Time Cycle

S

Stephen

Antonio said:
Morning all

Need to calculate time cycles, can anyone help??

Tks in advance

In Excel, dates are stored as number of days since 31st Dec 1899 (that is,
one day =1). So, for example, today (3rd Dec 2007) is 39419. Time is just
the fractional part of these numbers. 6:00am is quarter of the way through
the day, so 6:00am this morning is 39419.25. Formatting just displays these
numbers in a conventional date/time format. But once you understand the
underlying numbers, you can calculate with them as you wish. If you still
need help, please explain what you mean by "time cycles".
 
A

Antonio

Hi Pete

Have two columns

1st date and 2nd temp. Need to find the temp cycles over time

Tks
 
B

Bob Phillips

That adds nothing to your first post.

Give a worked through example and then show what your starting data will
look like.

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HTH

Bob


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H

Herbert Seidenberg

Assume your data looks like the one posted at
http://tinyurl.com/3c8o9t
Fourier Analysis will be used to find the period of the waveform.
Cut the 2 columns to 128 row.
Only lengths of 64, 128, 256 etc are allowed.
Name the 2 columns MyTime and MyVal.
Shown here are only 4 of 128 data rows:

MyTime MyVal FFT MyPower MyPowCu MyFreq
1.00E-11 0.19
-21.7
1.00E-07 0.00 -30.5-6.5i 972.9 972.9
9.922E-08
2.00E-07 -0.19 -38.2-3.1i 1473.3 2446.2
1.984E-07
3.00E-07 -1.24 -42.5+3.5i 1820.6 4266.9 2.977E-07

Half_Area
226338
Period
1.091E-06

Tools > Data Analysis > Fourier Analysis
Input Range: MyVal
Output Range: FFT
If the above matrix starts at A1, enter at D3, E3 and F3 respectively
=IMABS(C3)^2
=MyPower+E2
=(ROW()-2)*(MAX(MyTime)-MIN(MyTime))/COUNTA(MyTime)
Copy them down and name the ranges as shown in the above table.
Half_Area and Period have these formulas
=INDEX(MyPowCu,COUNTA(MyVal)/2+1,)/2
=LOOKUP(Half_Area,MyPowCu,MyFreq)
 
B

Bob Phillips

Oh no, I mean lay it out in text form here.

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HTH

Bob


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