EE313 Linear Systems and Signals - Homework #2 Hints

• 2.1. This is an application of amplitude modulation.

  One could decompose the signal into a product of two simpler signals:

  x(t) = m(t) sin(2 pi f0 t)
  

  The message signal m(t) is a sequence of rectangular pulses. Each rectangular pulse is scaled by either +1 or -1. An amplitude of +1 could represent a bit of value '1', and an amplitude of -1 could represent a bit of value '0'. The message signal contains 1 bit each 1 ms, i.e. 1000 bits/s.

  The cosine term has fixed frequency f0, which is the inverse of the fundamental period of the cosine.

• 2.2.(b) The original function is a product of two cosine signals:

  g[n] = 10 cos(w1 n) cos(w2 n)
  

  where w1 = (2 pi / 20) rad/sample and w2 = (2 pi / 4) rad/sample. When two cosines are multiplied together, the resulting signal has frequencies of w2 + w1 and w2 - w1 due to following trigonometric formula (see page 886 in Appendix A):

  cos(x) cos(y) = 1/2 ( cos(x-y) + cos(x+y) )
  

  The new frequencies are

  w2 + w1 = (2 pi / 4) + (2 pi / 20) = 12 pi/20 = 2 pi (3/10)
  

  w2 - w1 = (2 pi / 4) - (2 pi / 20) = 8 pi/20 = 2 pi (1/5)
  

  The signal g[n] has a fundamental period of 10 samples. By plotting 20 samples of g[n], two periods should be visible.

  Here is sample Matlab code to plot g[n]:

  n = 1:20;
  g = 10*cos(2*pi*n/20).*cos(2*pi*n/4);
  stem(n, g);
  

  Please notice the pointwise multiplication operation ".*".

• 2.3. The second example on slide 3-12 has been updated to show the role of initial conditions on the time invariance system property.

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