Signals and Systems I (2016506)

Faculty of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Tutorial 1 - Signals (1)

conceptual questions

1. What is a signal?

2. Which is the difference between a CT and a DT signal?

3. What are the differencies between a CT and a DT sinusoid?

4. Are power and energy signals mutually exclusive? Justify your answer

exercises

1. Determine if each of the following signals is periodic or not. If it is, find the funda-
mental period
a) x [n] = sin [0.9n] + cos [0.1πn]
b) x (t) = 2 + cos (0.6t) + 2 sin (3.6t)
c) x [n] = 5 cos 3π π


23 n + 4
√ 
d) x (t) = sin 2t + sin (2t)
2π n 3π n
e) x [n] = e j 3 + ej 4

f) x (t) = 4e(5+2j)t
π


g) x (t) = 3 cos 2t + 10 u ( t )1

2. Find the even and odd parts of the following signals:

a) x (t) = t2 + 4t − 10
b) x (t) = e−t sin (3πt) u (t)

3. Engineering design problem

Consider a DT signal x [n] decomposed into its even and odd parts x [n] = xe [n] + xo [n].
Let xr [n] be the part of x [n] that occurs for n ≥ 0:
(
x [n] n≥0
xr [ n ] =
0 otherwise

Let xl [n] represent the part of x [n] that occurs for n < 0:
(
x [n] n<0
xl [n] =
0 otherwise
• Is it possible to determine x [n] (for all n) from xe [n] and xr [n]? If yes, explain a
procedure for doing so. If no, explain why not.
• Is it possible to determine x [n] (for all n) from xo [n] and xl [n]? If yes, explain a
procedure for doing so. If no, explain why not.
1 u (t) is the unit-step signal defined as (
1 t≥0
u (t) =
0 t<0
 4. Determine whether the following signals are energy or power signals (or if they are
not):
a) x (t) = 2 [u(t) − u(t − 4)] where u(t) corresponds to the unit step function
b) x (t) = 10 sin (2πt)
c) x (t) = 10e2t

advanced exercises

1. Determine whether the following signal is an energy or power signal (or if it is not):

sin t
x (t) = sinc (t) =
t
R∞
Hint: Si (∞) = 0
sin t
t dt = π
2 where Si is the sine integral function

2. A signal g (t) is defined in terms of another signal x (t) as

g (t) = Ax (t) + B A, B 6= 0

a) If x (t) is an energy signal with normalized energy equal to Ex , is g (t) an energy

signal or a power signal?
b) Determine either the normalized energy or the normalized average power of g (t)
as appropiate, in terms of Ex , A and B