A periodic waveform is one that repeats itself after a time
interval (the period).
The frequency is the inverse of the period.
For complex tones having an inverse period of , the
spectrum consists of harmonics of .
Figure 1:
Adding sinusoids at 5, 10, 15 Hz
in both time and frequency domain.
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``Music 175: Pitch''
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Department of Music, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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