Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using MATLAB [Hardcover]

Edward W. Kamen (Author), Bonnie S. Heck (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0023619422 | ISBN-13: 978-0023619427 | Publication Date: December 13, 1996 | Edition: 1

For a Signals and Systems course in Engineering departments. Developed from Professor Kamen's best-selling text Introduction to Signals and Systems, this forward-looking text presents an accessible yet comprehensive analytical treatment of signals and systems and also incorporates a strong emphasis on solving problems and exploring concepts using MATLAB. A MATLAB tutorial is provided on a disk which is available for student/instructor use, and all examples in the text are developed in terms of the Student Edition of MATLAB A (R).

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From the Publisher

Developed from Professor Kamen's best-selling text Introduction to Signals and Systems, this forward-looking new text presents accessible yet comprehensive analytical treatment of signals and systems and also incorporates a strong emphasis on solving problems and exploring concepts using MATLAB. A MATLAB tutorial is provided on a disk which is available for student/instructor use, and all examples in the text are developed in terms of the Student Edition of MATLAB®.

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: This forward-looking new book presents accessible yet comprehensive analytical treatment of signals and systems and also incorporates a strong emphasis on solving problems and exploring concepts using MATLAB. Key Topics: Continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems are treated side by side throughout, allowing for a more direct comparison between the two cases, a keener understanding of their similarities and differences, and thus a more complete grasp of the theory. Motivates theory and involves common applications such as: Electrical circuits, Analog and digital filters, Mechanical systems, Biological systems, Banking, and Manufacturing systems. Contains separate chapters on feedback control and digital filter design and the state space representation. Presents some material on nonlinear systems, linearization, and time-varying systems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (December 13, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0023619422
• ISBN-13: 978-0023619427
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,844,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Edward W. Kamen was born in Mansfield, Ohio on October 2, 1945. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1967, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. minor in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1971. From 1971 to 1981 he was on the faculty at Georgia Tech, where he carried out basic research on the study of infinite-dimensional systems and linear time-varying systems. In 1981, Dr. Kamen moved to the University of Florida where his research centered on two-dimensional systems and adaptive control. In 1986, he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pitt, part of his research focused on the development of the SME filter approach to multiple target tracking. In 1991, Dr. Kamen returned to Georgia Tech to assume the Julian T. Hightower endowed professorship. While at Tech, he was an Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center and the founding director of the Center for Board Assembly Research (CBAR), which dealt with both education and research involving printed circuit board assembly. In 2002, Dr. Kamen retired from Georgia Tech (where he is now Professor Emeritus) in order to focus on developing techniques for trend analysis of time series data in real time, including financial data such as stock prices. Dr. Kamen is author/co-author of over 100 journal and conference papers and six textbooks in the areas of signals, systems, controls, and manufacturing. For a listing of his major research publications, go to the website http://www.edwardkamen.com. Dr. Kamen was General Chairman of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he is a Fellow of the IEEE. During his 31 years as a university professor, he was the Ph.D. advisor of 28 students. For a list of the names of the graduates and their dissertation titles, go to the website http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=63601

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Dissapointed, April 20, 2005

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Lifelong Student (Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

The information in this book is difficult enough to learn, and the way it is presented here compounds the problem.
The Information and examples are not explained thoroughly or completely (to compressed) can be very over whelming.
There are many practice problems at the end of each chapter (great) there is one problem ...there are no ANSWERS???. I was not able to find a solutions manual. I even emailed the author (I got no reply). Very difficult to know if your solving the Practice Problems correctly if you don't have any solved practice prolems let alone any answers. I did manage to pick up some of what the author was trying to say, but i had to read each chapter numerous times. The website referred to in the book has a few solved example problems for each chapter, but many are hand written and could not be interpreted. In all honesty I was using this book in conjunction with a self study coarse and did not have the benefit of an instructor.I would not reccomend using this book alone,when trying to grasp this subject.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Plain Language a Plus -- But Doesn't Go Enough Into Detail, December 5, 2007

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Heather M. (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB® (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

The fact that this book is written in plain language is great, it makes a lot of concepts a lot easier to digest. However, the material here is extremely patchy. As a student learning this for the first time, I've found that this textbook isn't exactly the most effective due to the holes between content areas. The author seems to go into detail about things that seem unimportant, while he/she skims over the real meat of the subject. And what's worse is the fact that there are no worked out examples. If there were more worked examples, concepts might click amongst the patchy conceptual explanations. There is MATLAB scattered throughout the text, which I've found useful at times, but it too is not explained well-enough. All in all, this is not a text that I recommend to those in their introductory signal processing courses, rather, I recommend this text to those who have already taken introductory signal processing classes and are in need of a review text. As a review for those already in the know, this text seems great.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cryptic, August 22, 2006

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D. Fuller (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

This book would be excellent for someone who is already familiar with signals but is not good for the student who is learning the topic. Very few examples and no student solutions manual makes it a hard sell. For those after theory only.