Using F0 as the carrier is a carryover from the Communication Textbooks.
Authors would refer to the carrier tone as f0 and went from there. They
rarely were thinking in terms of Fourier Transforms.
- Robert -
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [email protected] wrote:
> Jeff:
>
> If the Fundamental is the First Harmonic, and should be written as F1 (and
> subsequent harmonics F2 and F3 being double and triple the Fundamental
> frequency), then F0, or the Zeroth Harmonic (being zero times the F1) is
> always zero Hz (aka DC).
>
> That sounds mathematically consistent.
>
> However, I have seen, countless times, the use of F0 to represent the
> fundamental frequency of a signal. For instance, a frequency step from F0 to
> F0 + 1 MHz. Or as in a sweep from 20% below F0 to 20% above F0.
>
> Are we just looking at two different sides of the same elephant?
>
> Ed
>
>
> ------------------------
> From: Jeff Chambers <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Harmonics
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:41:52 +0100
> To: Gary McInturff <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'"
> <[email protected]>, Robert Macy <[email protected]>, Scott Douglas
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
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