Department of Electrical Engineering

COM 411 – Communications 1

Lem set
Fall 2020

Problem set #0
Due Date: TBD

1. For the signal 𝑔(𝑡) illustrated in

Fig. 1, sketch:
a. 𝑔(𝑡 − 4)
b. 𝑔(𝑡/1.5)
c. 𝑔(−𝑡)
d. 𝑔(2𝑡 − 4) Figure 1
e. 𝑔(2 − 𝑡)
2𝑡−1
f. 𝑔 ( 3 )

2. Sketch the following functions: (a) ∏(𝑡/2); (b) ∆(3𝜔/100); (c) ∏(𝑡 − 10/8); (d) sinc(𝜋𝜔/5);
(e) sinc [(𝜔 − 10𝜋)/5] ; (f) sinc(𝑡/5) . ∏(𝑡/10𝜋 ).

3. a. Find Ex and Ey, the energies of x(t) and y(t) shown in Fig. 2a. Sketch x(t) + y(t) and x(t) -
y(t) and show that the energies of either of these two signals equal to Ex + Ey.

b. Repeat for Fig. 2b.

c. Repeat for Fig. 2c.

Figure 2
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4. Find the power of the periodic signal g(t) shown in Fig. 3. Find also the powers and the rms
values of:
a. −𝑔(𝑡)
b. 2𝑔(𝑡)
c. 𝑐 𝑔(𝑡)

Figure 3

5. Determine the power and the rms value for each of the following signals:
a. 10 cos(100𝑡 + 𝜋/3)
b. 10 cos(100𝑡 + 𝜋/3) + 16 sin(150𝑡 + 𝜋/5)
c. (10 + 2 sin(3𝑡)) 𝑐𝑜𝑠 10𝑡
d. 10 cos(5𝑡) cos(10𝑡)
e. 10 sin(5𝑡) cos(10𝑡)
f. 𝑒 𝑗𝛼𝑡 cos (𝜔0 𝑡)

6. Find the compact trigonometric Fourier series for the signal shown in Fig. 4 over the interval
0 ≤ 𝑡 ≤ 𝜋.

Figure 4

7. Find the exponential Fourier series and sketch the corresponding spectra for the impulse
train 𝛿𝑇0 (𝑡) shown in Fig. 5.

Figure 5
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8. Show that the two signals in parts (a) and (b) of Fig. 6 are totally different in the time domain
despite their similarity in frequency domain.

Figure 6

9. Find the Fourier transforms of the signals shown in Fig. 7.

Figure 7

10. Prove the following results:

𝐹 1
𝑔(𝑡) sin 2𝜋𝑓0 𝑡 ⇔ [𝐺(𝑓 − 𝑓0 ) − 𝐺(𝑓 + 𝑓0 )]
2𝑗
1 𝐹
[𝑔(𝑡 + 𝑇) − 𝑔(𝑡 − 𝑇)] ⇔ 𝐺(𝑓) sin 2𝜋𝑓𝑇
2𝑗

11. Signals 𝑔1 (𝑡) = 104 Π(104 𝑡) and 𝑔2 (𝑡) = 𝛿(𝑡) are applied at the inputs of the ideal low-pass
filters 𝐻1 (𝑓) = Π(𝑓/20000) and 𝐻2 (𝑓) = Π(𝑓/10000) as shown in figure.
a. Sketch 𝐺1 (𝑓) and𝐺2 (𝑓).
b. Sketch 𝐻1 (𝑓) and 𝐻2 (𝑓).
c. Sketch 𝑌1 (𝑓) and 𝑌2 (𝑓).
d. Find the bandwidths
of 𝑦1 (𝑡), 𝑦2 (𝑡) and 𝑦(𝑡).

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12. The Fourier transform of the triangular pulse 𝑔(𝑡) in Fig 8.a is given as
1
𝐺(𝑓) = (𝑒 𝑖2𝜋𝑓 − 𝑖2𝜋𝑓𝑒 𝑖2𝜋𝑓 − 1)
(2𝜋𝑓)2
Use this information, the time-shifting property and time scaling property to find the Fourier
transform of the signals shown in Fig 8.b, c, d, e and f.

Figure 8

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