This is the first time I'm using the fft function and I'm trying to plot the frequency spectrum of a simple cosine function:

f = cos(2*pi*300*t)

The sampling rate is 220500. I'm plotting one second of the function f.

Here is my attempt:

time = 1;
freq = 220500;
t = 0 : 1/freq : 1 - 1/freq;
N = length(t);
df = freq/(N*time);

F = fftshift(fft(cos(2*pi*300*t))/N);
faxis = -N/2 / time : df : (N/2-1) / time;

plot(faxis, real(F));
grid on;
xlim([-500, 500]);

Why do I get odd results when I increase the frequency to 900Hz? These odd results can be fixed by increasing the x-axis limits from, say, 500Hz to 1000Hz. Also, is this the correct approach? I noticed many other people didn't use fftshift(X) (but I think they only did a single sided spectrum analysis).

Thank you.

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