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Week 2 - Classification and Properties of Signals
Week 2 - Classification and Properties of Signals
• In all applications, signals are directly related to physical quantities capturing power and energy in physical systems
• Example:
○ What would be the instantaneous power in a simple resistive circuit?
○ What would be the total energy expended over a particular time interval?
○ What would be the average power over this interval?
• Definition: If a continuous time signal x(t) has the property that there is a positive value of T for which
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Example 1
Example 2: Decompose the following signal x[n] into even and odd parts
• What are the units of t, phi and omega? (seconds, radians and radians/ sec)
• Euler's relation is a useful tool to write complex exponentials in terms of sinusoidal signals of same fundamental period and vice versa
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Discrete-Time case can be developed in a similar manner as continuous case
○ In order for the discrete-time exponential signal to be periodic with period N>0,
and in order for this relationship to hold, woN must be a multiple of 2pi. That is there must be an integer m such that
or equivalently
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