Class lecture notes October 5 - HW3

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Homework #3 - Class lecture notes October 5

The following notes are my interpretation of the material covered in class on October 5, 2009

Nonperiodic Signals

In real life, most systems have a finite time period and can be fairly easily evaluated as periodic. However, we do want to be able to evaluate nonperiodic signals for cases when this is not possible.
A nonperiodic signal can be thought of as periodic signal with an infinite period. To deal with such signals we can take the limit as the period T goes to infinity, or
limTn=(1TT2T2x(t')ej2πnt'Tdt')ej2πntT, where 1TT2T2x(t')ej2πnt'Tdt' is the αn term.
We want to remove the restriction x(t)=x(t+T), which we can do as follows.

1Tdf
nTf
n=1T()df
αnX(f)

So x(t)=limTn=1T(T2T2x(t')ej2πnt'Tdt')ej2πntT
Using nT=f and the information above, we can rewrite the equation.
x(t)=(x(t')ej2πft'dt')ej2πftdf, where x(t')ej2πft'dt'=X(f)
So x(t)=X(f)e+j2πftdf=<X(f)|ej2πft> This is the inverse Fourier transform.
Also, X(f)=x(t)ej2πftdt=<x(t)|ej2πft> This is the Fourier transform.
So x(t)=1[X(f)] and X(f)=[x(t)]
From above, x(t)=f(t'x(t')ej2πft'dt')ej2πftdf, so
x(t)=t'x(t')(δ(tt')ej2πf(tt')df)dt', where ej2πf(tt')df=<ej2πft|ej2πft'> with respect to f.
Similarly, X(f)=t(f'X(f')e+j2πft'df')ej2πftdt, where f'X(f')e+j2πft'df'=x(t),so
X(f)=f'X(f')(tej2πt(f'f)dt)df'
Now δ(f'f)=δ(ff') which is the projection <ej2πft|ej2πf't> with respect to t.

The Linear Time Invariant System Game

Recall the Linear Time Invariant System Game that can be used to help us understand the impulse response of a linear time invariant system.

Input Linear Time Invariant System Output Reason
δ(t) h(t) Given
δ(tt0) h(tt0) Time Invariance
x(t0)δ(tt0) x(t0)h(tt0) Proportionality
x(t0)δ(tt0)dt0 x(t0)h(tt0)dt0 Superposition


where x(t0)δ(tt0)dt0=x(t) for any x(t) and x(t0)h(tt0)dt0 is the convolution integral.

We can expand the game further.

Input Linear Time Invariant System Output Reason
δ(t) h(t) Given
δ(tt0) h(tt0) Time Invariance
x(t0)δ(tt0) x(t0)h(tt0) Proportionality
x(t) x(t0)h(tt0)dt0 Superposition
ej2πft ej2πft0h(tt0)dt0 Superposition


Let λ=tt0, so t0=tλ and dt0=dλ
Therefore ej2πft0h(tt0)dt0=+h(λ)ej2πf(tλ)(dλ)=ej2πfth(λ)ej2πfλdλ
This tells us that ej2πft is the eigenfunction and h(λ)ej2πfλdλ is the eigenvalue of all linear time invariant systems.
Also, the eigenvalue h(λ)ej2πfλdλ is H(f), which equals the Fourier transform of h(t), or H(f)=[h(t)]
We can expand the game even further.

Input Linear Time Invariant System Output Reason
δ(t) h(t) Given
δ(tt0) h(tt0) Time Invariance
x(t0)δ(tt0) x(t0)h(tt0) Proportionality
x(t) x(t0)h(tt0)dt0 Superposition
ej2πft H(f)ej2πft Superposition
X(f)ej2πft X(f)H(f)ej2πft Proportionality
X(f)ej2πftdf X(f)H(f)ej2πftdf Superposition


where X(f)ej2πftdf=x(t) and X(f)H(f)ej2πftdf=1[H(f)X(f)]
This is helpful because in frequency space, when I go through a linear time invariant system, it multiplies by the transfer function, compared to time space, which convolves the impulse response, and we would all prefer to do multiplication rather than convolution.