PlotFourierSpectrum

PlotFourierSpectrum plots the Fourier spectrum of a given data set.

PlotFourierSpectrum is a set of Matlab code that will plot the Fourier spectrum of an array of data, given a sampling frequency. It is based on the discrete Fourier transform. It allows you to experiment with changing the data and sampling frequencies, without having to worry each time about the arcane details of how to plot the spectrum.

The plot that is produced extends over both positive and negative frequencies. Various plotting options can be specified, such as plotting the absolute values of the Fourier coefficients, plotting their real and imaginary parts separately, or plotting the full complex values of these coefficients.

The package also contains a "how to use" pdf file, and several functions that can be used more generally in calculations involving the discrete Fourier transform.

This release is a minor update. I have made the plots in the usage pdf slightly better, and have simplified the code in a few places. The one "major" change is to two comments in Dft.m and DftInverse.m. These two comments referred in passing to Matlab's "dot" function and used that function in a (commented) code snippet, without my realising that "dot" complex-conjugates its first argument. So I've changed those comments to omit mention of "dot".