Autumn 2019
Prof. Madhu N. Belur
Author: K T Prajwal Prathiksh
Pre-requisite courses: MA 108 (Not a hard pre-requisite)
Pre-requisite skills: None. The concepts required can be picked up on the go.
Course Content:
- Continuous-time signals and systems - signal characteristics, properties of continuous-time systems
- Continuous linear time-invariant systems
- Impulse response & Convolution
- Linear constant-coefficient differential equations
- Fourier series, Fourier transform, Laplace transform
- System analysis frequency response
- Analog filters
- State-space analysis for continuous-time systems
- Discrete-time signals and systems
- Discrete-time LTI systems - convolution, difference equations
- Sampling
Motivation to take up the course: Wanted to pursue an Electrical minor, and was keen on starting it off with a theoretical course as opposed to a course that had lab-work.
Information about Projects/Assignments: No assignments or projects were conducted. Just quizzes, Mid-Sem & End-Sem were used for the evaluation.
Quizzes/Midsem/Endsem papers Difficulty: 3/5
Overall Course Difficulty: Moderate
Average Time Commitment: (Apart from lectures and tutorials) Less than 3 hrs
Attendance Policy: 80% Attendance was told, however, it wasn’t strictly enforced.
General funda: Go through the standard reference book by Alan V. Oppenheim. Work out the problems given in the book, and tutorials. This is enough to crack the course.
Grading stats: Normally distributed about ‘BC’.
Professor’s Teaching Style: The method of teaching was good. However towards the end of the course, content was being repeated more often than not, and hence classes became a bit boring.
Should you do this course?: Someone who is interested in understanding what the theoretical aspects of an Electrical minor comprises of can take up this course. Even students who are interested in a SysCon minor, but have not yet made up their mind and want instead want to try out related courses before ca pick this one up.