Test 1 -- Wednesday, September 24 -
Chapters 1 and 2 (Sections 2.1 - 2.4) and MATLAB
Test 2 -- Monday, October 27 -
Chapters 2 (2.5 - 2.6) and 3 and MATLAB
Final Exam -- Wednesday, December 10, 10:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. - comprehensive, emphasizing Chapters 4 and 5
Last day to drop classes without Dean's
permission -- Friday, September 26.
No classes or labs on Monday, October 13, due to Columbus Day Break!!
Lecture class will meet on Tuesday, October 14, at the
regular time and place. Any Monday lab sections will also meet on Tuesday
that week at the regular time and place.
Chapter 1 -- Introduction, overview and
outline of the course, signals and systems -- their
definitions and mathematical representations - 1 class
period.
MATLAB
-- How to input and store variables, mathematical operations, plotting
variables, input/output operations, writing scripts and functions - 4 class periods.
Chapter 2 -- Complex numbers and
complex arithmetic, sinusoidal signals, relationships between
the time and frequency domains, graphical representations of
signals - 6 class periods.
Chapter 3 -- Frequency spectrum of a
signal, graphical methods for representing the spectrum,
combinations of sinusoids, creating non-sinusoidal signals
from sinusoids, the Fourier series - 5 class periods.
Chapter 4 -- Converting continuous-time
signals to discrete-time, the sampling process, the effect of
sampling too slowly, fundamental limitations on sampling, the
frequency spectrum of a sampled signal, converting
discrete-time signals back to continuous-time, ideal
interpolation - 6 class periods.
Chapter 5 -- Systems that operate in
discrete time, the Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter, an
example of FIR filtering, building blocks for implementing
FIR filters, linear time-invariant (LTI) systems - 4 class
periods.
Labs -- All Lab sections will meet in
Sci & Tech II, Room 12. The Lab experiments are designed
and intended to complement the material presented in class in
order to strengthen the students' understanding of the
material. Students are expected to be well prepared when they
come to the Lab in order to make the most efficient use of
their time.
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