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MIT18 01SCF10 Ex08sol

The sinc function is defined as sinc(x) = sin(x)/x. This function is used in signal processing and includes sound recording and radio transmission. To sketch the graph of sinc(x), the graphs of sin(x) and 1/x are superimposed. The graph of sinc(x) oscillates between the graphs of 1/x and -1/x. It is an even function, moving up and down between -1/x and 1/x when x is negative or positive. The final graph of sinc(x) is shown.

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MIT18 01SCF10 Ex08sol

The sinc function is defined as sinc(x) = sin(x)/x. This function is used in signal processing and includes sound recording and radio transmission. To sketch the graph of sinc(x), the graphs of sin(x) and 1/x are superimposed. The graph of sinc(x) oscillates between the graphs of 1/x and -1/x. It is an even function, moving up and down between -1/x and 1/x when x is negative or positive. The final graph of sinc(x) is shown.

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The Function sinc(x)

The unnormalized sinc function is dened to be: sinc(x) = sin x . x

This function is used in signal processing, a eld which includes sound recording and radio transmission. 1 Use your understanding of the graphs of sin(x) and x together with what 1 you learned in this lecture to sketch a graph of sinc(x) = sin(x) x . Solution sin x = 1, we know that sinc(0) = 1. x Because sin(x) oscillates between positive and negative values, sinc(x) will do so as well. Except at x = 0, the x-intercepts of the graph of sinc(x) will match those of sin(x). We know that 1 sin(x) 1, so it must be true that: Because lim
x 0

1 sin x 1 . x x x
1 x 1 and x .

The graph of sinc(x) moves up and down between the graphs of

Figure 1: The graphs of sin(x) (green),

1 x

1 (blue) and x (red).

In drawing the graph of sinc(x) we start by superimposing the graphs of 1 1 and x . (See Figure 1.) sin(x), x 1

1 When x < 0, both x and sin(x) are negative, so their quotient is positive; sinc(x) turns out to be an even function. Knowing this, we quickly guess that the graph of sinc(x) looks like graph shown in Figure 2. (Its not easy to tell what the graph will look like near x = 0. We could deal with this by plotting a few points using a calculator or by learning more calculus and then returning to this problem.)

Figure 2: The graph of sinc(x).

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