Hello
I would like to thank all the people that made helpful comments on my previous post. I am retired age 70 and taking up electronics as a hobby after a career as a industrial physicist.
I purchased an FNIRSI 1014D oscilloscope recently (I could not afford a better one) and its pretty good for my analogue educational needs. It has a signal generator offering 14 kinds of different output waveforms.
I am now familiar with square, sine, sawtooth, triangle waveforms but wondered what the uses would be for the many other waveforms that can be generated.I will attach examples. What I find most difficult in electronics is observing a waveform or waveform distortion on a scope and figuring out what its telling me about the functioning or not of my circuit.
I have not come across a book yet or Internet paper that ascribes waveforms generated by specific pieces of electronic circuitry with interpretation given. Maybe someone can recommend that and suggest uses for some of the waveforms in my images attached.

 

Many, if not all, Electronic-Circuits are made-up of many smaller Circuit "Blocks",
each "Block" serves a particular function, and alters the Signal in a particular way.

You may want to simulate the estimated-Signal-Output at a certain point in a "chain of Blocks"
before the entire Circuit is fully designed or built,
and then see how your next Block is going to handle or alter that type of Signal.

A good example would be testing the efficiency of a proposed Filter design on a particular Waveform.
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Many, if not all, Electronic-Circuits are made-up of many smaller Circuit "Blocks",
each "Block" serves a particular function, and alters the Signal in a particular way.

You may want to simulate the estimated-Signal-Output at a certain point in a "chain of Blocks"
before the entire Circuit is fully designed or built,
and then see how your next Block is going to handle or alter that type of Signal.

A good example would be testing the efficiency of a proposed Filter design on a particular Waveform.
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Thankyou for your comment

 

Many, if not all, Electronic-Circuits are made-up of many smaller Circuit "Blocks",
each "Block" serves a particular function, and alters the Signal in a particular way.

You may want to simulate the estimated-Signal-Output at a certain point in a "chain of Blocks"
before the entire Circuit is fully designed or built,
and then see how your next Block is going to handle or alter that type of Signal.

A good example would be testing the efficiency of a proposed Filter design on a particular Waveform.
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.
.

In answer to my own question I found a youtube on complex periodic waveforms useful