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1 online resource (xvi, 366 pages) : illustrations |
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--For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Contents |
About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Signals and Systems; Chapter 1: Introducing Signals and Systems; Applying Mathematics; Getting Mixed Signals ... and Systems; Classifying Signals; Signals and Systems in Other Domains; Testing Product Concepts with Behavioral Level Modeling; Exploring Familiar Signals and Systems. |
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Using Computer Tools for Modeling and SimulationSeeing the Big Picture; Chapter 2: Brushing Up on Math; Revealing Unknowns with Algebra; Making Nice Signal Models with Trig Functions; Manipulating Numbers: Essential Complex Arithmetic; Catching Up with Calculus; Finding Polynomial Roots; Chapter 3: Continuous-Time Signals and Systems; Considering Signal Types; Getting Hip to Signal Classifications; Transforming Simple Signals; Checking Out System Properties; Choosing Linear and Time-Invariant Systems; Chapter 4: Discrete-Time Signals and Systems; Exploring Signal Types. |
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Surveying Signal Classifications in the Discrete-Time WorldComputer Processing: Capturing Real Signals in Discrete-Time; Classifying Systems in Discrete-Time; Part II: Exploring the Time Domain; Chapter 5: Continuous-Time LTI Systems and the Convolution Integral; Establishing a General Input/Output Relationship; Working with the Convolution Integral; Stepping Out and More; Chapter 6: Discrete-Time LTI Systems and the Convolution Sum; Specializing the Input/Output Relationship; Simplifying with Convolution Sum Properties and Techniques; Working with the Convolution Sum. |
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Chapter 7: LTI System Differential and Difference Equations in the Time DomainGetting Differential; Checking out the Difference Equations; Part III: Picking Up the Frequency Domain; Chapter 8: Line Spectra and Fourier Series of Periodic Continuous-Time Signals; Sinusoids in the Frequency Domain; General Periodic Signals: The Fourier Series Representation; Chapter 9: The Fourier Transform for Continuous-Time Signals and Systems; Tapping into the Frequency Domain for Aperiodic Energy Signals; Getting Around the Rules with Fourier Transforms in the Limit; LTI Systems in the Frequency Domain. |
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Chapter 10: Sampling TheorySeeing the Need for Sampling Theory; Periodic Sampling of a Signal: The ADC; Analyzing the Impact of Quantization Errors in the ADC; Analyzing Signals in the Frequency Domain; Applying the Low-Pass Sampling Theorem; Reconstructing a Bandlimited Signal from Its Samples: The DAC; Chapter 11: The Discrete-Time Fourier Transform for Discrete-Time Signals; Getting to Know DTFT; Working with Special Signals; LTI Systems in the Frequency Domain; Taking Advantage of the Convolution Theorem; Chapter 12: The Discrete Fourier Transform and Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms. |
| Summary |
Getting mixed signals in your signals and systems course? The concepts covered in a typical signals and systems course are often considered by engineering students to be some of the most difficult to master. Thankfully, Signals & Systems For Dummies is your intuitive guide to this tricky course, walking you step-by-step through some of the more complex theories and mathematical formulas in a way that is easy to understand. From Laplace Transforms to Fourier Analyses, Signals & Systems For Dummies explains in plain English the difficult concepts that can trip you up. |
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Signal processing.
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System analysis.
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Systems Analysis |
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Traitement du signal. |
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Analyse de systèmes. |
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systems analysis. |
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Signal processing |
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System analysis |
| Added Title |
Signals and systems for dummies |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wickert, Mark. Signals and Systems For Dummies. Hoboken : Wiley, ©2013 9781118475812 |
| ISBN |
9781118475836 (ebook) |
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1118475836 (ebook) |
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9781118475669 |
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1118475666 |
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111847581X |
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9781118475812 |
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EB00057812 Recorded Books |
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