EE342.01: LINEAR SYSTEMS II

Spring 1999 Schedule: MWF 10:00am-10:50am in Weir 110

Instructor: Kevin Wedeward, Office: Workman 221, Phone: (505)835-5708, email: wedeward@ee.nmt.edu, homepage: www.ee.nmt.edu/~wedeward/

Office Hours: MWRF 11:00am-12:00pm and by appointment

Grader: Mark Hanna

Course Objectives: Develop an understanding of

These topics of study will be the basis for later courses in control theory and digital signal processing.

Course Prerequisites:

Topic Prerequisites:

  1. Linear time-invariant systems.
  2. Continuous-time signals.
  3. Frequency-domain transforms.

Required Text: "Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using Matlab" by E.W. Kamen and B.S. Heck

Topics: The following chapters and topics in the text will be covered:

  1. Sect. 1.3-1.5: Fundamental Concepts of Discrete-Time Signals and Systems
  2. Sect. 2.3-2.4: Systems Defined by Difference Equations
  3. Sect. 3.1-3.2: Convolution
  4. Chpt. 6: Fourier Analysis of Discrete-Time Signals and Systems
  5. Chpt. 10: The z-Transform
  6. Chpt. 11: Digital Filters and Control

Reading Assignments:

  1. Sect. 1.3-1.5
  2. Sect. 2.3, 2.4
  3. Sect. 3.1, 3.2
  4. Sect. 6.1
  5. Sampling part of Sect. 5.4
  6. Sect. 6.2
  7. Sect. 6.3-6.6
  8. Sect. 10.1, 10.2
  9. Sect. 10.3-10.6

Homework: Homework will be assigned, collected, and graded on a weekly basis. You are encouraged to work with other students as long as the written work turned in is your own.

  1. PS1(in postscript) due BOC 01/29/99
  2. PS2 due BOC F 02/05/99: Problems 1.34, 1.35, 1.36a-e (don't check memory); turn in all plots clearly labeled - use subplot to save paper
  3. PS3(in postscript) due BOC 02/10/99
  4. PS4(in postscript) due BOC 02/17/99
  5. PS5(in postscript) due BOC 02/24/99
  6. PS6(as pdf) due BOC 03/08/99
  7. PS7(as pdf) due BOC 03/24/99
  8. PS8(as pdf) due BOC 03/29/99
  9. PS9(as html) due BOC 04/14/99; download bird.dat data file here
  10. PS10(as html) due BOC 04/23/99
  11. PS11 due BOC F 04/30/99: Problems 10.7, 10.9a,b,f, 10.10a,b,f - show your results as well as matlab's for n=0,1,2, 10.11a,b,c 10.13a,b, 10.17, 10.18
  12. PS12(as html) due BOC 05/07/99; download cowboy.dat data file here

Exams: Three exams during regular class periods and one final exam will be given.

Grading:

Example M-Files: