Fourier theorem

physics

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acoustics

  • Acoustics
    In acoustics: Modern advances

    …commonly referred to as the Fourier theorem. The German physicist Georg Simon Ohm first suggested that the ear is sensitive to these spectral components; his idea that the ear is sensitive to the amplitudes but not the phases of the harmonics of a complex tone is known as Ohm’s law…

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steady-state waves

  • graphic representations of a sound wave
    In sound: The Fourier theorem

    According to the Fourier theorem, a steady-state wave is composed of a series of sinusoidal components whose frequencies are those of the fundamental and its harmonics, each component having the proper amplitude and phase. The sequence of components that form this complex wave is called its spectrum.

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