9/2	Wednesday.  Overview of the course.  Review of some mathematical
	background on complex numbers, exponentials, and sinusoids.

9/4	Continued and finished math review.
	Assigned HW #1 Handout DUE Thur. 9/10.
	Extra copies are outside my office.
	For this assignment, you may turn it in during class on Wed.
	or slide it under my office door before Friday morning.

9/7	Labor Day - No class.

9/9	Discussed power and energy signals pp. 20-21.
	Began discussion of transformations of the independent
	variable.  Scaling p. 23, Time shifting pp. 25-26.
	Assigned HW 1.4(a,c,f,h), 1.9,  DUE Thur. 9/17.

9/11	Continued discussion of transformations of the independent
        variable pp. 26-28.  Periodic signals pp. 18-19.
	Assigned HW 1.2(a,e,f,g), 1.12(b,c), 1.14(b,g), 1.18(e,j),
	1.21(b,c,h) DUE Thur. 9/17.


9/14	Finished periodic signals.  Even and odd signals pp. 16-17.
	Started unit impulse and unit step functions pp. 37-41.
	The discrete-time case is covered first and used to motivate
	the more mysterious continuous-time case.

9/16	Finished discrete-time unit step and impulse.  Covered continuous-
	time unit step.  Started continuous-time impulse.

9/18	Finished continuous-time impulse.  Discussed block
	diagrams pp. 42-43.  Began discussion of systems with memory
	and noncausal systems pp. 46-48.
	Assigned HW 1.24, 1.27 DUE Thur. 9/24.

9/21	Causal systems p. 48.  Stable systems pp. 44-46.

9/23	Time invariance pp. 50-52.  Linearity pp. 52-54.

9/25	Finshed linearity.  Began Chapter 2 LTI SYSTEMS, pp. 70-77.
	Assigned HW 1.28(a,b,c,g,k), 1.39, 1.41, 2.2(a,c) DUE Thur. 10/1.

9/28	Graphical convolution pp. 77-84 for discrete-time.

9/30	More discrete-time graphical convolution examples.
	Continuous-time convolution (pp. 84-94) examples.

10/2	More on continuous-time convolution.  Section 2.3: parallel,
	cascade connections pp. 94-98.
	Assigned HW 2.2(h,j), 2.3(b,e), 2.5(b,c,i,o), 2.6(b,j),
	2.9(a), 2.10(a) DUE Thur. 10/8.

10/5	Memoryless, causal, stable systems and how these properties are
	reflected in the impulse response, pp. 94-100.  Step response
	pp. 102-103.  
10/7	Finish step response. Sinusoidal steady state response, pp. 103-108.

10/9	Finished discussion of frequency response and worked two examples.
	Section 2.4: Linear, constant coefficient differential equations,
	pp. 108-121.  Covered the natural response.

10/12	Complete response; forced response.  Examples.
	Distributed handout of old exams.  Extra copies are outside
	my office.

10/14	Go over old exams and HW problems.

10/15	Thursday: NIGHT Exam 1, 5:30-6:30 pm in 1800 Engr. Hall.
	Main Topics.

10/16	Review Exam 1.
	Assigned HW 2.14(b,g), 2.15(a,f), 2.17(b), 2.19(b), 2.21(b)
        DUE Thur. 10/22.

10/19   Review solving differential eq.  Also, stability of systems
	governed by linear, constant coefficient, differential eqs.,
	pp. 119-121.

10/21	Began discussion of Fourier analysis of signals, pp. 155-156,
	DTFS: pp. 162-163.

10/23	Continued DTFS, pp. 164-171.
	Assigned HW 3.1(b,d,f); 3.2(b,c,d) DUE Thur. 10/29.

10/26	Started FS: pp. 171-181.
	Assigned HW 3.3(a,c,e); 3.4(a,c,e) DUE Thur. 11/5.

10/28	Finished FS, worked examples.  Started DTFT: pp. 182-190.

10/30	DTFT, FT.
	Assigned 3.5(b,c,d,f); 3.6(a,c,d); 3.7(a,e,f); 3.8(a,b,d);
	3.9(a,c,e) DUE Thur. 11/5.

11/2	Worked several FT examples.  Interaction of Fourier series/transforms
	applied to switched DC voltage supply.

11/4	Section 3.6: Properties of Fourier series & transforms in
	discrete and continuous time.

11/6	Section 3.6: Symmetry, time shifts, scaling.
	Assigned 3.10(a,c); 3.11(a,c); 3.12(a,b); 3.13(a,c,d); 3.14(a,c,d);
	3.15(b,d); 3.16(b,c); 3.17(a,b,e), 3.18(a,c) DUE Wed. 11/18.

11/9	Finished scaling, pp. 207-211.  Differentiation, pp. 211-214.

11/11	Integration, transform of sgn(t), u(t), pp. 215-218.  Transform of
	convolution, product(modulation), pp. 218-229.

11/13	More product examples.  Transform of x(t)cos(w_0 t).
	Application to double-sideband suppressed carrier transmission.

11/16	Parseval relationships, pp. 229-231.
	Duality pp. 231-235.  Time-bandwidth product, pp. 235-237.

11/18	Sections 4.1-4.2: Frequency response, dB, differential eq.,
	pp. 256-264.  SKIP State-variable stuff!!!
	Assigned 3.19(a,c,e); 3.21(a,d); 3.22(a); 3.23(a,b,e);
	4.2(a,d); 4.3(a,c) DUE Wed. 11/25.

11/20	Section 4.3: FT Reps. of periodic signals, pp. 266-271.
	Section 4.4: Convolution and modulation with mixed signal classes,
	pp. 272-279.  Application to bandpass filter and to FM spectrum.

11/23	Class canceled.

11/25	Talked about 2-d Fourier transforms and tomography.
	Started talking about sampling.
	Recommended problems before the exam:
	 4.9(a,d); 4.11(c); 4.12; 4.13(a,b,c); 4.16(a,d)

11/27	No Class - Thanksgiving Recess 11/26-11/29

11/30	Sampling, pp. 283-287, 291-301.

12/2	Review for exam.

12/3	Thursday: NIGHT Exam 2, 5:30-6:30 pm in 1800 Engr. Hall.

12/4	Finished discussion of sampling, oversampling, and aliasing.

12/7	Laplace transforms: Introduction, application to differential eq.s.

12/9	Return and go over Exam 2.
	More on Laplace transforms:  Region of convergence (ROC)
	and pole-zero plots (Section 6.2), Unilateral Laplace transforms
	(Section 6.3).
	Suggested problems: 4.18(a); 4.22; 6.1(a); 6.4(a,b,f);
	6.5(a,b); 6.12(a,b); 6.13(a,b).
	
12/11	More on Laplace transforms.

12/14	Teaching evaluations, review questions.

12/20	Sunday, Final Exam at 7:45 am in 125 Biochemistry
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