EXPLORATIONS OF SIGNAL ANALYSIS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND Russell Herman Gabriel Lugo University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Outline Projects – High School through College Tools Theory Typical Project Examples
Projects Sounds Music Birds Dolphins EKG-ECG-EEG Ocean Waves
Tools Sound Editors Theory Support Cool Edit Gold Wave Audacity PPC Applications Theory Support Mathcad, Maple, Matlab VB Modules Web Applets
Cool Edit
Gold Wave
Addition of Sines
Adding Sine Waves Birds\Untitled (8.2).wav Birds\tone.wav Birds\pt.wav
Theory Fourier Series Fourier Analysis Sum of Sines Spectrum Analysis Harmonic Analysis = +
Fourier Series
Fourier Series
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Fourier Expansion: Power Spectrum Comparison between f(x)and F(x)
Typical Project Addition of Sinusoidal Functions Explorations Using Sound Editors Picking Out Dominant Frequencies Reconstruction and Fine Tuning
Example #1 - Birds
Birds: Reconstruction Birds\firstbird.wav Birds\Recbird.wav
More Birds Birds\owl2.wav Birds\newowl.wav -0.025991*cos(2*pi*1327.0833*t)+0.033382*cos(2*pi*1329.8423*t)+-0.043522*cos(2*pi*1332.6014*t)+ 0.061318*cos(2*pi*1335.3604*t)+-0.081395*cos(2*pi*1338.1194*t)+0.09432*cos(2*pi*1340.8784*t)+ -0.096081*cos(2*pi*1343.6374*t)+0.090427*cos(2*pi*1346.3964*t)+-0.058718*cos(2*pi*1349.1554*t)+ 0.047292*cos(2*pi*1354.6734*t)+-0.090452*cos(2*pi*1357.4324*t)+0.091498*cos(2*pi*1360.1914*t)+ -0.044081*cos(2*pi*1362.9505*t)+-0.03472*cos(2*pi*1365.7095*t)+0.075536*cos(2*pi*1368.4685*t)+ -0.039251*cos(2*pi*1371.2275*t)+-0.058875*cos(2*pi*1373.9865*t)+0.12712*cos(2*pi*1376.7455*t)+ -0.077859*cos(2*pi*1379.5045*t)+-0.062965*cos(2*pi*1382.2635*t)+0.13712*cos(2*pi*1385.0225*t)+ 0.12768*cos(2*pi*1390.5405*t)+0.081571*cos(2*pi*1393.2995*t)+0.070206*cos(2*pi*1396.0586*t)+ -0.022393*cos(2*pi*1398.8176*t)+-0.11979*cos(2*pi*1401.5766*t)+0.094213*cos(2*pi*1407.0946*t)+ 0.06029*cos(2*pi*1409.8536*t)+-0.076122*cos(2*pi*1412.6126*t)+-0.13165*cos(2*pi*1415.3716*t)+ -0.043479*cos(2*pi*1418.1306*t)+0.074439*cos(2*pi*1420.8896*t)+0.13719*cos(2*pi*1423.6486*t)+ 0.08474*cos(2*pi*1426.4077*t)+-0.060982*cos(2*pi*1431.9257*t)+-0.049597*cos(2*pi*1434.6847*t)+ -0.036721*cos(2*pi*1445.7207*t)+-0.024337*cos(2*pi*1448.4797*t)+0.032224*cos(2*pi*1456.7568*t)+ .033543*cos(2*pi*1459.5158*t)+0.024255*cos(2*pi*1465.0338*t)
Vibrating Beams