Timenuts, In introductory texts regarding the FFT there is some mention of Fourier's studies having had something to do with heat transfer. Yet most of the FFT work I've been exposed to has to do with decomposing signals into component sinusoids, translating between time and frequency domain, etc.
Does anyone have a "layman's" explanation of how this relates to what Fourier was trying to do with heat transfer? I suspect my problem is mostly one of "student density", but I can't make the connection between heat transfer and what I think of when I think of FFT (unless I were to relate it to infrared radiation, which I don't suppose Fourier would have been thinking about...) Thanks, in advance, Mark "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." -- Mohandas Gandhi _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
