***Book is published and available as of 6/03!!!
Signals and Systems by M.J. Roberts offers a student-centered, pedagogically driven approach to teaching Signals and Systems. The author has a clear understanding of the issues students face in learning the material and does a superior job of addressing these issues. The book is intended to cover a two-semester sequence in Signals and Systems for Juniors in engineering.
1 Introduction
2 Mathematical Description of Signals
3 Description and Analysis of Systems
4 The Fourier Series
5 The Fourier Transform
6 Fourier Transform Analysis of Signals and Systems
7 Sampling and the Discrete Fourier Transform
8 Correlation, Energy Spectral Density, and Power Spectral Density
9 The Laplace Transform
10 Laplace Transform Analysis of Signals and Systems
11 The z Transform
12 z-Transform Analysis of Signals and Systems
Appendix A: Useful Mathematical Relations
Appendix B: Introduction to MATLAB
Appendix C: Method of Finding Least Common Multiples
Appendix D: Convolution Properties
Appendix E: Table of Fourier Pairs
Appendix F: Table of Laplace Transform Pairs
Appendix G: Table of z Transforms
Appendix H: Complex Numbers and Complex Functions
Appendix I: Differential and Difference Equations
Appendix J: Vectors and Matrices