Answers Week 2 - Analysis in the time domain

April 29, 2017

2.1 Idea: write the signals as a sum of weighted and shifted pulses.

a) x[n] = δ[n] + 2δ[n − 1] + δ[n − 2].

b) x[n] = 2δ[n + 2] + 2δ[n] − 0.5δ[n − 1] + δ[n + 4].
2.2 Idea: indicate if the system is causal and stable.

a) Causal and stable.

b) Not causal, but stable.
c) Causal and stable.
d) Causal and stable.
e) Causal, but not stable.

2.4 Idea: first compute the impulse response from the recurrent formula and then sketch the
first 10 terms of the response.

(
1 if n = 0, 4, 8
a) h[n] =
0 else

(
r[n] if 0 ≤ n ≤ 6
b) h[n] =
0 else

(
1 if 0 ≤ n < 8
c) h[n] =
0 else

h[0] = 1, h[1] = 1, h[2] = 0.5,

h[3] = 0, h[4] = −0.25, h[5] = −0.25,
d)
h[6] = −0.125, h[7] = 0, h[8] = 0.0625,
h[9] = 0.0625, h[10] = 0.03125

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 2.8 Idea: first compute the impulse response from the system description, then compute the
step response from the impulse response and finally, sketch the signals

a) s[n] = u[n] + u[n − 4] + u[n − 8]

b) s[n] = r[n + 1] − r[n − 7]

2.9 Idea: first compute the impulse response from the system description, then compute the
step response from the impulse response and finally, sketch the signals.

s[0] = 1, s[1] = 1.5, s[2] = 1.75,

a)
s[3] = 1.875, s[4] = 1.9375

s[0] = 1, s[1] = 0.5, s[2] = 0.75,

b)
s[3] = 0.625, s[4] = 0.6875

2.10 Idea: compute the output signal as a convolution of the given x[n] and h[n] and sketch the
result.

a) y[n] = x[n] + x[n − 1] + x[n − 2]

b) y[n] = x[n] − x[n − 1]

Pn
c) y[n] = k=0 β k αn−k

2.11 Idea: the range of k is determined by the elements of h[k] and x[n − k] that are not equal
to zero.
Answer: k should range from 0 upto and including 2.

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2.13 Idea: compute the impulse response from the block diagram first and next compute the step
response from the impulse response.

1 1
h[0] = s[0] =
10 10
3 1
h[1] = − s[1] = −
20 20
1 1
h[2] = s[2] =
4 5
1 1
h[3] = − s[3] = −
4 20
3 1
h[4] = s[4] =
20 10
1
h[5] = − s[5] = 0
10
h[6] = 0 s[6] = 0

The filter is a running weighted average filter.