Fall 2002
Previous Announcements
1. Textbook now available from Cal Student Store (posted 9/6)
The Cal Student Store is now selling photocopies of the textbook
("readers") for $38.00 each. They were unable to obtain any more copies
of the text from the publisher.
The actual book is still available from Internet retailers. At last check,
it was still in stock at www.bn.com. It
is not in stock at www.amazon.com.
2. Student Version of MATLAB (revised 9/2)
We have found out that the current Student Version of MATLAB does not
contain all of the functions (.m files) used in class. Prof. Kahn
apologizes for not realizing this sooner! Some of the examples worked
in the textbook use functions from the Control Toolbox and the
Signal Processing Toolbox, which cost $29 each. If you want to work
all of these examples, you should purchase these toolboxes or run
MATLAB on the EECS instructional computers.
We are pretty sure that in order to work the problems you are required
to hand in, you only need four functions that are not in the Student
Version of MATLAB. If you would like to get copies of these, please
send e-mail to Prof. Kahn.
3. Class enrollment (posted 9/5)
On September 5, 6 students were
removed from the class enrollment list because
they had not attended class during the two previous
meetings on 8/28 and 9/4. As of September 6, there
should be about 12 students still on the waiting list.
4. Turning in homework (posted 9/6)
Starting with homework 2, all assigments shall be turned in
at the white box labeled EE120, located near 267 Cory. Unless otherwise
stated, homework should be turned in by the start of class on the due date.
5. Discussion section 102 (posted 8/28)
This section has been moved to
Tuesday 2-3pm, 534 Davis .
6. Obtaining the textbook (revised 8/30)
Textbooks (new and possibly used) can be obtained from Internet retailers,
including www.bookplace.co.uk,
www.amazon.com,
www.bn.com.
The Cal Student Store has informed us that they cannot buy any more copies
of the text from the publisher, and they are considering making photocopies
of the text for sale (readers). As they have not yet informed us when the
readers might be ready, it is recommended that you buy the book online.
7. Homework 1 (posted 8/29)
In order to avoid falling behind and incurring problems at
midterm time, Homework 1 will still be due on
Wednesday September 4. A scanned copy of the problems from Chapter 1 is
available here.
Almost all of the problems on Homework 1 are review
from EECS 20 or can be done based on concepts discussed in class. You may
need two additional pieces of information:
1. A discrete time impulse delta[n] is defined as:
delta[n] = 1 for n = 0 and delta[n] = 0 for n ~=0.
2. You need to know how to combine the operations of time shifting and time
scaling. A scanned copy of
pp. 26-29 from the text
explains this.
8. Extension on Homework #5 (posted 9/26)
Homework #5 is now due by 5PM on October 4. Solutions will be available
in front of 514 Cory.
9. Midterm Review Session (posted 9/27)
There will be a midterm review session at 5 PM on Sunday October 6th
in 277 Cory.
10. Make-up discussion section (posted 10/7)
Tuesday October 8 there will be a make-up discussion section for last weeks
Friday section. It will be in 293 Cory from 11AM - 12 PM.
11. Midterm Histogram (posted 10/13)
Midterm 1 Histogram
12. Homeworks 2 - 5 (posted 10/17)
Graded homeworks can be picked up during TA office hours in 297 Cory
(the TA office).
13. Homework 7 Solution (posted 10/24)
A corrected solution to problem 9 of homework 7 can be found
here.
14. Review Session for Midterm 2 (posted 10/30)
There will be a review session Friday 11/8 at 11 AM in
390 Hearst Mining.
15. Homework 9 extended to 11/8 11AM (posted 11/4)
Turn in Homework 9 by 11 AM on Friday November 8.
16. Textbook errata updated (posted 10/19)
Specifically MATLAB Section, pages 386 and 387.