SIGNALS, SYSTEMS AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
UNIT I: SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
2 Marks Questions
1. Define a Signal? Give examples?
2. Define a system? Give examples?
3. Name some elementary signals?
4. Define periodic and aperiodic signals?
5. Define Energy and Power signals?
6. What is the periodicity of x(t)=ej100πt+60
7. Determine whether the following signal is energy or power signal. Calculate its
Energy or Power, x(t)=e-2t u(t)
8. What are the basic operations on signals?
9. (State Dirichlet condition for Fourier series?
10. Write the trigonometric form and exponential form of the Fourier series
representation of aperiodic signal?
10 Marks Questions and Answers:
1.a. Find the energy and power of the signal e-2tu(t)
b. Test whether the signal y(t)=ax(t)+b is linear or non linear.
2.Find the Trigonometric Fourier series of a half wave rectified sine wave
3.Find the trigonometric Fourier series representation of a periodic square wave
X(t)=1, for the interval (0,π)
=0, for the interval (π,2π)
4. Define a signal with examples? Explain various classification of signals with
examples?
5.a. Explain the various operations performed on signals?
b.Find the Fourier series representation of the periodic square wave x(t)
shown below
6. a. Explain various types of elementary signals?
b. Discuss on analogy between vectors and signals?
7. Define system and explain various classifications of systems with examples?
8.a. Explain the concept of time domain, frequency domain and discrete
spectrum?
b. State whether the following systems are stable, causal, memory or memory
less. Give the reasons
i)h(n)=(1/2)n u(n+1) (ii)h(n)=2n u(n)
8.a. Determine whether or not the following signals are are periodic and compute
their fundamental period.
i)x(t)=sin10πt+cos20 πt (ii)x(n)=cos(n/8) cos(πn/8)
b. Explain the following terms
i.Convolution ii. Correlation
UNIT II: FOURIER TRANSFORM AND LAPLACE TRANSFORM
2 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. Find the Fourier Transform of eat u(-t)
2. The Laplace Transform of a unit step function.
3. Define Fourier Transform pair for continuous time signal?
4. Define Fourier transform and Inverse Fourier transform?
5. Define convolution and correlation?
6. Find the Laplace Transform of 3cos 4t?
1. Find the Inverse Laplace Transform for
7. Define Laplace Transform and ROC?
8. Write the expressions for Laplace Transform and Inverse Laplace Transform?
9. Give the relation between Fourier transform and Laplace transform?
10 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. a . Find the Fourier Transform of x(t)=te-2t u(t)?
b. Find the Fourier transform of
i.Unit step function ii. Delta function
2. a. Discuss on Laplace Transform and ROC?
b. Find the inverse Laplace transform of
3.a. State any four properties of Fourier Transform?
b. Find the Fourier transform for the function
x(t)=e-at u(t). Plot its magnitude and phase spectrum.
4.a. Explain the relation between Laplace and Fourier transform?
b. Find the inverse Laplace transform of
5.a. Find the Fourier transform of a signum function?
b. Find the Laplace transform and ROC of
x(t)= e2t u(-t)+ 3 e5t u(-t)
6.a. Find the Fourier transform of a gate function?
b. Find the Laplace transform and ROC of
x(t) = e-2t u(t) + e-4t u(t)
UNIT III: SIGNAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH LINEAR SYSTEMS
2 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. State the condition for distortion less transmission through an LTI system?
2. State the relation between bandwidth and rise time?
3. Define the LTI system?
4. What is the condition for physical reliability of a system?
5. Write the characteristics of LPF and HPF?
10 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. a.State the various ways of describing a system.
b. The input and output of an LTI system are related by the differential
equation:
Find the impulse response of the system.
3.a. Explain the characteristics of an ideal low pass and band pass filters.
b. State the significance of an impulse response of a system.
4. a. The input x(t) and impulse response h(t) of a system are given as
x(t) = u(t) and h(t)= e-3tu(t). Find the output of the system.
b. Differentiate signal bandwidth and system bandwidth.
5. Establish the relationship between energy density spectrum and auto correlation
function of a signal.
b. Explain the relation between signal bandwidth, system bandwidth, bandwidth and
rise time?
UNIT IV: RANDOM PROCESSESS – TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS
2 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. Define deterministic and non-deterministic processes?
2. Define WSS and SSS?
3. Define time averages?
4. Define Erogodicity?
5. What is Gaussian random process and Poisson random process?
6. Define mean and mean squared value?
10 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. A random process is defined as X(t)=A sin(ωt+θ), where A is a constant and
θ is random variable, uniformly distributed over (-π, π). Check X(t) for
stationary.
2. a.Differentiate deterministic and non-deterministic random processes.
b. Given the random process X(t)=A Cos (0t + Ɵ), where A and 0 are
constants and Ɵ is a uniformly distributed random variable on the interval (0,
2π) with magnitude 1/2π. Show that X(t) is Wide Sense Stationary random
process.
3. a.State and explain any four properties of cross correlation function
b. The autocorrelation function for a stationary ergodic process is given by:
Find mean and variance of the process.
4. a.Differentiate stationary and ergodic random processes.
b. Given the random process X(t)=A Cos 0t + B Sin 0t, where 0 is a
constant and A and B are uncorrelated zero mean random variables having
different density functions but the same variance 2 . Show that X(t) is wide
sense stationary random process.
5. a.State and explain any four properties of autocorrelation function.
b.Let X(t) be a wide-sense stationary random process with Autocorrelation
Function RXX(t) = e-a|τ|, where ‘a’ > 0 is a constant. We assume that X(t) is
amplitude modulated by a carrier Cos(0t+ Ɵ) where 0 is a constant and Ɵ
is random variable uniformly distributed on (-π, π) with magnitude 1/2π and
is statistically independent with X(t). Determine the autocorrelation
function RYY(τ) of amplitude modulated process Y(t).
6. Prove the following properties of Auto correlation function.
(i) |RXX(τ)|≤ RXX(0)
(ii) RXX(-τ)= RXX(τ)
(iii) RXX(τ+T)= RXX(τ)
(iv)
7. State and prove the following properties. (i) RXY (-τ) = RYX (τ)
(ii) If tow random processes X(t) and Y(t) are statistically independent and
wide sense stationary,
(iii)
8. The autocorrelation function for a stationary Ergodic process with no
periodic components is
Find the mean value and variance of X(t)
UNIT IV: RANDOM PROCESSESS – TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS
2 Marks Questions and Answers:
1. Define cross power spectrum and state any two properties?
2. State the relation between cross power spectrum and cross correlation function?
3. Define power density spectrum?
4. Define bandwidth of power density spectrum?
5. State the relation between power spectrum and autocorrelation function?
10 Marks Questions and Answers:
1.a. State and explain any four properties of cross power spectral density.
b. Assume a wide-sense stationary process X(t) has an Autocorrelation Function:
Where ‘T’ > 0 and A0 are constants. Find power spectral density.
2.a.Derive equations for cross power spectral density and power of input-output of
an LTI System.
b. Find the power spectral density and average power of the response of the network
shown below when input X(t) has power spectral density No/2.
3.a.State and explain any four properties of power spectral density.
b.Consider the random process X(t) = A0Cos(0t + 2Ɵ) where A0 and 0 are constants
and Ɵ is a random variable uniformly distributed on the interval (0, π /2) with
magnitude 2/ π. Fond the average power in X(t).
4.a.Derive equation for power density spectrum and power of response of an LTI
System.
b.The autocorrelation function of a wide-sense stationary process X(t) is given by
RXX(τ) = (A20/2) Cos(0τ ) where A0 and 0 are constants. Find the power spectral
density of the process.
5.a. Derive the relationship between power spectrum and autocorrelation function?
b. Derive the relationship between cross power spectrum and cross correlation
function?
