Solution

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The power linewidth is . Fourier frequency resolution is of order , so , and preferably longer to distinguish the intrinsic linewidth from the observation-window width. zero padding does not improve this physical resolution. A freely decaying signal also needs sufficient microphone dynamic range.

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