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Aric Goe

Signals & Systems

• Signals and Systems

Introduction

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Simple Transformer Equation

${\frac {Ep}{Tp}}={\frac {Es}{Ts}}$

How a CD Player Works

First, a digital signal $\ x(kt)$ is read from the CD and then convolved with a pulse function $\ p(t)$ in the D/A converter. The result in the time domain looks like this:

${\hat {x}}(t)=\sum _{k=-\infty }^{\infty }x(kT)p(t-kT)=p(t)*\sum _{k=-\infty }^{\infty }x(kT)\delta (t-kT)$

Let's look at this result in frequency space. Note that convolution in time means multiplication in frequency.

${\hat {X}}(f)={\frac {1}{T}}\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }X(f-{\frac {n}{T}})\cdot P(f)$

where

$P(f)=\int _{-{\frac {T}{2}}}^{\frac {T}{2}}e^{j2\pi ft}\,dt=Tsinc(fT)$

The low pass filter then knocks the high frequencies out of the signal coming from the D/A converter, which smoothes out the edges of the reproduced sine wave ${\hat {x}}(t)$ in time. This output waveform then drives the speaker, thereby recreating the original sound stored on the CD.

Contributing Authors:

Todd Caswell

Aric Goe