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How do you find the frequency and amplitude from Fourier?

Edit This is a popular question with several answers. This edit organises the answers and gives links. Fourier just gives y values (ordinates) if you wish to read off frequencies and amplitudes you ...
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How to calculate the Fourier Transform of a Gaussian pulse with a nonlinear chirp: Cos[ t + Exp[t^2] ]?

I have an optical pulse in time domain: Exp[-t^2] Cos[50 t - Exp[-2 t^2] 8 π]. The figure of this formula is I hope to calculate the Fourier Transform of this ...
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How to make Fourier behave like FourierTransform?

I'm not very experienced with Fourier Transforms, so there may be something inherently wrong with attempting to do this, but how can I make the discrete Fourier behave like the continuous ...
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DFT: Fourier Plot Not Giving Expected Result

I'm trying use Mathematica to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of a table of data points and then plot the result. As a test run, I took values from the function $x=f(t)=\sin(2\pi t)$ for ...
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Frequency of ticks in mechanical watches

I'm looking to find the frequency of a relatively large dataset (or a relatively short audio file) of a repeating sound, like so: Here are the original files, for those willing to play. :) eta2412 ...
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Discrete Fourier Transform - Inadequate precision and wrong peak positions

I have a small problem with a piece of code. I searched the site but was not able to find an answer to my specific question. I am trying a quick test of the Fourier capabilities (on lists) of ...
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Figuring out the frequency components using FFT [duplicate]

The function defined below has three frequencies 2, 4 and 10. How to use the Fourier transform (FFT) to show these frequencies? ...
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Parseval identity in one side Fourier Transform

Is there any posibility to apply Parseval identity(energy in time domain is equal to freq. domain) on One/Single-side Fourier transform? In other word for "standard" FT the test Mathematica can be <...
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DataRange in plotting Fourier

I'm trying to estimate a frequency spectrum of a given discrete function. I have a file which is filled of values of Sine-function $sin(t)$, where $t$ runs from $0.0$ to $100.0$ and a discrete step is ...
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Wrong frequency in Fourier

I have a file, filled with data like this: As you can see the approximate frequency is about $5/1000 = 0.005$, then angular frequency is about $2 \pi \times 0.005 \approx 0.03$. Then I use discrete ...
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finding Frequency of Sinewave data using Fourier

CONTEXT I read 5 different related posts but I do not understand how to interpret mathematica's output for my situation. ...
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Differences between FFT and analytical Fourier Transform

In MATLAB, if I perform an FFT on a simple Gaussian spot with a phase grating: ...
I'm solving a vibration problem. After solving two systems of ODEs (one valid in 0-0.1 and the other in 0.1-1) I get the plot of 3 functions, one of them is this, the plot of the variable $y_w$ (Image ...