Apply a Filter Twice for Greatly Improved Performance

Figure 3. Impulse response of the filter of Figure 1 convolved with itself.

Say that you have implemented a low-pass FIR filter with the correct cut-off frequency and transition band, but that you are not quite happy with the suppression of frequencies in the stop band. A straightforward trick to put in your toolbox is that you can double the suppression by…

Submitted on 26 February 2018

ʻOumuamua

Figure 1. Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua [image: ESO/M. Kornmesser]

ʻOumuamua is the first ever interstellar body that was observed while it passed through our solar system, which makes it a really cool object. Hundreds of thousands of asteroids and comets have been observed, but all of them originated from within our own solar system. It was known that…

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Submitted on 23 December 2017

Jerk

What is jerk? Jerk is to acceleration as acceleration is to velocity. And, acceleration is to velocity as velocity is to position. So let’s start there. The instantaneous velocity at which you travel tells you…

Submitted on 20 November 2017