Sweep Signal

$\begin{figure}\begin{center}\BoxedEPSF{SweepSignal.epsf scaled 700}\end{center}\end{figure}$

The general function

$\begin{displaymath} y(a,b,c,d)=c\sin\left\{{{\pi\over b-a}\left[{\left({(b-a){x\over d}+a}\right)^2-a^2}\right]}\right\}. \end{displaymath}$

References

von Seggern, D. CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 160, 1993.