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Scope of Systems
- In this class we will primarily work with circuits as systems
- In most cases a voltage or current will be the input signal to the
system
- Another current or voltage will be the output signal of the system
- However, our treatment applies to a much broader class of systems
- Examples
– Circuits – Motors – Chemical processing plants – Engines – Spring-mass systems
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Systems Fundamentals Overview
- Definition
- Examples
- Properties
– Memory – Invertibility – Causality – Stability – Time Invariance – Linearity
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Memory Memoryless: A system is memoryless if and only if the output y(t) at any time t0 depends only on the input x(t) at that same time: x(t0).
- Memory indicates the system has the means to store information
about the input from the past or future
- Capacitors and inductors store energy and therefore create systems
with memory
- Resistors have no such mechanism and are therefore memoryless
systems: v(t) = Ri(t)
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Definition of a System h(t)
x(t) y(t)
h[n]
x[n] y[n]
System: a process in which input signals are transformed by the system or cause the system to respond in some way, resulting in other signals as outputs.
- All of the systems that we will consider have a single input and a
single output
- All of the signals that we will consider are likewise univariate
- We will use the notation x(t) → y(t) to mean the input signal
x(t) causes an output signal y(t)
- h(t) is the impulse response of the continuous-time system:
δ(t) → h(t)
- h[n] is the impulse response of the discrete-time system:
δ[n] → h[n]
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