EE20C Signals and Systems

The University of the West Indies Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Last Review: August 2005

Course Instructor
Name: Mr Fasil Muddeen Email:fmuddeen@eng.uwi.tt Phone: 3151 Office: Rm326 Block 1 Office Hours: On door

Aims To provide an introduction to signals and systems. Objectives At the end of the course, the student should be able to: Describe and discuss the terminology used in signals and systems; Describe linear systems using Differential Equations and Difference Equations; Competently describe the properties and application of various standard signals, including the unit impulse, unit step and the sinusoid; Use the convolution approach to determine the response of linear systems; Understand the characteristics of continuous-time and discrete-time linear systems; Describe, compare and contrast the properties of the Fourier Transform, the Laplace Transform and the Z-Transform; State and provide a qualitative argument for the sampling theorem; Competently apply the various transforms to calculate the response of linear and discrete systems to the various standard signals; taking into account the effects of initial conditions, if any; Competently apply the various transforms to calculate the response of linear and discrete systems to arbitrary signals, taking into account the effects of initial conditions, if any; Represent linear systems using Block diagrams and Transfer Functions. Use these objects to analyse and manipulate linear systems; Discuss, in general terms, the significance of the study of signals and systems to certain problems in energy systems, communication systems, control systems, mechanical vibrations and, possibly, music. Course Overview What are Signals and Systems? Perhaps we can answer this by considering an everyday example a cell phone call to a friend. In essence, your voice is detected by your phones microphone, amplified, processed to improve clarity, transmitted by a high frequency radio transmitter, received by your friends cell phone, processed further and sent to that phones speaker. There are many more operations than these of course. Your voice can be considered as an input to your phone and as an output from your friends phone. We collectively call the inputs and outputs signals. We can lump all of the processes that take place in between the inputs and outputs into one unit called a system. Signals and systems examples abound. An automobile for example is a mixture of electrical, mechanical, chemical and biological systems, each with its own set of inputs and outputs. For another example, just try to imagine the number of signals and systems required to operate one of our process plants! Engineering is largely about designing systems which take some set of inputs and produce some set of desired (or sometimes undesired!) outputs. As we will see, signals may be electrical, chemical, mechanical, biological, optical, biological, financial and so on. EE20C is concerned with predicting and analyzing the response of systems when certain signals, mostly electrical for our purposes, are input to them.

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To analyze system behaviour, we will learn to model it in using diagrams, equations or both. For this, we will discuss a number of powerful techniques which will enable a relatively simple approach to be adopted. These techniques will also be used in your other engineering courses, for example telecommunications, control systems and signal processing. For this reason, it is very important that you thoroughly understand them. To enhance the learning experience, we will use MATLAB to explore some of the concepts discussed and to verify some of our predictions.

Evaluation This course is evaluated by one (1) in course exam and one (1) end-of-semester examination. Type of Evaluation End of Semester Exam: In Course Exam Other: TOTAL: Prerequisites None, though a comfortable familiarity with the following is strongly recommended: Complex numbers and trigonometry Differential and integral calculus Differential equations Sequences and series Weighting 3 credit Coursework None Assignments Five (5) problem sets will be distributed at various times in the programme. There will be scheduled tutorial sessions to discuss the problem set solutions. Resources Recommended Text: Signal and Linear System Analysis 2nd edition by Gordon E. Carlson; Wiley. Other References: 1) Signals and Systems by Oppenheim, Willsky and Nawab; Prentice Hall 2) Contemporary Communication Systems by Proakis; Brooks Hall 3) Modern Control Engineering by Ogata; Prentice Hall Handouts will also be made available when necessary. Description This will be a three (3) hour duration examination This will be a 75 min duration in-class examination Homework Assignments % of Grade 80 20 0 100

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Lecture Schedule EE20C Sep 05 to Dec 03, 2005 Lec. 1/2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hrs 3 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 Topic Introduction What are Signals and Systems Special signals Properties of signals. Linear Time-invariant (LTI) systems Convolution I The Laplace Transform System representation using the Laplace Transform Convolution II Comments and Text reference Introduction to continuous time (CT) and discrete time (DT) signals and systems. CT and DT signal manipulation. Introduction to sampling. [Text Ch 1, 2] The unit impulse, unit step, exponential and sinusoid. Properties of impulses. Multiplication of another signal by an impulse. [Text Ch 2] Signal Energy and Power. Periodicity. [Text Ch 3] Superposition, input/output relationships [Text Ch 4] The convolution sum for DT signals and systems and the convolution integral for CT signals and systems. Solving system equations. [Text Ch 4] The engineers approach to solving system equations. Properties of the Laplace Transform. Finding the inverse Laplace Transform. [Text Ch 7] Transfer Functions, poles and zeros. [Text Ch 7] Using the Laplace Transform to perform the convolution operation. Solving differential equations using the Laplace Transform. [Text Ch 7]

In Course Examination October 18th 2005

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 The Z-Transform System Stability Signal Components The Fourier Transform Convolution III Sampling Review

Solving linear difference equations. Properties of the Z-Transform. Finding the inverse Z- Transform. [Text Ch 14] Stability of CT and DT systems. [Text Ch 7, 14] Signal as a sum of sinusoids. The Fourier series, frequency response Aperiodic signals, properties of the Fourier Transform and applications. [Text Ch 5] Using the Fourier Transform to perform the convolution operation. [Text Ch 7] A more formal look at converting CT signals to DT signals. The Nyquist criterion. [Text Ch 9] Revision of key course concepts.

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