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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Signals and Systems

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

Overview

6.003 covers the fundamentals of signal and system analysis, focusing on representations of discrete-time and continuous-time signals (singularity functions, complex exponentials and geometrics, Fourier representations, Laplace and Z transforms, sampling) and representations of linear, time-invariant systems (difference and differential equations, block diagrams, system functions, poles and zeros, convolution, impulse and step responses, frequency responses). Applications are drawn broadly from engineering and physics, including feedback and control, communications, and signal processing.

Syllabus

1. Signals and Systems.
2. Discrete-Time (DT) Systems.
3. Feedback, Poles, and Fundamental Modes.
4. Continuous-Time (CT) Systems.
5. Z Transform.
6. Laplace Transform.
7. Discrete Approximation of Continuous-Time Systems.
8. Convolution.
9. Frequency Response.
10. Feedback and Control.
11. Continuous-Time (CT) Frequency Response and Bode Plot.
12. Continuous-Time (CT) Feedback and Control, Part 1.
13. Continuous-Time (CT) Feedback and Control, Part 2.
14. Fourier Representations.
15. Fourier Series.
16. Fourier Transform.
17. Discrete-Time (DT) Frequency Representations.
18. Discrete-Time (DT) Fourier Representations.
19. Relations Among Fourier Representations.
20. Applications of Fourier Transforms.
21. Sampling.
22. Sampling and Quantization.
23. Modulation, Part 1.
24. Modulation, Part 2.
25. Audio CD.

Taught by

Prof. Dennis Freeman

Reviews

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  • I have been learning from this summer and it has been a great experience. He is a very thoughtful teacher who puts a lot of thought into how he presents the material. His lessons were engaging, useful, and he was very patient with everyone in class always encouraging his students to try. I would highly recommend him to anyone interested in learning
  • A Raghavendra
    Very good course and most important topics are there in the syllabus , easy to understand the course.
  • Ahmed Maher El-bayadi
    Awesome, clear and very thorough, need more online simulation to be embedded into the course material
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    Great! I never witnessed such kind of technical core explanation of each and everything .im very grateful for what knowledge i have received from thus course
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    The section is nice overview on the signals and systems in so many concepts,types of signals, representation of signals, sampling frequency,signal like so many I can learn
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    It has very enriching information and helped me improve my concepts, the course was well designed for beginners
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    Karthik S L
    Overall the course is good , learnt new things on signal conditioning and have able to relate with my current studies, now am waiting to earn my certificate
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    Awesome, clear and very thorough, need more online simulation to be embedded into the course material

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