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T&Th 3:20-4:40,  SEC-118



INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Rose can be reached at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu.  Office hours Tuesdays 1 hour before and after class in EE 122 (or EE 104 across the way) in the EE building. Email questions are useful to get things started and will get fast response (sometimes even if posted in the middle of the night).

TA:  Canute (Ken) Vaz can be reached at  kenvaz@eden.rutgers.edu.  Office hours TBA (in EE104)


MISCELLANEOUS:    Here's an info sheet in pdf.  Here's a Laplace Transform Table.   There's a nice Fourier Transform table in appendix A6.2 of your text. Here's a table of math facts you might find useful.  Here's an example of FM.  Here is a FANTASTIC page on linear systems stuff!  There is also a moderated mailing list pcs_08@rams.rutgers.edu to which you can post questions/comments. The archive of emails is here.  You can also contact me directly at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu and I'll repost your question to the class (by default with your name removed).


Eta Kappa Nu SURVEY 2005


 TOPICAL LIST BY WEEK
  1. Introduction and Linear System Review  (appendix 2 will help)
  2. AM Modulation Demodulation Multiplexing    (2.1-2.5)
  3. FM Modulation Demodulation (2.6-2.9)
  4. Phase Locked Loops +  Review
  5. Quiz I (February 19)  +  Sampling and PAM  (3.1-3.4)
  6. Quantization, Convexity, Loyd-Max  (3.6 + convexity and quantization notes)
  7. PCM, Delta and Adaptive Modulation (3.7-3.15) (an energetic demonstration of Delta Modulation starring the very adaptive Alan Toy, directed by Eric Love and photographed by Jim Nici and Newman Hsiao)
  8. Probability Review and Basic Stochastic Processes  (chapter 1 + appendix 1 will help)

  9. SPRING BREAK

  10. Gaussian Processes and LTI Systems (chapter 1 + lecture)
  11. Review + Quiz II (April 3)
  12. Matched Filters, Hypothesis Testing  (4.1-4.3)
  13. ISI Orthogonality and Signal Space (4.4-4.5,4.10, 5.1-5.2)
  14. Optimum Receivers, Distance-Based Decoding  (5.4-5.6)
  15. Digital Modulation Menagerie, BER (assorted from chapter 6)
          FINAL EXAM (May 9:  12-3pm)

 

PROBLEM SETS and EXAMS (in pdf)

Problem Sets follow lecture schedule and are informational -- they will not be collected or graded. NEWS FLASH: (don't do problem sets) = (almost certain failure).  
  1. Assessment Test (Assessment Test with solutions)   
  2. Problem Set 1 (Problem Set 1 w/ soln)   
  3. Problem Set 2 (Problem Set 2 w/ soln)   Here's a decent description of the envelope detector.   Here's a spark gap transmitter description
  4. Problem Set 3 (Problem Set 3 w/ soln)  
  5. Problem Set 4 (Problem Set 4 w/ soln)  
  6. Envelope Detection Problem (Envelope Detection Problem soln)
  7. QUIZ I (2004) ( QUIZ I (2004) w/ soln)
  8. QUIZ I (2005) ( QUIZ I (2005) w/ soln)
  9. QUIZ I (2006) ( QUIZ I (2006) w/ soln)
  10. QUIZlette I (2006) ( QUIZlette I (2006) w/ soln)
  11. QUIZ I (2008) ( QUIZ I (2008) w/ soln)
  12. Problem Set 5 (Problem Set 5 w/ soln)  
  13. Problem Set 6 (Problem Set 6 w/ soln)  
  14. Problem Set 7 (Problem Set 7 w/ soln)  
  15. Problem Set 8 (Problem Set 8 w/ soln)  
  16. QUIZ II (2004) ( QUIZ II (2004) w/ soln)
  17. QUIZ II (2005) ( QUIZ II (2005) w/ soln)
  18. QUIZ II (2006) ( QUIZ II (2006) w/ soln)
  19. QUIZ II (2008) ( QUIZ II (2008) w/ soln)
  20. Problem Set 9 (Problem Set 9 w/ soln)     (handwritten derivation by student for problem 4a)
  21. Problem Set 10 (Problem Set 10 w/ soln)  
  22. Problem Set 11 (Problem Set 11 w/ soln)  
  23. FINAL (2008) ( FINAL (2008) w/ soln )
  24. FINAL (2004) ( FINAL (2004) w/ soln )  
  25. FINAL (2005) ( FINAL (2005) w/ soln )   
  26. FINAL (2006) ( FINAL (2006) w/ soln )

Old stuff

  1. Old exam 1  
  2. Old exam 2   
  3. All exams from Spring '03:  Q1   Q2    Final  

GRADES

Quiz I Histogram (2008)

Scatter Plot Quiz I and II (2008)


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If you have questions, comments or other suggestions please email your comments to crose@winlab.rutgers.edu