Chapter
1:
Signal Processing Fundamentals
11 January 2022
Welcome to the new term and
good luck!
On the first day we talked
about logistics and then looked at what will be covered in
the course. Then we covered
the first pages of the script. We started with the Fourier
series. For an applet on Fourier
series computations, click here.
Try out different signals and try to predict the magnitude and
phase spectra. To plot a
function, click here
or here.
13 January 2022
We started with the FT, looked at the Dirichlet conditions and
computed the FT of a rectangular pulse.We compared the FS with the
FT.
18 January 2022
We computed the FT of the exponentially decaying function. We
compute the FT of the cosine and the step functions. For the last
two functions
we had to introduce the delta function in more detail.
20 January 2022
We looked at the properties of the FT.
25 January 2022
We continued with Chapter 1.6. We looked at the delay line and then
at the low-pass filter.
27 January 2022
We then familiarized ourselves with the graphical computation of the
convolution function.
We are now on p. 31.
1 February 2022
We computed y(t)=r(t)*h(t) for the delay line. We introduced the
ideal low-pass filter and the physically realizable filter.
We learned about Butterworth, Bessel and Chebyshev filters.
3 February 2022
We looked at an example of a signal distortion in a filter. We
introduced the rise time of a filter and then showed via an applet
the output of a filter when the input is a step function. We learned
about pulse dispersion in a plasma.
8 February 2022
We made an educated guess as to the phase function of the transfer
function of a dispersive plasma. We talked about the sampling
theorem and then about energy, power and their spectral densities.
10 February 2022
We looked at the autocorrelation functions and the cross-correlation
functions and finished Chapter 1.