‹ MAE 143 A · Maurício de Oliveira

MAE 143 A - Signals and Systems - Fall 2020

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Instructor

• Mauricio de Oliveira, first name at ucsd dot edu

Class Times

Lectures

• TuTh 08:00-09:20,
  REMOTE

Discussion Session

• Wednesday 10:00-10:50,
  REMOTE
  

Teaching Assistant

• Yilong (Dylan) Chen, yic 013 at ucsd dot edu

Office Hours

REMOTE

• Thursday 10:00 - 11:00 (Mauricio)
• Monday 09:00 - 10:00 (Dylan)

You can make an appointment with me or the TA by email.

Text Book

Fundamentals of Signals and Systems by Benoit Boulet
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Course Topics

• Dynamic systems and their signals, Continuous-time signals and discrete-time sampling
• Fundamental signals in continuous- and discrete-time, Elementary signal operations, Properties of deterministic and stochastic signals
• Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems, Convolution Sum and Integral and Basic properties and connections of LTI systems
• LTI systems: differential & difference equations, Causality & Stability, Introduction to State Space Modeling
• LTI systems: Sinusoidal inputs with Euler Formula, Fourier Series for Periodic Signals, Spectrum of a signal and Parseval's Theorem
• Continuous-time Fourier transform, Frequency Analysis and Bode diagram of continuous-time systems
• Discrete-Time and Discrete Fourier Transform, Bode diagram and Frequency Analysis of discrete-time systems & Discrete Fourier Transform with Matlab
• Laplace transform for continuous-time signals, properties of Laplace transform and transfer function, Laplace transform for solving differential equations and Final/initial value theorems
• Transfer function & resonant systems, Block diagrams & feedback systems, Z-transform & transfer function for discrete-time systems
• Concept of Filtering: continuous-time circuits & digital signal processing, Application in sound processing

You might want to check out the website for MAE 143A Fall 2019 Winter 2019 Winter 2018 , Winter 2011 to have an idea of what the midterms and final will look like and alternative resources.

Grades

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Formula

GRADE = 0.25 * HOMEWORK + 0.25 * MIDTERM1 + 0.25 * MIDTERM2 + 0.25 * FINAL EXAM

Exams

• Midterm #1: October, 22nd
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• Midterm #2: November, 19th
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• Final exam: Tuesday, December, 15th, 08:00AM - 10:59AM
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  Final grade distribution: histogram, percentile

Homework

• Homework, instructions and solutions will be posted on canvas.
• Homework will be posted every other week, due the following week.
• This class uses an all-electronic homework submission and grading process.
• You can type and scan your homework for submission.
• No paper submissions will be accepted.
• Turn in every Friday at 23:59, every other week.
• No late homework submissions will be accepted
• Please turn in a readable and organized homework. This is a big class!

Homework grading policy

• No points will be deducted by mistakes you make on homework.
• You will be assigned total points for every question you attempt to solve.
• A valid attempt has to show enough effort to convince the graders that you spent time on the question!
• Just repeating the problem statement IS NOT an example of a valid attempt.
• You get no points on a question if you did not attempt the question.
• Questions will be graded and feedback will be provided by the graders in case you make mistakes.

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