[sdiy] harmonic generator

[Andre Majorel]

On 2002-03-05 18:47 -0500, media.nai at rcn.com wrote:

> >My understanding is that a full-wave rectified (absolute value) sine wave
> >contains an infinite even harmonic series. A square wave contains an
> >infinite odd harmonic series.
> 
> Is that true??

Definitely true for the square wave. An ideal square wave is
sin n + 1/3 sin 3n + 1/5 sin 5n + ... Try it with a plotting
program. Actual devices have finite bandwidth so you only get the
harmonics up to 20 kHz or so.

-- 
André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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