Average Power for Frequency < Fundamental Frequency: An Analysis

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The discussion focuses on the average power of a periodic rectangular pulse signal with a fundamental frequency of 100 Hz when analyzed at a frequency of 50 Hz. The signal's Fourier series indicates that it contains only the fundamental frequency and its harmonics, with no component at 50 Hz. Consequently, the average power at 50 Hz is effectively zero, as the signal does not include this frequency. The analysis confirms that average power calculations using trigonometric Fourier expansion apply only to integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. Therefore, for frequencies below the fundamental frequency, such as 50 Hz, average power cannot be defined in the same manner.
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We have a periodic signal of period 10 ms and amplitude 2.The signal is a rectangular pulse from -5/2 to 5/2 and 0 from 5/2 to 19/2.This signals fundamental frequency(f0) is 100Hz.It is passed through a filter whose response is 1/(1+jf/f0.I calculated the average power using the trignometric Fourier series expansion.I get the average total power for f=100,200 etc.But what will be the average power for f=50Hz.Will there be an average power for a freq less than fundamental frequency.Because we get nf0=f.For f=50Hz n=1/2.But the trignometric Fourier expansion talks only about the integer values of n.So wat is the avg power at f=50 Hz?
 
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This signal doesn't have a component at 50Hz. It only has the DC component, the fundamental and the components at positive integer multiples of the fundamental frequency (the harmonics).
 
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