ON-SCREEN SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS OF HARMONICS - A STUDENT-ORIENTED PACKAGE

The implementation of an interactive approach to the display and manip ulation of harmonics is described, The resulting microcomputer program , which was developed primarily for educational use within the electri cal engineering curriculum, allows both synthesis of waves from harmon ic (sinusoidal) components and analysis of specified periodic waveform s in terms of their harmonic content, Data may be interactively modifi ed, and cases may be stored for later retrieval, Some of the means emp loyed for making such a program user-friendly and student-oriented, as well as several examples of program use, are cited.