Thursday, January 04, 2007

Week 14: Lecture - The Square Wave

The square wave has a ‘harsher’ sound due to its harmonic content. It is useful and commonly used in audio testing. It contains all of the ‘odd’ harmonics (3,5,7,9) and therefore is not as smooth as the sine wave. It’s amplitude is determined by 1/n x the fundamental amplitude.

Time Domain Plot
Frequency Domain Plot

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