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Plot periodic functions in Octave or Matlab with this script. It multiplies (modulates) the carrier and the msg signals, and plots the time domain and FFT reprisentation
% referenced gist https://gist.github.com/akiatoji/5649907
clear ; close all; clc
fundPeriod = pi/1000;
num_tsteps = 1000;
num_periods = 4;
tstep = num_periods * fundPeriod / num_tsteps;
t = 0:tstep:(num_periods * fundPeriod);
msg = 2*cos(400*t)+4*sin(500*t+pi/3);
carrier = cos(8000*pi*t);
modulatedMsg = msg.*carrier;
f_s = num_tsteps / (fundPeriod*num_periods);
n = 2**16;
f = f_s*(-n/2:n/2-1)/n;
subplot(2,2,3);
plot(t, msg);
title("message Time dom");
grid on;
subplot(2,2,4);
plot(t, carrier);
title("carrier Time dom");
grid on;
subplot(2,2,1);
plot(t,modulatedMsg);
title("modulated time domain");
grid on;
y = abs(fft(modulatedMsg,n));
y = fftshift(y);
subplot(2,2,2);
stem(f, y);
title("fast fourier");
grid on;
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Multiplying msg = 2cos(400t)+4sin(500t+pi/3); with carrier = cos(8000pit); will give us an AM modulated signal, and we see that it is a DSB-SC, as we have a double side band, and the amplitude at Fcarrier ( centre freq in the fft graph if you plotted it) is zero means that it is suppressed carrier, hence the SC.

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