Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using MATLAB (Hardcover)

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

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Product Description

With a strong emphasis on solving problems and exploring concepts, this guidebook delivers an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Discusses how to download signals (time series) from the Web and analyze the data. Includes details on common types of digital filters, such as moving average and exponential moving average filters, with applications to filtering data downloaded from the Web. Addresses signal analysis using the DFT to extract the dominant cyclic components of a signal. Addresses the issue of noise, which often arises in engineering, business, finance, and other fields. For those interested in learning more about signals and systems.

 

 

 

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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®.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (December 13, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0023619422
• ISBN-13: 978-0023619427
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,037,329 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cryptic, August 22, 2006

By	D. Fuller (Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Georgia Tech student perspective, December 8, 2007

By	GTstudent "GT4EVER" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

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

Awful for a control system course (which is what it is intended for and used for at Georgia Tech). The only good control/systems sections were on root locus and Bode design. The first half of the book is on refresher material from DSP (Laplace transforms, etc.). Try Gene Franklin's Feedback Design book for a much more sophisticated approach (with examples!) on actual control systems.