Signals and Systems

The third edition of Signals and Systems prepares students for real-world engineering applications. It is concise, focused, and practical. The text introduces basic concepts in signals and systems and their associated mathematical and computational tools. It also stresses the most important concepts in signal analysis (frequency spectra) and system analysis (stability and frequency responses) and uses them throughout, including the study of seismometers and accelerometers.
Signals and Systems, 3/e, introduces every term carefully and develops every topic logically. It distinguishes amplitudes and magnitudes, as well as lumped and distributed systems. It presents engineering concepts as early as possible and discusses transform theory only as needed. Also, the text employs transfer functions and state-space equations only in the contexts where they are most efficient. Transfer functions are used exclusively in qualitative analysis and design, and state-space equations are used exclusively in computer computation and op-amp circuit implementation. Thus, the students' time is focused on learning only what can be immediately used.
Including an author commentary on the best way to approach the text, Signals and Systems, 3/e, is ideal for sophomore- and junior-level undergraduate courses in systems and signals. It assumes a background in general physics (including simple circuit analysis), simple matrix operations, and basic calculus.

Chen (electrical engineering, State University of New York-Stony Brook) introduces basic concepts in signals and systems and their associated mathematical and computational tools, stressing the most important concepts in signal and system analysis. Written for second-and third-year undergraduates, the text employs transfer functions and state-space equations only in contexts where they are most efficient, focusing on material students can use immediately. Background is assumed in general physics, simple circuit analysis, simple matrix operations, and basic calculus. This third edition uses operational amplifiers as examples to discuss system concepts, introduces engineering concepts earlier, and emphasizes computer computation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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A text for sophomore-junior courses in systems and signals for electrical, mechanical, and system engineering students. Introduces fundamental concepts such as causality, linearity, and lumpedness, and discusses the Laplace, Fourier, and z transforms, frequency spectrum computations, stabilities and their implications, state variable equations, and computer simulations. Assumes a knowledge of general physics, simple circuit analysis, and elementary linear algebra. Discusses the use of the Student Edition of MATLAB. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

CHI-TSONG CHEN is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the author of more than eighty technical articles and five books, including Digital Signal Processing (OUP, 2001) and Linear System Theory and Design, 3/e (OUP, 1999).