This section contains supplementary notes and a list of reading assignments by topic.
Supplementary Notes
Supplementary notes.
| CHAPTERS | FILES |
| Complete course notes | (PDF - 1.0MB) |
| Front matter (table of contents, preface) | (PDF) |
| Chapter 1: Difference equations | (PDF) |
| Chapter 2: Difference equations and modularity | (PDF) |
| Chapter 3: Block diagrams and operators: two new representations | (PDF) |
| Chapter 4: Modes | (PDF) |
| Chapter 5: Repeated roots | (PDF) |
| Chapter 6: The perfect (sine) wave | (PDF) |
| Chapter 7: Control | (PDF) |
| Chapter 8: Proportional and derivative control | (PDF) |
| Back matter (bibliography, index) | (PDF) |
Reading Assignments
Reading assignments are broken down by topic, and are from the following textbook unless otherwise noted:
Oppenheim, Alan, and Alan Willsky. Signals and Systems. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780138147570.
Reading assignments.
| TOPICS | READINGS |
| Discrete-time (DT) systems | Chapters 1-4 of supplementary notes |
| Continuous-time (CT) systems | Sections 1.0-1.5, 2.4-2.5 |
| Laplace transforms | Sections 9.1-9.10 |
| Z transforms | Sections 10.1-10.10 |
| Convolution | Sections 2.0-2.6 |
| Frequency response | Sections 3.10, 6.0-6.2.3, 6.5-6.5.3 |
| Feedback | Sections 11.0-11.2.3 |
| CT Fourier series | Sections 3.0-3.5.9 |
| CT Fourier transform | Sections 4.0-4.8 |
| DT Fourier series | Sections 3.6-3.12 |
| DT Fourier transform | Sections 5.0-5.9 |
| Sampling | Sections 7.0-7.6 |
| Modulation | Sections 8.0-8.9 |
