Electronic – If the High Pass Filter is a differentiator, what’s the analogy for Low Pass Filter

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I have seen many times the analogy that the High Pass Filter (HPF) is a differentiator, something that explains some interesting facts, like that a non-negative signal might have negative components as in the case of differentiating a positive signal.

1) Is there an equivalent analogy for the LPF? How about the BPF?
1) Is there a mathematical formulation that prove these results?

Best Answer

The corollary is an integrator for a LPF. If you have a resistor feeding into a capacitor, then you get your input signal from the beginning of time integrated up to now.

Here's the math behind what I describe.

Band pass would be a LPF + a HPF so potentially an integrator feeding into a differentiator.