EEE 203 Signals and Systems
Spring 2016, MW 12:00-1:15 SCOB228

Instructor: Kostas Tsakalis, GWC 358, 965-1467,tsakalis
Office Hours: see schedule or by appt.
Textbook: Oppenheim and Willsky Signals and Systems, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 1997.
Course Outline:

  1. Intro, CT-DT Signals and Systems
  2. Elementary signals, Signal representation. Step, impulse signals and their properties
  3. Systems I. Elementary operations: Shift, Reflection, Scaling.
  4. System Properties: Linearity, Time Invariance, Causality, Memory, Stability
  5. Systems II. LTI systems and convolution integrals/sums (graphical methods, analytical methods), Properties of LTI systems (C,M,S)
  6. Response of LTI systems to inputs: complete response, steady-state response
  7. Key Application #1: LTI system realization by convolution sums
  8. Response  of LTI systems to exponentials, motivation of the Fourier Transform
  9. Fourier Series and approximation of signals, Fourier Transform: Basic Definitions, Properties and Usage, Frequency response of systems
  10. Key Application #2: Filtering
  11. Laplace Transform: Definition, Properties, Connection with F-transform
  12. DT case: DFT, Z-transform. Basic definition and properties, connection with CT transforms
  13. Transfer functions and filtering in DT
  14. Key Application #3: Sampling and Reconstruction
  15. Preview of more advanced topics: state-space and feedback

Grading: HW (10%), 5 Tests (50% average of best 4/5), Final (40%)
Absolute Grading Scale: A > 90 >  B > 75 > C > 60 > D > 50 > E
(Cut-off points may only decrease depending on the final grade distribution.)

ALL TESTS ARE CLOSED-BOOKS/NOTES.  THE LINKED TABLES OF FOURIER PROPERTIES ARE ALLOWED (Print your own copy).
Important Dates:
HW: see below
Tests: see below  (typically last 30min of class, 2 problems)  Grade distribution
Final Exam, WED May 4 9:50-11:40 (Notice time!!!)

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HW Assignments, Test Material, Handouts

Reading material: Class Notes #1 (.pdf)
   Basic definitions and examples on system properties.
   Linearity, Time Invariance, Causality, Memory, Stability.

Solved Problems:
Selection from  Ch.1-8
Other Solved Problems Ch.1-10
Old tests and homework

Last tests and homework (note: different numbering)

!!! Convolution Demos: Try out this JAVA-based program (http://www.eas.asu.edu/~midle/jdsp/)

ASSIGNMENTS   SEE LINK FOR HW PROBLEM STATEMENTS AND SOLUTIONS

Study: Chapters 1.1-1.4 and relevant solved problems, including 2.20
HW#1. Due Date 2/1

2/8.  Test 1 Material:  HW#1 SOLUTIONS
Transformations of the independent variable; e.g., given x(t), sketch x(2t-1), given y[n], sketch y[1-n].
Elementary functions; unit step, e.g., given a piece-wise constant x(t), express it in terms of unit steps;
unit delta, e.g., compute an integral involving delta(.)

Study: Chapters 1.5, 1.6,  2 and relevant solved problems
HW#2 Due date 2/15

2/22.  Test 2 Material:  HW#2 SOLUTIONS
System properties and applications (Linearity, time-invariance). Convolution

Study: Chapters 3, 4, 6 and relevant solved problems
HW#3. Due date 2/29

3/14.  Test 3 Material: HW#3 SOLUTIONS
Fourier Series: Signal approximation, response of LTI systems to periodic inputs
Fourier Transform: Basic Properties
Fourier Transform Applications: Filtering

Notice: New dates

Study: Chapter 7 and relevant solved problems
HW#4. Due date 3/21 3/28

3/28 4/4 Test 4 Material:  HW#4 SOLUTIONS
Sampling and reconstruction

Study: Chapter 9 and relevant solved problems 

HW#5. Due date 4/4 4/11

4/11 4/18 Test 5 Material:  HW#5 SOLUTIONS
Laplace transforms: Basic properties, System transfer functions 

Study: Chapters 5, 10 and relevant solved problems
HW#6. Due date 4/18 4/25

4/25 Test 6 Material: HW#6  Practice Test with Solutions
Z-transforms: Basic properties, System transfer functions

 

Other HW. Download the files: Problem description , Matlab file , Tada sound .
Study the problem described in the linked notes. Use the Matlab program to experiment with
different parameter values (frequency, filters, etc)
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EEE 203 FINAL EXAM Material:
System properties (L,TI,C,M,S), e.g., given a system determine if it is TI.
Output of a system to "composite" inputs from its output to elementary inputs.
Linear systems: General description; system properties in terms of the impulse response; convolution;
e.g., given a linear system determine if it is causal. Also given h and x find the convolution h*x.
Fourier Series expansions; expansion of periodic signals (impulse-trains, pulse-trains);
properties of FS (simplify the computation of FS using linearity, time shifts etc.);
filtering (computation of FS for the output);
Parseval's relation (finite FS approximation properties, compute filter/other parameters
to retain/reject a certain percentage of the input signal energy etc).
Fourier Transforms, Basic Properties. (Compute the Fourier Transform of "composite" signals
using shifting/convolution/... properties. Compute frequency-domain properties without
explicitly computing the transform itself).
Fourier Transforms, Applications:
Filtering (Use of the convolution property, ideal filters, basic notions of non-ideal filters.
Steady-state response to sinusoids. Transfer functions of systems described by ODEs
with constant coefficients.).
Sampling and Reconstruction (Frequency domain analysis of sampling systems).
Discrete time signals and systems. Fundamental properties, difference equations, transfer functions.
Steady-state response to asymptotically (steady-state) periodic inputs.