A continuous (in time) sine wave can be defined as A*sin(2*PI*f*t)
, where A
is a certain amplitude, PI
, well, 3.14 ..., f
is the tone frequency in hertz and t
is time in seconds.
Now, since you do not have continuous time, since your time is discrete, you replace dt*i
instead of t
and get A*sin(2*PI*f*dt*i)
, where dt
is the time between samples or 1/sample rate
and i
are the sample number. You can specify it as A*sin(2*PI*(f/Fs)*i)
. Remember that if you select a specific sampling frequency Fs
(in samples / seconds or just Hz), the highest tone can never exceed Fs/2
Hz.
Alexey Frunze
source share