ECE 101: Announcements, Winter 2008

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Most recent items listed first

FINAL EXAM
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 8am-11am
IN CSB 001

DONE!!!

March 18, 2008: Have a great Spring Break!

March 15, 2008: Slides from the Final Review Session are posted. 

Also, there were some small typos in the Solutions to P.S. #7. 
Corrected solutions are now posted.

Later on March 14, 2008: Notes from today's Discussion 
Session are now posted.  Many thanks to Eldridge for 
running such valuable sessions, as well as for making 
his excellent notes available so promtply!  

March 14, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #7 have been posted. 

Later on March 11, 2008: The Final Exam (with solutions) 
from Winter Quarter 2007 is posted. See the link on the 
site homepage.

March 11, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #6 and Lab #6 have been 
posted. 

Later on March 10, 2008: Notes from today's Discussion 
Session are now posted.

March 10, 2008: Problem Set #7 (z-transform) is posted.
It is due Friday, March 14 - please turn it in to Eldridge at the 
Discussion Session.

Note: Two typos in the solutions to P.S. #4A have been corrected.

March 7, 2008: Notes from today's Discussion Session 
are now posted.

Eldridge will hold a Final Exam Review Session on Saturday, 
March 15, in CENTER 109. It will start at 9am.

March 4, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Monday, March 3 are now posted.

The deadline for submitting your solutions to P.S.#6 and Lab #6 
has been extended to Tuesday, March 11.

February 29, 2008: P.S. #6 and Lab #6 have been posted.
They are due Thursday, March 6.
February 29, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Friday, February 29 are now posted.

February 28, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #5 and Lab #5 have been 
posted. (Check out the mystery phone numbers with a 617 area code.)

February 25, 2008: Solutions to the Midterm Exam are posted.

February 25, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Monday, February 25 are now posted.

February 22, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Friday, February 22 are now posted.

February 21, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Friday, February 15 are now posted.

February 19, 2008: P.S. #5 and Lab #5 have been posted.
They are due Thursday, February 28.

February 12, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #4B and Lab #4 have been 
posted.

THE MIDTERM EXAM IS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, IN CLASS

You are allowed to bring only one 2-sided sheet of notes. 
No other books, class notes, or calculators.

Tables of Properties and Transform Pairs for CTFS, DTFS, CTFT, and DTFT 
from the textbook will be provided.

February 12, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #4B and Lab #4 have been 
posted.

February 11, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Monday, February 11 are now posted.

February 11, 2008: Notes from the Midterm Review Session
conducted by Eldridge on Saturday, February 9 are now posted. 
See the flashing link on the course homepage.

February 8, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Session on
Friday, February 8 are now posted.

February 6, 2008:  Sample Midterm Exams with solutions have been 
posted behind the link "Practice Exams" on the course homepage. Enjoy!

February 5, 2008:  Even more good stuff. Solutions to P.S.#3B and 
Lab #3 are posted. The ECE 101 Professor thanks you for rescuing him.
By the way, it was discovered that the kidnappers were affiliated 
with a rogue outfit on campus -- the Institute for Nonlinear Science...

February 4, 2008:  More good stuff. Notes from the Discussion 
Session on Monday, February 4 are now posted.

February 2, 2008:  Notes from the Discussion Session on
Friday, February 1 are now posted.

February 1, 2008:  Assignment #4 has been posted. 

P.S. #4A contains review problems on Continuous-Time Fourier Transform
(CTFT), with solutions. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IN YOUR ANSWERS.
Be sure you feel comfortable solving problems of this kind, though.

P.S. #4B contains problems on Discrete-Time Fourier Transform (DTFT).
Please hand in your answers on Tuesday, February 12.
Assignment #4 has been posted.

Lab #4 is an application of the important Modulation Property of the
Fourier Transform, and leads nicely to a discussion of Amplitude 
Modulation. Please hand in your lab reports on Tuesday, February 12.
 
January 29, 2008:Solutions to P.S. #2 and Lab #2 have been 
posted.

January 28, 2008: Notes from the Discussion Sessions on 
Friday, January 25 and Monday, January 28 have now been posted. 
 
January 24, 2008: 

THE DATE OF THE MIDTERM EXAM IS NOW THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14.

Assignment #3 has been posted. 

P.S. #3A contains review problems on Continuous-Time Fourier Series 
(CTFS), with solutions. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAND IN YOUR ANSWERS.
Be sure you feel comfortable solving problems of this kind, though.

P.S. #3B contains problems on Discrete-Time Fourier Series (DTFS).
Please hand in your answers on Tuesday, February 5.

Lab #3 is an application of DT convolution to image de-blurring. 
Please hand in your lab reports on Tuesday, February 5.
 
January 18, 2008: Notes from the first 3 Discussion Sessions have
now been posted. Enjoy the long weekend - and the notes. You'll have 
an extra day to study them. Very convenient.
 
January 18, 2008: Discussion session notes are going to be posted. 
They can be accessed via the "Discussion Session Notes" link on the main 
webpage for the course.  Let's thank Eldridge for making these available!
 
January 17, 2008: Solutions to P.S. #1 and Lab #1 have been posted.

The deadline for submitting your solutions to P.S.#2 and Lab#2 has been 
moved to Tuesday, January 29.
 
January 14, 2008: If you are having trouble loading the sound file into 
MATLAB, be sure that you have copied the file into your MATLAB directory. 
Also, the following example command will load a file 'message1.ascii' into 
your workspace:

			load -ascii 'message1.ascii';

If you are having dynamic range problems in playing the audio signal, try
normalizing the samples by their maximum magnitude. You can also try using 
the soundsc command, if it is available in the version of MATLAB you are 
using. For example, assuming the audio signal was created with a sampling 
frequency of 8000 Hz, the following should play it back properly:

				soundsc(message1,8000);



January 11, 2008: Some sample problems from Chapter 1, along with a link to
their solutions, are posted here. They may be helpful to you.

 
January 4, 2008:  Welcome to the Winter Quarter 2008 and ECE 101! 

The first lecture will take place on Tuesday, January 8, 9:30am-10:50am 
in Cognitive Sciences Building (CSB), Room 001. 

The first discussion session will be held Friday, January 11, 1:00pm-1:50pm 
in Warren Lecture Hall (WLH) 2111, led by the course TA,  Eldridge Alcantara.


For those of you wishing to get a head start on the homework, the first few
assignments - Problem Set #0 (math review), Problem Set #1 and Lab #1, 
and Problem Set #2 and Lab #2 - are posted. You can access these and other 
homework assignments from the Homework Assignments link on the main page 
of the course website. 

The solutions for Problem Set #0 are also posted. You can access these 
and other homework solutions from the Homework Solutions link on the main  
page of the course website. 

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