EE 220 : Signals and Systems
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineerng
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Monsoon 2024
Tutorial 1 : Signals and Systems
Q1. Sketch each of the following continuous-time signals. For each case, specify if the
signal is causal/non-causal, periodic/non-periodic, odd/even. If the signal is periodic specify
its period.
a.
x(t) = sin(2πt)
b.
x(t) = 3 exp−2t for t ≥ 0; and x(t) = 0 for t < 0
c.
1
x(t) =
|t|
Q2. Sketch the signal
x(t) = 1 − t for 0 ≤ t ≤ 1 and x(t) = 0 otherwise
Sketch the following signals derived from the original x(t)
a.
x(t + 3)
b.
t
x( )
3
c.
x(−2t + 1)
Q3. Sketch each of the following signals. For each case, specify if the signal is causal/non-
causal,periodic/nonperiodic, odd/even. If the signal is periodic specify its period
a.
x[n] = cos(nπ)
b.
x[n] = 0.5−n for n ≤ 0 and x[n] = 0for n > 0
1
Q4. Consider the rectangular function
1
x(t) = 1 for |t| <
2
1 1
x(t) = for |t| =
2 2
x(t) = 0 otherwise
a. Sketch
1
X
y(t) = x(t − k) where k=integer
k=0
b. Sketch ∞
X
y(t) = x(t − k) where k=integer
−∞
Q5. State if the following systems are linear/non-linear, causal/non-causal, time-invariant/time
varying.
a.
y[n] = sgn(x[n])
b.
y[n] = n2 x[n + 2]
c.
Y [t] = x(t) cos(2πf t + ϕ)
Rt
Q6. If x(t) = δ(t + 1) − δ(t − 3) . Find the energy in y(t) = −∞
x(τ )dτ
Q7. Find the energy in x(t) shown in Figure 1 .
Figure 1:
