiency, the Fourier coefficients are
returned in the following order: start with the zero-frequency (DC component) and then
in increasing frequency (in increments of Delta_f above) up to the Nyquist frequency
(1/2 sampling frequency); after this the frequency starts at the most negative
frequency and then counts down towards the zero frequency in ascending (less
negative order). The negative frequencies do not concern us, since they are only
relevant if one is analyzing a complex valued signal. Here, for a real-valued signal you
see that the Fourier coefficients at the corresponding negative and positive
frequencies are actually complex conjugates of each other. Note that since we are
only interested in the modulus of the coefficient (for which a value and its complex
conjugate are the same), the plot of the Fourier moduli results in a graph which is
symmetric about the origin (zero frequency). In the data at the left, only the
frequencies for half the total spectrum were calculated since the negative frequencies
are not needed.
Since we only need

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Above is a plot of the original sine wave data. Note the number of sampling points per cycle
To compute the FFT of this signal, go to the Data Analysis menu under Tools
You will be prompted to select the data range; here that is column B, cells 2
The results appear on the worksheet named "FFT results"

Note: Because of the manner in which the FFT works, it is required that you select a set (o
which has a length which is a power of 2 (i.e., 2^N). Generally this is not the case for your
you will need to select a subset of your data which satisfies this requirement. Furtther, in E
of your data is restricted to a maximum of 4,096

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mber of sampling points per cycle here (=20).

menu under Tools and select Fourier Analysis.
column B, cells 2-257.

s required that you select a set (or subset) of data

erally this is not the case for your data set and
s this requirement. Furtther, in Excel, the length

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