% mm2201.m N = 128; % choose a power of 2 for speed t = linspace(0,3,N); % time points for function evaluation f = 2*exp(-3*t); % evaluate the function and minimize aliasing: f(3) ~ 0 Ts = t(2) - t(1); % the sampling period Ws = 2*pi/Ts; % the sampling frequency in rad/sec F = fft(f); % compute the fft Fc=fftshift(F)*Ts; W=Ws*(-N/2:(N/2)-1)/N; Fa = 2./(3+j*W); % evaluate analytical Fourier transform plot(W,abs(Fa),W,abs(Fc),'.') % generate plot, 'o' mark fft results xlabel('Frequency, Rad/s') ylabel('|F(\omega)|') title('Figure 22.1: Fourier Transform Approximation')