Harmonic power of a square wave

ID: harmonic-power-of-a-square-wave

A zero-mean square wave of amplitude has total mean-square signal power . Each positive odd Fourier harmonic and its negative-frequency partner contribute , by its exact Fourier coefficients. The fundamental pair therefore accounts for of the total. The sum of contributions above harmonic index decays on the order of , although the discontinuous waveform still requires arbitrarily high harmonics for exact reconstruction.

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