The document discusses Fourier series and their use in obtaining the frequency spectrum of periodic time-domain signals. Fourier series represent a periodic signal as the sum of sines and cosines with frequencies that are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency. The coefficients in the Fourier series representation are calculated by integrating the signal over one period and multiplying by basis functions. For a Fourier series to exist, the signal must satisfy the Dirichlet conditions of having a finite number of discontinuities and maxima/minima within each period, and being absolutely integrable over one period. Properties of continuous Fourier series include linearity, where the Fourier coefficients of a linear combination of signals is the sum of the individual coefficients, and time-shifting, where a