UNIT 1

SINALS AND SYATEMS

PART A
1. What is meant by aliasing? How can it be avoided?
2. Give the graphical and mathematical representation of CT and DT unit impulse, unit
step and unit ramp function.
3. Explain low pass sampling theorem.
4. Classify discrete time signals.
5. Define Nyquist rate. Compute Nyquist rate of the signal x(t) = A sin(250t)+B
sin(500t)
6. Find the energy and power of x(n) = Aejnu(n).
7. Compare energy signal and power signals.
8. Examine which of the following sequences is periodic, and compute their
fundamental period. (a) Aej7n

(b) sin(3n)

9. Inspect the system y (n) = ln [x (n)] is linear and time invariant?

10. Estimate the Z transform of x(n) = 5nu(n)
11. Find the signal energy of (1/2)nu(n)
12. Experiment whether the following sinusoid is periodic, if periodic then compute their
fundamental period. (a) cos 0.01n

(b) sin(62n/10)

13. Experiment whether the system y (n) = ex (n) is linear.

14. Classify the discrete time systems.
15. Estimate the Z transform of x(n) = anu(n)
16. Give the properties of convolution.
17. List the properties of Z-Transform.
18. What is correlation? What are it types?
19. Write down the Z transform pairs.
20. Find the inverse Z transform of the sequence Z-5 X(Z)
21. Identify the autocorrelation of the sequence x(n) = {1, 1, -2, -2}

PART B
1. (i) Find the convolution of the signals x(n) =
u(n)

and h(n) =

(ii) Find the transfer function and impulse response of the system y(n) +
x(n) +

y(n 1) =

x(n 1).

2. (i) Find the inverse Z transform of

X(Z) =

if

(1)ROC: |Z| > 1, (2) ROC: |Z| < 0.5, (3) ROC: 0.5 < |Z| <1
(ii) Outline the expressions to relate Z transfer and DFT
3. (i)Determine the transfer function, and impulse response of the system
y(n)

y(n 1) +

y(n 2) = x(n) +

x(n 1)

(ii) Solve the convolution sum of

And h(n) = (n) (n 1) + (n 2) (n 3)

4. (i) Find the Z transform of
1. x(n) = 2nu(n 2)
2. x(n) = n2u(n)
(ii) Explain the scaling and time delay properties of Z transform.
5. (i) Prove sampling theorem with suitable expressins.
(ii) Find the Z-transform of the following sequences:
x(n) (0.5)nu(n) u(n 1)
x(n) (n

5)
6. (i) Suppose a LTI system with input x(n ) and output y(n ) is characterized by its unit
sample response h(n ) = (0.8)nu(n ) .
(ii) A causal system is represented by the following difference Equation

7. (i) Compute the normalized autocorrelation of the signal x(n ) a

n u(n ),0 a
1
(ii) Determine the impulse response for the cascade of two LTI system having impulse
responses

8. (i) Find the inverse Z-Transform of

using
a. Residue method and
b. Convolution method.
(ii) State and prove circular convolution.
9. LTI system is described by the difference equation yna
yn1b x n . Find the impulse
response, magnitude function and phase function. Solve b, if
Sketch the
magnitude and phase response for =0.6
10. Determine the causual signal x(n)for the following Z-transform
(i)

X(z) = (z2+z) / ((z-0.5)3(z-0.25))

(ii)

X(z) = (1+z-1) / (1-z-1+0.5z-2)

1

11. (i) Find inverse Z transfer of X(Z) =

11.5 Z + 0.5 Z2

if ROC : |Z| > 1, (2)

ROC : |Z| < 0.5, (3) ROC : 0.5 < |Z| <1
(iii)

Develop expressions to relate Z transfer and DFT

12. (i)Determine the transfer function, and impulse response of the system y(n)
y(n 1) +

1
8 y(n 2) = x(n) +

(ii) Find the convolution sum of

1
3 x(n 1).
x ( n )=

1n=2, 0, 1
2n=1
0 otherwise

And h (n) = (n) (n 1) + (n 2) (n 3)

13. Test the following systems for static, linear, time variant, causal, stability:
y ( n )=cos [ x ( n ) ]
y ( n )=x (n+2)

y ( n )=e x(n)

3
4

y ( n )=x (2 n)
y ( n )=x (n /2)

14. (i) Consider the analog signal Xa(t)=3cos 2000t+5sin6000t+10cos2000t

1) What is the Nyquist rate for this signal.
2) Assume now that we sample this signal using a sampling rate
Fs=5000samples/s.What is the discrete time signal obtained after sampling?
3) What is the analog signal ya(t) that we can reconstruct from the samples if
we use ideal interpolation?