EEE 321 Signals and Systems

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General information

• Semester: Spring 2022-2023
• Course information
• Course description
• Instructor and assistants
• Textbook and references
• Ten Rules of Good (and Bad) Studying
• The Best Study Skills - Five Strategies You Need to Know and Use

Laboratories

• General
• Matlab resources
• Lab 0 – Optional exercises about Matlab with answers, no grading
• Tentative Lab Schedule:
• Graded Lab 1
• Section 1: 03.03.2023- Friday 13:30-15:30 Report deadline: 23:59-10.03.2023
• Section 2: 03.03.2023- Friday 15:30-17:30 Report deadline: 23:59-10.03.2023
• Quiz Solutions are provided with Lab2's quiz solutions in the same pdf.
• Grades
• Demo Lab I (Including Demo Labs 1,2 and 3) - No grading.
• Section 1: 17.03.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30
• Section 2: 17.03.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30
• Graded Lab 2
• Section 1: 24.03.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30 Report deadline: 03.04.2023,11:59 PM
• Section 2: 24.03.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30 Report deadline: 03.04.2023,11:59 PM
• Quiz Solutions of Lab 1 and Lab 2 (for both sections)
• Grades
• Graded Lab 3
• Zip File
• Section 1: 31.03.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30
Section 1: 14.04.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30 Report deadline: 19.04.2023,11:59 PM
• Section 2: 31.03.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30
Section 2: 14.04.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30 Report deadline: 19.04.2023,11:59 PM
• Quiz Solutions
• Report Solutions
• Grades
• Demo Lab II (Including Demo Labs 4 and 5) - No grading.
• Section 1: 28.04.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30
• Section 2: 28.04.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30
• Graded Lab 4
• Zip File
• Section 1: 05.05.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30 Report deadline: 23:59-11.05.2023
• Section 2: 05.05.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30 Report deadline: 23:59-11.05.2023
• Quiz Solutions
• Report Solutions
• Grades
• Graded Lab 5
• Section 1: 12.05.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30
• Section 2: 12.05.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30
• Quiz Solutions
• Grades
• Graded Lab 6
• Section 1: 26.05.2023-Friday 13:30-15:30
• Section 2: 26.05.2023-Friday 15:30-17:30
• Quiz Solutions
• Grades

Homework

• General
• Homework Quiz
• Questions
• Solutions

Solve the following problems from the textbook:

• Chapter 1: 1.21.d, 1.22.e, 1.27, 1.28, 1.30.a-f, 1.31. Solutions
• Chapter 2: 2.21.a,d, 2.22.a,b, 2.23, 2.28.f, 2.29.f, 2.32, 2.33, 2.38, 2.39. Solutions
• Chapter 3: 3.22.a, 3.23, 3.25, 3.28.b, 3.29.c, 3.30, 3.37. Solutions
• Chapter 4: 4.21.b,d,f, 4.22.a-c, 4.23, 4.24.a, 4.26.a, 4.28.a, 4.32.a,c, 4.33.a,b, 4.34. Solutions
• Chapter 5: 5.21.b,d, 5.22.b,f, 5.27.a, 5.29.b. Solutions
• Chapter 6: 6.21.b, 6.23.b, 6.26.a,b. Solutions
• Chapter 7: 7.21.a,b, 7.23, 7.26, 7.29 Solutions
• Chapter 10: 10.21.a,g, 10.22.d, 10.24, 10.29 Solutions
• Chapter 8: 8.22 Solutions

Recitations

• Recitation 1: 22.02.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 1 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 2: 01.03.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 2 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 3: 15.03.2023 Thur 19 -21. Recitation 3 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 4: 22.03.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 4 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 5: 29.03.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 5 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 6: 05.04.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 6 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 7: 10.04.2023 Mon 19 -21. Recitation 7 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 8: 03.05.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 8 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 9: 10.05.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 9 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 10: 17.05.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 10 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 11: 24.05.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 11 PDF file pdf file
• Recitation 12: 31.05.2023 Wed 19 -21. Recitation 12 PDF file pdf file

Grading

• Grading policy

• DEFINITIVE The following sections of the textbook will be covered in the MIDTERM:

  All of chapter 1

  All of chapter 2 except 2.5 Singularity Functions

  All of chapter 3

  All of chapter 4

• DEFINITIVE Everything below is included in the FINAL

• The following sections of the textbook will be covered in the course:

  All of chapter 1

  All of chapter 2 except 2.5 Singularity Functions

  All of chapter 3

  All of chapter 4

  All of chapter 5

  All of chapter 6 except:

  • 6.2.1 Linear and Nonlinear Phase

  • 6.2.2 Group Delay

  • 6.4 Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Aspects of Nonideal Filters

  • 6.6 First-Order and Second-Order Discrete-Time Systems

  • 6.7 Examples of Time- and Frequency-Domain Analysis of Systems

  All of chapter 7 except 7.5 Sampling of Discrete-Time Signals

  All of chapter 10 except 10.9 The Unilateral z-Transform

  All of chapter 8 except:

  • 8.2.2 Asynchronous demodulation

  • 8.4 Single-Sideband Sinusoidal Amplidute Modulation

  • 8.5 Amplitude Modulation with a Pulse-Train Carrier

  • 8.6 Pulse-Amplitude Modulation

  • 8.7 Sinusoidal Frequency Modulation

  • 8.8 Discrete-Time Modulation

  The exams will be open book. You should bring the textbook, or you will be at a serious disadvantage.
  You cannot share books with someone else. You can also bring any other books, notes etc. you want,
  provided they are on real paper. No electronic devices of any kind are allowed in the exam. No sharing of
  any materials, resources, stationary is permitted.

Miscellaneous

• Johns Hopkins University Signals Sytems Control Demonstrations: http://www.jhu.edu/~signals/
• Old Midterm with Solutions I
• Old Midterm with Solutions II
• Fourier transform family relationships: see page 5.2 of http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/course/451/l/pdf/c5.pdf
• The Ethical Fourier Transform: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-ethical-fourier-transform

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