these video lectures are pretty good, this is the first one but there's tons.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WScEpfGYQhY
naele
Mar8-08, 12:34 AM
In that vein, can anybody put together a few links to help learn/understand the math behind the fourier series? Just from eyeballing I'd guess a solid understanding of integration of trigonometric functions, but I'm sure there's more to it.
benabean
Jun8-08, 11:15 AM
these video lectures are pretty good, this is the first one but there's tons.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WScEpfGYQhY
This guy needs some valium!
Glad I don't have lectures with him at 9 on monday mornings :smile:
The explanation is great. He shows the contribution of every single sin and cos and then shows some vibrations with a computer program which show all the harmonics which contribute to building the periodic function.
Defennder
Jun11-08, 11:45 AM
Check out this website:
http://www.sosmath.com/fourier/fourier1/fourier1.html
It covers lots of other math topics and has practice questions with answers.
PhysicsDruid
Jun27-08, 04:41 AM
In that vein, can anybody put together a few links to help learn/understand the math behind the fourier series? Just from eyeballing I'd guess a solid understanding of integration of trigonometric functions, but I'm sure there's more to it.
Naele~
Fourier Series is a *special case* of a more general concept. Perhaps some key words you could look up online or in textbooks would be : orthogonality, basis states, fast fourier transform (FFT), orthonormal basis, maybe even Hilbert Space, or Gram Schmidt, or Legendre polynomials, or Sturm-Liouville.
rakesh_kpn
Oct31-08, 01:12 AM
You may try the following link..
http://www.freebookcentre.net/Mathematics/Fourier-Analysis-Books.html