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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2015 / Paper 1 / 4 / b / Solution by

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The filter is a real even triangular function. Its Fourier transform is

f (ω) = 2 \int_{0}^{1} (1 - t) cos (ω t) d t = \frac{2 ( 1 - cos ω )}{ω ^{2}} = [\frac{sin ( ω /2 )}{ω /2}]^{2},

(1)

with

f (0) = 1

. Since the transmitted pulse is the convolution

b = a * f

, the convolution theorem gives

b (ω) = a (ω) f (ω) = \frac{4 sin ω ( 1 - cos ω )}{ω ^{3}}, b (0) = 2.

(2)

The normalized filter preserves the time integral of the pulse, while its extra inverse-frequency factors suppress high-frequency content. It is a smoothing filter rather than an exact compact-bandwidth cutoff.

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