NCUE EEdept

2012 Spring

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS HOMEWORK 1

[Please do your best to work out ALL these problems and you are encouraged to discuss your solutions with your classmates.] 1. A continuous-time linear system S with input x ( t ) and output y ( t ) yields the following input-output pairs:
x ( t ) = e j 2t y ( t ) = e j 3t , x ( t ) = e j 2t y ( t ) = e j 3t ,
S S

(a) If x1 ( t ) = cos ( 2t ) , determine the corresponding output y1 ( t ) for the system S. [ cos ( 3t ) ] (b) If = cos ( 2t 1) , determine the corresponding output y2 ( t ) for the x2 ( t ) system S. [ cos ( 3t 1) ] 2. Consider a discrete-time system with input x [ n ] and output y [ n ] . The relationship for this system= x [ n ] x [ n 2] . is y [ n ] (a) Is this system memoryless? [no] (b) Determine the output of the system when the input is A [ n ] , where A is any real or complex number. [0] (c) Is this system invertible? [no] 3. Consider the feedback system as shown in the following figure. Assume that
y = 0, n < 0 . [ n]

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(a) Sketch the output when x [ n ] = [ n ] . (b) Sketch the output when x [ n ] = u [ n ]

] 4. Consider an LTI system whose response to the signal x1 ( t ) is the signal y1 ( t ) . Determine and sketch the output response of the system, y2 ( t ) and y3 ( t ) , to the input x2 ( t ) and x3 ( t ) , respectively.

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5. Consider the system y ( t ) = T { x ( t )} , with input x ( t ) e j1t + e j2t where =

1 2 0 .
(a) If the system T is LTI, what is the most general form of the output y ( t ) ? [ y ( t ) c1e j1t + c2e j2t , c1 ,c2 ] = (b) If the system output y ( t ) = e j1t e j2t , then is it possible that the system is LTI? Prove your answer. [no] (c) If the system output y ( t ) = e j1t , then is it possible that the system is LTI? Prove your answer. [Yes] 1, 6. Consider a periodic signal x ( t ) = 2 , 0 t 1 with period T = 2 . The 1< t < 2

derivative of this signal is related to the impulse train g ( t ) = with period T = 2 . It can be shown that

k =

( t 2k )

dx ( t ) = A1 g ( t t1 ) + A2 g ( t t2 ) . dt

Determine the values A1 , t1 , A2 , t2 . [ A1 = =2 = t1 = 3, t1 0 , A 3, 1] 7. For each of the following continuous-time systems with input x ( t ) and output
y ( t ) , prove or disprove that it is i) linear; ii) time-invariant; iii) BIBO stable. iv)

causal; v) memoryless.

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2012 Spring

(a) y ( t ) = x ( t 2 ) + x ( 2 t ) (b) y ( t ) = cos ( 3t ) x ( t ) (c) y ( t ) =

d x (t ) dt

x [ n] , n 1 (d) y [ n ] = = 0 0, n x [ n ] , n 1
(e) y [ n ]= x [ n 2] 2 x [ n 8] (f) y [ n= x [ n ] ] (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) linear, stable memoryless, linear, causal, stable time-invariant, linear, causal linear, stable time-invariant, linear, causal, stable linear, stable

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