Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Department of Electrical Engineering

Subject: Signals and Systems (EE21201 and EE21101)
Time: 2 hour Mid Semester Examination Autumn 2023-2024 Full Marks: 60
Instructions: Please check that this booklet has all 8 pages. Answer all questions. Write the detailed
solutions clearly and neatly using the space provided.

Q1a. Determine the fundamental period of the following discrete-time signal [3]
2π
x[n] = e(j 3
n ) + e(j 3π
4
n)
.

Q1b. Determine the energy of the following right-handed exponential signal [3]

x(t) = Ae−αt u(t), α > 0

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Q1c. Derive the average power of the following two-tone signal [3]

x(t) = A1 cos (2πF1 t + θ1 ) + A2 cos (2πF2 t + θ2 ).

Q1d. Find the unit-step response of the RC circuit with the following impulse response [3]
1
h(t) = e−t/RC u(t).
RC

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 (
3(−1)n , n≥0
Q1e. Find the average power of the following causal sequence x[n] = [3]
0 n ≤ 0.

Q2a. Check the invertibility, memory/memoryless, causality and stability properties for the following LTI
system [4]

h[n] = δ[n + 1] + δ[n − 2].

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Q2b. Find the impulse response of the following system where x(t) and y(t) are the input and output
respectively [6]

dy(t)
+ 5y(t) = x(t).
dt

Q2c. Suppose y = x ∗ h1 ∗ h2 , where h2 (t) = u(t) (the unit step). Find the impulse response of this
LTI system explicitly as a function of time, t, with x as the input and y as the output. [5]

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 d2 δ(t)
Q3a. Let x(t) = sin(2πF t) and y(t) = x(t) ∗ u(t) ∗ u(t) ∗ u(t) ∗ dt2
where u(t) is the unit step.
Find y(t). Is it possible to obtain x from y? Justify. [5]

Q3b. Find the Fourier series of the following periodic signal [3]

sin(2πF0 t) + ej2π5F0 t + cos(2π10F0 t).

Does the Fourier series converge? Justify.

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Q3c. Let x(t), y(t) be two periodic signals with the identical time period T and Fourier series coefficients
ak and bk respectively (k ∈ Z). Find the Fourier series coefficients of z(t) = x(t)y(t) in terms of
ak and bk . [5]

Q3d. Consider a periodic signal x(t) with the Fourier series coefficients ak , with k ∈ Z. Derive the Fourier
series coefficients of x(t − t0 ) in terms of ak . [2]

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Q4a. Consider an LTI
system with impulse response h[n] = an u[n], |a| < 1 and with the input signal
x[n] = cos 2πn
4
. The output of the system is y[n], is given below. Determine r and θ. [5]
 
2π
y[n] = r cos n−θ
4

Q4b. Determine the impulse response hI [n] of the inverse system of a discrete-time accumulator with the
infinitely long memory. [3]

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Q4c. Consider two signals x1 [n] = {· · · , 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, · · · } and x2 [n] = {· · · , 3, 3, −3, −2, −1, · · · } with
↑ ↑
time period N = 5. Determine the periodic convolution of these two signals as y[n] = x1 [n]⊗x2 [n]
for n = 1, 2. Determine the periodicity of y[n].
[2+2+1]

Q4d. Derive the Parseval’s theorem for a discrete-time periodic signal x[n] with time period N . [2]