even and odd signals

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bhuvanesh

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Signals can be in nature or we artificially produce it. In nature no signals are going to be in even or odd. so other option we have is to produce.So my next question is why we want to produce such signal(even and odd signal) ?

content form my signal book by oppenheim
any signal can be broken into sum of even and odd signals
why we need to do even-odd decomposition for the signal.what is the use in that ?

Thank you in advance
 

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bhuvanesh

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i dont get any idea.we can use it to separate sin(odd) and cosine(even) signal .May be in later studies(dft,fourier)i may come to the use of even and odd signal.but so far as now i want to knkow why we decompose odd and even component of signal what is the use of that?
 

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bhuvanesh

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Average mean list of numbers divided by number of numbers

Average value of odd signal mean taking integration of odd signal over duration and dividing it by that duration. Am i making any sense
 

WBahn

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Average mean list of numbers divided by number of numbers

Average value of odd signal mean taking integration of odd signal over duration and dividing it by that duration. Am i making any sense
Some, but I'm not convinced that you understand the concept of an "average".

In the first case, if I have the following list of numbers: {10, 20, 30, 40}, your description would mean that the average is {2.5, 5, 7.5, 10}.

I don't think that is what you meant to say, but it is what you actually said.

If I have 20 gallon milk containers and each has a different amount of milk in them and I tell you that the average amount of milk in each container is 0.25 gal, how did I arrive at that and what does knowing that average tell you?
 

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bhuvanesh

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I don't think that is what you meant to say, but it is what you actually said.
i mean summation of list of numbers divided by number of numbers like((10+20+30+40)/4)
If I have 20 gallon milk containers and each has a different amount of milk in them and I tell you that the average amount of milk in each container is 0.25 gal, how did I arrive at that and what does knowing that average tell you?
it mean you are saying that averagely 2.5 litres in each milk container (some can have little high and low).it is also used to share the equally 2.5 gallons among them. Am i making any sense
 

WBahn

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i mean summation of list of numbers divided by number of numbers like((10+20+30+40)/4)

it mean you are saying that averagely 2.5 litres in each milk container (some can have little high and low).it is also used to share the equally 2.5 gallons among them. Am i making any sense
Just knowing that I have 20 containers that have, on average, 0.25 gallons each lets you determine several things. First and foremost you know that I have a total of 5 gallons milk. You don't need to know the details of how much milk is in each container (i.e., a list of 20 different numbers) in order to determine that. So knowing the average tells you something about the collection as a whole. It does NOT tell you everything, nor does it tell you anything about any one of the containers in particular. Sure, you can say that at least five of the containers have at least some milk in them and, similarly, that at most five containers are completely full. You can also assert that there is at least one container that has at least 0.25 gallon in it and, similarly, that there is at least one container that has no more than 0.25 gallons in it. Sometimes being able to assert things like this is all that is needed to solve a problem and sometimes it's not. It's entirely possible that ten of the containers have never had a drop of milk in them ever or that no container has less than a pint of milk or more than three pints -- the knowledge about the average is insufficient to answer these questions.
 

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bhuvanesh

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okay,but how would you relate it to my question tachnically. Non technically i am okay with what you saying let get back here
What is the average value of an odd signal?
let consider voltage wave here i can say average voltage by rms and current in same analogy ,is what your expecting
 

WBahn

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okay,but how would you relate it to my question tachnically. Non technically i am okay with what you saying let get back here

let consider voltage wave here i can say average voltage by rms and current in same analogy ,is what your expecting
I'm expecting a very specific number.

What, by definition, is an odd signal?

What is the average value, over all time (or even over any pair of symmetric limits) of such a signal?
 

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bhuvanesh

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okay lets turn the plate i am asking you What is the average value, over all time (or even over any pair of symmetric limits) of such a signal?
you state the answer
 

WBahn

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This Homework Help, not Homework Done For You. You need to show an effort to work it out. That way I can see where you are going right and where you are going wrong.

Start with the first part. What is the mathematical definition of an odd signal?
 

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bhuvanesh

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Thank you sire

mathematical definition is x(t)=-x(-t)

A signal x(t) is anti-symmetric about about vertical axis is said to be odd signal
 

WBahn

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Thank you sire

mathematical definition is x(t)=-x(-t)

A signal x(t) is anti-symmetric about about vertical axis is said to be odd signal
Okay.

So now, given a signal x(t) (may or may not be odd or even, it's just a signal) defined over all time, what is the mathematical expression that is used to find its average value?
 
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