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Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., Aquia Module, Room 102, Dr. Beale
Tuesday, May 9 is a Reading Day before 4:30 p.m. Therefore, there will be a review class at 10:30 a.m. in the normal classroom.
Graduate Teaching Assistants:
Requirements:
Text: Linear Dynamic Systems and Signals , Zoran Gajic,
Prentice Hall, 2003
| Homework Assignments |
Examples | ECE 220 Lab Experiments |
Bibliography | |
| Requirement | Weight |
|---|---|
| Tests (2) | 40% |
| Homework | 10% |
| Exam | 30% |
| Lab | 20% |
Latest revision on
Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:13 PM
Important Dates:
Test #1, Chapters 1, 2, 3 (half) -- Thursday, February 23
Test #2, Chapters 3 (half), 4 -- Thursday,
April 6
Final Exam, all material covered, but emphasizing Chapters 6, 7, and 8.
Thursday, May 11, 10:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m., Aquia Module, Room 102.
Last day to drop classes without Dean's permission -- Friday, Februray 24
No classes, recitations, or labs from March 12 to March 19 due to Spring Break !!
Course Outline
Chapter 1 -- Introduction to signals and systems, properties of signals and
systems, classifications of systems - 2 class periods.
Chapter 2 -- Common signals used in system analysis, operations on signals, classification of signals - 3 class periods.
Chapter 3 -- Periodic signals and their representation, trigonometric and
exponential Fourier series, line frequency spectra, aperiodic signals and the Fourier transform, steady-state
frequency response, Bode magnitude and phase plots - 7 class periods.
Chapter 4 -- Laplace transform derivation and properties, inverse Laplace transform, partial fraction expansion, system analysis with the Laplace transform, block diagrams - 5 class periods.
Chapter 6 -- The convolution integral, graphical convolution method - 3 class periods.
Chapter 7 -- Input/output analysis of signals and systems in the time
domain, solving differential equations, the impulse response, stability of
linear systems - 3 class periods.
Chapter 8 -- State space analysis of systems, the concept of state, the
form of state equations, writing state equations, solving state equations - 3 class periods.
Day
Date
Topic
Chapter
TuesdayJan. 24 Introduction to signals and systems
1
ThursdayJan. 26 Properties and classifications of systems
1
TuesdayJan. 31 Common input signals used in system analysis
2
ThursdayFeb. 2 Operations on signals
2
TuesdayFeb. 7 Classification of signals
2
ThursdayFeb. 9 Periodic signals and the Fourier Series
3
TuesdayFeb. 14 Fourier series, trigonometric and exponential forms
3
ThursdayFeb. 16 Fourier series and line frequency spectra
3
TuesdayFeb. 21 Fourier Transform derivation (material not on Test #1)
3
ThursdayFeb. 23Test #1, Chapters 1, 2, and 3 (half)
1, 2, 3
TuesdayFeb. 28 Fourier Transform properties
3
ThursdayMarch 2 Fourier Transform and steady-state frequency response
3
TuesdayMarch 7 Bode magnitude and phase plots
3
ThursdayMarch 9 Laplace Transform derived from the Fourier Transform
4
TuesdayMarch 14 Spring Break, No Class Today
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ThursdayMarch 16 Spring Break, No Class Today
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TuesdayMarch 21 Properties of the Laplace Transform
4
ThursdayMarch 23Inverse Laplace Transform and partial fraction expansion
4
TuesdayMarch 28 Partial fraction expansion and system analysis
4
ThursdayMarch 30 System analysis and simple block diagrams
4
TuesdayApril 4 The convolution integral (material not on Test #2)
6
ThursdayApril 6 Test #2, Chapters 3 (half) and 4
3, 4
TuesdayApril 11 Convolution for continuous-time systems, graphical convolution
6
ThursdayApril 13 Convolution examples
6
TuesdayApril 18 Time-domain analysis of systems, differential equations
7
ThursdayApril 20The system impulse response
7
TuesdayApril 25 System stability, Routh-Hurwitz array
7
ThursdayApril 27 State space description of systems, the concept of state
8
TuesdayMay 2 Writing state equations for systems
8
ThursdayMay 4 Solving the state equations
8
ThursdayMay 11 Final Exam, comprehensive, Chaps. 6, 7, 8 emphasized
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