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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Electrical Engineering Department
EE370: Communications Engineering I (102) -1 point for no number
Quiz 5: Sampling
Name: KEY Ver.2

The following figure shows two sinusoidal signals. The one of them is the original signal and the other
one is the recovered signal after sampling
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-1.5 Time in sec

0 5 10 20 25 30

Write a time domain expression to represent the two signals

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The original signal =sin �2𝜋 �𝑇� 𝑡 + 0� = sin �2𝜋 �6� 𝑡�, 1/6=0.1667 (approximation is accepted)

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Signal recovered after sampling =sin �2𝜋 �15� 𝑡�, 1/15=0.0667 (approximation is accepted)

Why the recovered signal does not equal to the original signal? Because the signal is sampled below
Nyquist rate

What do we call this phenomena? Aliasing

Sketch the spectrum of the SAMPLED signal . To sketch the spectrum we need to find the sampling
frequency. From the plot there are about 7 samples in 30 seconds => fs=7/30=0.233. Alternatively, the
folding frequency is the average between the original and recovered frequency. fs/2=(fL+fH)/2=>
fs=fH+fL=1/6+1/15=(5+2)/30=7/30=0.233.

7/60 7/60 7/60 7/60 7/60 7/60

………. ……….
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-1/6 -1/6+7/30 1/6 1/6+7/30
-12/30 =-1/151/15 =12/30

Good Luck Dr. Ali Muqaibel