Impulse function in real life

The impulse function, also known as a Dirac delta function, helps you measure

a spike that occurs in one instant of time. Think of the spiked impulse function

(Dirac delta function) as one thats infinitely large in magnitude and infinitely

thin in time, having a total area of 1. Impulse forces occur for a short period of

time, and the impulse function allows you to measure them

. IDENTIFY IMPULSE FUNCTIONS IN THE DAY-TO-DAY

Some physical phenomena come very close to being modeled with impulse
functions. One example is lightning. Lightning has lots of energy and occurs in
a short amount of time. That fits the description of an impulse function.

An ideal impulse has an infinitely high amplitude (high energy) and is

infinitely thin in time. As you drive through a lightning storm, you may hear a
popping noise if youre tuned in to a radio weather station. This noise occurs
when the energy of the lightning interferes with the signal coming from the
radio weather station.

Another example of a real-world impulse function is a bomb. A powerful bomb

has lots of energy occurring in a short amount of time. Similarly, fireworks,
including cherry bombs, produce loud noises audio energy that occur as
a series of popping noises having short durations.
This mathematical description says that the impulse function occurs at only
one point in time; the function is zero elsewhere. The impulse here occurs at
the origin of time that is, when you decide to let t = 0 (not at the beginning
of the universe or anything like that).