Power spectrum of an aliased signal

The mirrored activity is irreversibly added up to the activity originally present in the frequency band below half the sampling frequency.

Original and mirrored activity can not be separated any more.

Next: Anti-aliasing filter


Example: the characteristic peak at 100 Hz is mapped to 28 Hz and added up to the activity originally present there.

 

 

 

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