PRACTICE PROBLEM - 1

Q. Calculate the DFT of the sequ ence { 0, 1, 1, 0}. Sketch its m agnitude & phase
and check the validity of your answer by calculating its IDFT.

Q. The band-limited periodic sequence (Figure 1)

x(t ) = 1 + cos (8πt ) + sin (4πt )
is sampled at Nyquist rate. Find the sam ple values over one funda mental period &
DFT of the sample values.

Figure 1

Q. Given a sequence x(n ) for 0 ≤ n ≤ 3 , where x (0 ) = 1 , x (1) = 2 , x (2 ) = 3 and

x (3) = 4 , we have com puted four DFT coefficients X (k ) for 0 ≤ k ≤ 3 as
X (0 ) = 10 , X (1) = −2 + j 2 , X (2 ) = −2 and X (3) = −2 − j 2 . If the sam pling rate is
10 Hz,
a. Determine the sam pling period, time i ndex, and sam pling tim e instant for a
digital sample x(3) in time domain.
b. Determine the frequency resolution and the highest frequency in the spectrum.

Q. Find the DFT of the following sequences.

a. x(n ) = δ (n ) b. x(n ) = δ (n − m ), 0 ≤ m ≤ N − 1
⎛ 2πqn ⎞
c. x(n ) = cos⎜ ⎟, 0 ≤ q ≤ N − 1
⎝ N ⎠
Q. A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz. A DFT is computed of a block of 1024 samples
of the data.
a. What is the time duration of the block?
b. What is the frequency resolution of DFT?
c. If only 512 sam ples were taken but the bl ock was zero padded to restore the size
to 1024, what would be the new answer to a. and b.