Errata for Signals and Systems using MATLAB

by Luis F. Chaparro
Chapter 0 From the Ground Up!
pp. 18, line 3 from top of the page should read Different from accentuating...
pp. 22, equation (0.17) (ii) Im[z] = 0.5j[z z ]
pp. 43, Maple is not the current interface for symbolic MATLAB
pp. 58, Problem 0.9 the sum defining S1 should be

nn1

n=0

pp. 58, Problem 0.13, the sine trigonometric identity should read
sin( + ) = sin() cos() + sin() cos()
Chapter 2 Continuous-time Systems
pp. 122, in solution of Example 2.3, end of second paragraph should read: A diode is an example of
a nonlinear resistor: its voltage-current relation is nonlinear.
pp. 157, Problem 2.2, the output x(t) should be +0.5 when v(t) > 0.5, and 0.5 when v(t) < 0.5 as
shown by Fig. 2.20.
pp. 159, Problem 2.5(b), the value after Is should read kT /q = 0.026.
pp. 164, Problem 2.19(a), equation defining p(t) is missing a final square parenthesis ].
Chapter 3 The Laplace Transform
pp. 174, the first sentence on top of this page should read and the term |ejt | = 1
pp. 178, change Heaviside to heaviside and Dirac to dirac in the MATLAB script for Example
3.2.
pp. 188, before equation (3.11) it should read For a signal f (t) with Laplace transform F (s) the
one-sided...
pp. 199, in table 3.2 the integral property should show dt0 in the integral
pp. 219, at the end of the last remark before Example 3.23 the equations should be If x(t) = u(t) ...
h(t) = ds(t)/dt and If x(t) = r(t) ... h(t) = d2 (t)/dt2 = ds(t)/dt.
pp. 227, Problem 3.7, there is an extra parenthesis 0 )0 in numerator of Y (s).
Chapter 4 Frequency Analysis: The Fourier Series
pp. 253, in Example 4.4 y(t) should be y(t) = B + A cos(0 t /2)
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 pp. 254, Fig. 4.2, the phase for the sine or Yk should be /2 at 0 and /2 at 0 .
pp. 263, the terms in parenthesis before equation (4.23) should read (T0 = 2, 0 = , the period and
the fundamental frequency are equal to ones for y(t))
pp. 275, the caption of Fig. 4.14 should read: (a) input x( ) ...
pp. 292, Problem 4.9(a) it should read has as period the signal...
pp. 295, Problem 4.20, the number of terms of the Fourier series should be 2N + 1 so as to include the
dc component.
pp. 295, Problem 4.22, in Figure 4.20 the Problem reference should be 4.22 instead of 4.23.
pp. 296, Problem 4.23, the value of T0 should be 0.5.
Chapter 5 Frequency Analysis: The Fourier Transform

pp. 311, in the solution of Example 5.5 the third sentence should read We found before, for = 1,
...
pp. 318, the sentence before Example 5.8 should read ... a phase of /2 at frequencies 0 . (sign
of phase needs to be reversed)
pp. 322, the equations at bottom of page are missing 1/(2) in front of the integrals.
pp. 327, last sentence at bottom of page should read ... and 0 its fundamental frequency. (get rid
of are).
pp. 344, the sentence after the second equation should read which is proportional to the the power
or the energy of the signal in 0 0.5. (0.5 is missing).
pp. 345, the last sentence in Example 5.19 should read Let = 0 , use the evenness of () to get...
Chapter 6 Application to Control and Communications

pp. 382, in Figure 6.15 the spectra are swapped: the one titled |Z()| should be changed to |Y ()|,
and the one titled |Y ()| should be changed to |Z()|.
pp. 400, in the top sentence, in the seventh line it should read where 0 n N 1 and N
corresponds ...
pp. 411, Problem 6.7, signs are missing in numerator and denominator of T (s)

Chapter 7 Sampling Theory

pp. 438, in the blocked text at the bottom of the page the carrier is missing the variable t.

Chapter 9 The Z-transform

pp. 517, at the bottom of the page the reference to equation (9.40) is wrong, it should be to (9 .7).

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 pp. 522, at beginning of Section 9.4.1 the definition of h4 [n] should be h4 [n] = h1 [n]h3 [n]
pp. 535, at the bottom of the page the absolutely summable definition should use the < symbol,
instead of .
pp. 543, in geometric summation towards the end of the page, change k to n as dummy variable.

Chapter 10 Fourier Analysis of Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

pp. 592, figure numbers at bottom of the page should be 10.6(a) and 10.6(c).
pp. 619, right before equation (10.54) it should read ... a nonunits normalized scale of [02(N 1)/N ]
...
pp. 632, Problem 10.7, the frequency response H(ej ) is zero for in /2 (minus sign
missing) and /2

Chapter 11 Introduction to the Design of Discrete Filters

pp. 658, change s to st in equations (11.27) and (11.28) in the Butterworth design blocked text.
pp. 661, in the first remark at the bottom of the page, it is the upper equation (11.28) that is used to
compute N .
pp. 665, in the paragraph at the bottom of the page, instead of where each H4i ... it should be where
each Hi ...
pp. 668, in Example 11.9 the value of min = 9dB instead of 6 dB
pp. 686, the last paragraph of Example 11.12 should read The magnitude response of the filter...
(omit and the phase)
pp. 701, insert question mark at the end of Problems 11.2(b) and (c)

Chapter 12 Applications of Discrete-time Signals and Systems

pp. 725, in the sentence after equation (12.15) change ... then computing its Z-transform. into ...
then computing the Z-transform of f (nTs ).
pp. 740, last sentence in the page should be ..., and mT t (m + 1)T

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