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Angular frequency of a non-sinusoidal pulse
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[QUOTE="Intoto, post: 6041533, member: 601008"] I am not entirely sure how to respond to the question regarding the significance of the angular frequency, but I will try. The angular frequency of a wave is commonly encountered in many equations in nonlinear acoustics. An example of this would be the nondimensionalization of the classical Burgers equation. [ATTACH=full]229352[/ATTACH] Without getting into details, time t in the Burgers equation is commonly nondimensionalized through the use of a characteristic angular frequency: tau = t * omega . In this case tau is the dimensionless time and omega is the characteristic angular frequency. You can see the nondimensionlized equation containing the characteristic angular frequency terms above. Most texts do not comment on this matter, but in one of the texts I have gone through, they mentioned that for pulses the angular frequency may correspond to the dominant spectral component in the source waveform. I have not been able to determine what exactly they mean by dominant spectral component. Would this just correspond to the highest amplitude in a Fourier transform? [/QUOTE]
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