Course Notes - College of Engineering

1 ECE 301: Signals and SystemsCourse NotesProf. Shreyas SundaramSchool of Electrical and Computer EngineeringPurdue UniversityiiAcknowledgmentsThese Notes very closely follow the book:Signals and Systems, 2nd edition, byAlan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky with S. Hamid Nawab. Parts of the notesare also drawn from Linear Systems and Signalsby B. P. Lathi A Course in Digital Signal Processingby Boaz Porat Calculus for Engineersby Donald TrimI claim credit for all typos and mistakes in the LATEX template forThe Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2 by T.

2 Oetikeret al. was used to typeset portions of these SundaramPurdue UniversityivContents1 Signals and Systems .. Outline of This Course ..42 Properties of Signals and Signal Energy and power .. Transformations of Signals .. Periodic, Even and Odd Signals .. Exponential and Sinusoidal Signals .. Complex Exponential Signals .. Complex Exponential Signals .. Impulse and Step Functions .. Properties of Systems .. of Systems .. of Systems .. 153 Analysis of Linear Time-Invariant Discrete-Time LTI Systems.

3 Continuous-Time LTI Systems .. Properties of Linear Time-Invariant Systems .. Commutative Property .. Distributive Property .. Associative Property .. LTI Systems .. of LTI Systems .. of LTI Systems .. of LTI Systems .. Response of LTI Systems .. Differential and Difference Equation Models for Causal LTI Systems Constant-Coefficient Differential Equations .. Constant Coefficient Difference Equations .. Block Diagram Representations of Linear Differential and Differ-ence Equations.

4 354 Fourier Series Representation of Periodic Applying Complex Exponentials to LTI Systems .. Fourier Series Representation of Continuous-Time Periodic Signals Calculating the Fourier Series Coefficients .. Vector Analogy for the Fourier Series .. Properties of Continuous-Time Fourier Series .. Shifting .. Reversal .. Scaling .. s Theorem .. Fourier Series for Discrete-Time Periodic Signals .. the Discrete-Time Fourier Series Coefficients .. of the Discrete-Time Fourier Series.

5 555 The Continuous-Time Fourier The Fourier Transform .. of Fourier Transform .. Fourier Transform of Periodic Signals .. Properties of the Continuous-Time Fourier Transform .. and Frequency Scaling .. s Theorem .. 726 The Discrete-Time Fourier The Discrete-Time Fourier Transform .. The Fourier Transform of Discrete-Time Periodic Signals .. Properties of the Discrete-Time Fourier Transform .. and Frequency Shifting .. Order Differences.

6 Expansion .. in Frequency .. s Theorem .. Convolution .. Multiplication .. 837 The Sampling Theorem .. Reconstruction of a Signal From Its Samples .. Hold .. Hold .. Undersampling and Aliasing .. Discrete-Time Processing of Continuous-Time Signals .. 91viiiCONTENTS8 The Laplace The Laplace Transform .. The Region of Convergence .. The Inverse Laplace Transform .. Fraction Expansion .. Some Properties of the Laplace Transform.

7 Finding the Ouput of an LTI system via Laplace Transforms .. Finding the Impulse Response of a Differential Equation via LaplaceTransforms .. 106 Chapter Signals and SystemsLoosely speaking,signalsrepresent information or data about some phenomenonof interest. This is a very broad definition, and accordingly, signals can be foundin every aspect of the world around the purposes of this Course , asystemis an abstract object that acceptsinputsignalsand producesoutput signalsin : An abstract representation of a of systems and associated signals: Electrical circuits: voltages, currents, temperature.

8 Mechanical systems: speeds, displacement, pressure, temperature, vol-ume, .. Chemical and biological systems: concentrations of cells and reactants,neuronal activity, cardiac signals, .. Environmental systems: chemical composition of atmosphere, wind pat-terns, surface and atmospheric temperatures, pollution levels, .. Economic systems: stock prices, unemployment rate, tax rate, interestrate, GDP, .. Social systems: opinions, gossip, online sentiment, political polls,.. Audio/visual systems: music, speech recordings, images, video.

9 2 Introduction Computer systems: Internet traffic, user input, ..From a mathematical perspective, signals can be regarded as functions of oneor more independent variables. For example, the voltage across a capacitor inan electrical circuit is a function of time. A static monochromatic image canbe viewed as a function of two variables: anx-coordinate and ay-coordinate,where the value of the function indicates the brightness of the pixel at that(x,y) coordinate. A video is a sequence of images, and thus can be viewedas a function of three variables: anx-coordinate, ay-coordinate and a time-instant.

10 Chemical concentrations in the earth s atmosphere can also be viewedas functions of space and this Course , we will primarily be focusing on signals that are functions of asingle independent variable (typically taken to be time). Based on the examplesabove, we see that this class of signals can be further decomposed into twosubclasses: Acontinuous-time signalis a function of the formf(t), wheretrangesover all real numbers ( ,t R). Adiscrete-time signalis a function of the formf[n], wherentakes on onlya discrete set of values ( ,n Z).