School of Electrical Engineering,

Electronics Engineering, and

Computer Engineering

Laboratory Experiment Report Rubric

NAME OF STUDENT: DATE SUBMITTED:

Montinola, Rainiel M. October 15, 2020

EXPERIMENT TITLE EVALUATOR:

ENGR. ERNESTO M. VERGARA JR.

Fourier Series

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Criteria Score
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
A. Completeness The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report
and organization is untidy, did not follow is untidy, followed the is neat, followed the is neat, followed the is very neat, well
of the Experiment the given format, given format, some given format, some given format, no presented, followed
some parts are parts are missing, parts are missing, missing parts, and the given format,
Laboratory
missing, most most questions are not mostly questions are only a few questions organized, and the
Report questions are not answered. not answered. are not answered. required content is
answered. complete.
The result, gathered The result is correct, The result and The result and The result, gathered
data, and answers to however, gathered gathered data were gathered data were all data, and answers to
questions were all data, and answers to correct, however, correct, and most of questions are all
incorrect. If data questions were all answers to questions the answers to correct. If data sheets
B. Correctness of sheets are required in incorrect. If data were all incorrect. If questions are all are required in the
the gathered data the experiment, they sheets are required in data sheets are correct. If data sheets experiment, data
are not used. the experiment, data required in the are required in the sheets are fully
and answers to
sheets are used but experiment, data experiment, data consulted and correct
questions. wrong data are used sheets are consulted sheets are consulted data are used in the
in the computation or but some of the data but with few wrong tabulation or
tabulated. used are wrong. data used in the computation.
computation or
tabulation.

The interpretation of The interpretation of The interpretation of The interpretation of The interpretation of
data and discussion data and discussion data and discussion data and discussion data and discussion
C. Interpretation of
were not based on the were based on the were based on the were based on the were based on the
data and result and data result and data result and data result and data result and data
discussion gathered during the gathered during the gathered during the gathered during the gathered during the
experiment. experiment, but does experiment, and experiment, and experiment and are
not present clarity. somehow presents mostly presents clarity. presented very clearly.
clarity.
The conclusion was The conclusion was The conclusion was The conclusion was The conclusion was
not based on the based on the based on the based on the based on the
D. Conclusion
objectives and all objectives but not all objectives and few of objectives and most of objectives and all of
ideas are not coherent of the ideas are the ideas are coherent the ideas are coherent the ideas are coherent
or clear. coherent nor clear. but not too clear. and clear. and presented very
clearly.
The words used were The words used were The words used were The words used were The words used were
not appropriate, had somehow appropriate, appropriate, had good appropriate, had very appropriate, had
poor grammar, had had good grammar, grammar, had good good grammar, had excellent grammar,
E. Use of Language
bad sentence had good sentence sentence construction very good sentence had excellent
construction and ideas construction and not and few of the ideas construction and sentence construction
were not clearly all ideas were clearly were clearly almost all of the ideas and all of the ideas
expressed. expressed. expressed. were clearly were clearly
expressed. expressed.
The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report The laboratory report
F. Promptness was submitted two or was submitted one was submitted three to was submitted beyond was submitted on
more weeks late. week late. six days late the time assigned to time.
two days late.

AVERAGE: (A+B+C+D+E+F)/6
Exercise:

Part I.

Find the Fourier series of the following periodic functions using manual computations and using matlab
command:

0, −5 < 𝑡 < 0
1) 𝑔(𝑡) = 2 { ; 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 = 10
4, 0 < 𝑡 < 5

Syntax:

Answer:
Ans_Fs = (8*sin(pi*n)*cos((pi*n*x)/5))/(n*pi) + (8*sin((pi*n*x)/5)*sin(pi*n))/(n*pi) + 4
 2) 𝑔(𝑡) = 2𝑡 2 , −180° < 𝑡 < 180°; 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 = 360°

Syntax:

Answer:
Ans_FS =
(1911387046407553*pi^3*cos(2*t))/4503599627370496 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3*cos(3*t))/4503599627370496 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3*sin(2*t))/4503599627370496 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3*sin(3*t))/4503599627370496 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3)/9007199254740992 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3*cos(t))/4503599627370496 +
(1911387046407553*pi^3*sin(t))/4503599627370496
 0, −180° < 𝑡 < 0
3) ℎ(𝑡) = 2 { ; 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 = 360°
𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃, 0 < 𝑡 < 180°

Syntax:
 −𝑡, −4 < 𝑡 < 0
4) ℎ(𝑡) = 3 { ; 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 = 8
𝑡, 0 < 𝑡 < 4

Syntax:

Answer:
Ans_Fs = 6 - (16*cos((3*pi*t)/4))/(3*pi^2) - (48*cos((5*pi*t)/4))/(25*pi^2) -
(48*cos((7*pi*t)/4))/(49*pi^2) - (16*cos((9*pi*t)/4))/(27*pi^2) - (48*cos((pi*t)/4))/pi^2
Part II.

Create an m-file that will solve the Fourier series of a given periodic waveform. Use the given functions
in part 1 to test your created script file and compare the two results (part1 versus part 2).

Syntax:
Interpretation

In the experiment entitled “Fourier Series” the software MATLAB was used in order to solve and
execute the given equation. This experiment aims to help the students so that they may be able to (1)
define Fourier series (2) analyze the periodic wave function characteristics using Fourier series (3)
demonstrate the usage of MATLAB in computing Fourier series (4) to construct a script file for solving
Fourier series. This experiment is divided into two parts. For the first part of the experiment, the students
were asked to find the Fourier series of four different functions using the manual computations and
using MATLAB commands. Obviously, the manual computation of the equations took a long time since
its solution is quite long but upon using MATLAB commands the process of finding the Fourier Series
was easily done. At first the variable was defined by using the syms command and if the equation given
is a piecewise function you can enter the command piecewise(x) and if the function given is an interval
you can use the function int(-L.L). Since there is no command that directly perform the Fourier series,
the students performed a set of operations which is the same method as with computing the Fourier
series manually. And for the last part of the experiment the students learned to create an M-file that
contains the syntax for the Fourier series. This exercise helped the students to know how the algorithm
inside a calculator works, which allows them to obtain accurate answers in a short period of time.

Conclusion
After the experiment entitled “Fourier Series”, the students were able to create a code that was able to
solve the given equation they were able to concluded that It is easier for student to use MATLAB
commands in computing for the Fourier Series than manually solve for it because it takes a lot of time
because the solution is too long. MATLAB doesn’t have a command that directly solve for the Fourier
Series but the students can make use of the set of operations which is the same method as with computing
the Fourier series manually. The Fourier series is an expansion of a periodic function in terms of an
infinite sums of sines and cosines. The Fourier series make use of the orthogonality relationships of the
sine and cosine functions. The Fourier series can be used to make analysis of periodic functions easier,
by breaking periodic functions into a set of simple terms that is more known to the study of mathematics.
The graph of the original function resembles the graph of the Fourier series representation.