Thursday, July 9, 2015

Difference between Laplace transform and Fourier transform ?

Difference between Laplace transform and Fourier transform ?

Before answering to this question we should understand that why we neeed the transform .

The one can answer that , we need this to convert the time domain signal to frequency domain.

So , the next questions which should pop in our mind is if ,both method do the same , then why we need two  methods to convert a signals to time domain  I can only study one method which will be more than enough.

Answer to all lies here.

Lets take a signals f(t) for which i want to take the Fourier transform , now if you recall we can not take the transform of this signal until and unless , it should fallow or satisfy the Dirichlet_conditions.

So it means first difference which i can figure out right now is , fourier transform need to fallow the conditions while the laplace transform does not.

Another thing which we can state now , lets take my signal which is not summable ( means area under the function is not finite). Then i can not find the Fourier transform but i can find the Laplace transform.

Another difference is Parseval's_theorem which is only applicable in case of Fourier transform but not in case of Laplace transform.



Now if we look at the graph of e^(-sigma *t) , Laplace transform is trying to converge any signals , so when you applying the Parsevals theorem , then you will get the energy of the modified signal, nut not the original signals.


1 comment:

  1. In simple language...most of the practical application has time domain approach but the analysis is complex. So to make analysis simple we transform to frequency domain..

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