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Latest revision as of 16:30, 5 November 2007
Download FT, wavepackets, bandwidth ... |
A few examples of the importance of Gaussian distributions
Maxwell Boltzmann velocity distribution
It turns out that the FWHM is nontrivial: this link shows how to compute it
the answer turns out to be
The fundamental property of the delta function: you must remember this
if .
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Remember, in the former case, you evaluate at the point where the argument of the delta function is zero. In this case when
Two nice links on Sinc functions: from Mathworld and Wikipedia
Download Interfering gaussians |
The following two figures are from Barbara Romanowicz, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Download lecture notes from 10/29/07 |
Download lecture notes from 10/31/07 |
very nice graphical illustration of the convolution
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Download Optional digression on sampling theorem |