Final - Exam - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Final - Exam - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Final - Exam - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Problem 1 (1 pt)
Calculate the energy and power of the following signal:
1 + t −1 ≤ t < 0
x(t) = 1 − t 0 ≤ t < 1
0 otherwise
Problem 2 (2 pt)
Consider a house equipped with an intelligent heating unit that estimates the
indoor temperature from an outdoor thermometer and eventually activates the
radiators if necessary. Let us denote with y[n] the average indoor temperature
and x[n] the outdoor temperature, where n denotes the day. Due to the ther-
mal inertia, the indoor temperature is given not only by the present outdoor
temperature, but also by its previous values. Suppose that, for this particular
house, the following model is found to be accurate:
1. Find the response to the impulse h[n] of the system that describes y[n]
from x[n].
2. Express y[n] in terms of h[n] and x[n] and obtain the values for y[n]
given that x[n] = [0, 0, 10, 10, 10, 0, 0] ◦ C for n = 0, 1, . . . , 6. (Assume that
x[n] = 0 ◦ C also for n < 0).
3. Is this transformation causal? Justify.
Problem 3 (1 pt)
Determine the signal x[n] with this characterization in the frequency domain:
π
X(ejω ) = sin ω + + cos3 2ω
2
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Problem 4 (2.5 pt)
Consider a musical instrument such that its waveform can be expressed as
∞
X cos(kω0 t)
x(t) =
2k
k=1
Problem 5 (2 pts)
A real signal to be digitized, y(t), is composed by the addition of two, the desired
signal x(t) and a noise signal n(t), y(t) = x(t) + n(t). x(t) is a low-pass signal
with X(jω) = 0 for |ω| ≥ 1000π. n(t) is a wide-band noise with |N (jω)| = N0
for |ω| < 1010 π and N (jω) = 0 for |ω| > 1010 π.
The global aim is to obtain a discrete yd [n] = x[n] + nd [n], where x[n] ≡
n
x( 1000 ), and the energy of nd [n] should be the lowest possible. yd [n] is obtained
from y(t) by the processing scheme shown below
The continuous time low pass filter has unity gain and a cutoff frequency of
19000π. The system parameters to be determined are the sampling period T
employed in the ideal impulse-train sampling, the gain and cutoff frequency of
the discrete time low pass filter, and the decimation factor, N .
Determine the maximum sampling period T , and the rest of the parameters
to fulfill the global aim.
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Appendix: some useful formula
N
X 1 − rN
rn = r
n=1
1−r
cos(a + b) + cos(a − b)
cos(a) cos(b) =
2
1 + cos(2a)
cos2 (a) =
2