Adding Harmonics of a sine wave together
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I have extracted harmonics of a sine wave through 'fft' in matlab. I considered the phase to define the signs of each harmonics - a two sided psd is shown in fig below. However when I add the first 8 harmonics, I do not get the exact sine wave as shown in fig below. Can some one help?
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/454478/image.jpeg)
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/442408/image.jpeg)
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Bjorn Gustavsson
il 8 Dic 2020
To get help from others you cannot remove the plot with the original function and your sum-of-sines approximations.
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Bjorn Gustavsson
il 3 Dic 2020
You have to take into account that the fft returns complex Fourier-coefficient - that is both real and imaginary components. So you have to use both sin and cos - terms in your sum, also the average of the signal is not zero so you should have a negative (?) DC-component giving you a constant off-set, that is absent from your plot.
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Bjorn Gustavsson
il 4 Dic 2020
No.
The Fourier-series approximation of your periodic signal is:
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/444893/image.png)
For your second "original curve" (orange with '.-') it is not the case that the average (DC-component) is zero, therefore a_0 is smaller than zero, and cos(0) is equal to 1. Since it is non-zero you have to use that term in your sum-of-Fourier-terms. It seems rather plausible that some of the other cosine-coefficients also are non-zero and they also have to be included.
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