Fourier transforms
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The Fourier Transform represents a function
as a "linear combination" of complex sinusoids at different frequencies
. Fourier proposed that a function may be written in terms of a sum of complex sine and cos functions with weighted amplitudes.
In Euler notation the complex exponential may be represented as:

Thus, the definition of a Fourier transform is usually represented in complex exponential notation.

The function
is the Fourier transform of
. This is often denoted with the operator
, in the case above, 
The function
must satisfy the Dirichlet conditions in order for
to have a valid Fourier transform.
Forward Fourier Transform(FT)/Anaysis Equation

Inverse Fourier Transform(IFT)/Synthesis Equation

[edit] Relation to the Laplace Transform
In fact, the Fourier Transform can be viewed as a special case of the bilateral Laplace Transform. If the complex Laplace variable s were written as
, then the Fourier transform is just the bilateral Laplace transform evaluated at
. This justification is not mathematically rigorous, but for most applications in engineering the correspondence holds.
[edit] Properties
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Linearity |
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Scalar Multiplication |
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Differentiation in time domain |
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Integration in Time domain |
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Differentiation in Frequency Domain |
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Time reversal |
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Time Scaling |
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Time shifting |
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Modulation |
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Modulation |
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Frequency shifting |
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Multiplication |


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