Find the average value of the unit pulse using NIntegrate and Unit Steps?

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As shown in the attached notebook, I form a unit pulse function (pt[]) with two time displaced unit steps (UnitStep[]). Then I integrate (NIntegrate[]) to find the average value of the unit pulse. However NIntegrate doesn’t seem to want to give me an answer. Any ideas why this might be so?

Thanks.

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Good Morning,

The function NIntegate was spelt incorrectly in your file. Note that you also set the limits of the integration the same. I’m pretty sure you intended {t, -tper/2.0, tper/2.0}. Also, I often find in these kinds of problems using the function HeavisideTheta works better than UnitStep.

Jesse Sheinwald

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Thank you.