This book is the first complete text in the BookWare Companion Series™ to thoroughly integrate the use of the MATLAB® computing environment into the standard sequence of courses taken by electrical engineering majors. Use of this text makes it possible to focus on the problems being solved rather than on the programming necessary to obtain a solution. The authors utilize a computer-biased approach in which computer solutions and theory are viewed as mutually reinforcing rather than as an either/or proposition. Additionally, they adhere to the axiom that one learns by doing rather than by listening - this text features more than 100 examples, 200 exercises, and 250 MATLAB® scripts that directly support the authors' flexible treatment of discrete and continuous time. This Updated Printing revises the book and code examples (available for downloading from the Brooks/Cole Web Site) to MATLAB® V5.

Table of Contents

A BC NOTE / PREFACE
1. SIGNALS AND SEQUENCES
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement Problems / Tables / Definitions, Techniques, and C onnections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
2. CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Tables / Definitions, T echniques, and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / A nswers
3. LAPLACE TRANSFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers / Tables
4. FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
RETROSPECTIVE: CHAPTERS 2, 3, AND 4
5. CONTINUOUS-TIME FOURIER SERIES AND TRANSFORMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers / Tables
6. STATE-SPACE TOPICS FOR CONTINUOUS SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
RETROSPECTIVE: CONTINUOUS-TIME SYSTEMS (CHAPTERS 2-6)
7. DISCRETE SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
8. Z-TRANSFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers / Tables
9. FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF DISCRETE SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
RETROSPECTIVE: CHAPTERS 7, 8, AND 9
10. DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
11. STATE-SPACE TOPICS FOR DISCRETE SYSTEMS
Preview / Basic Concepts and Illustrative Problems / Solved Examples and MATLAB® Applications / Reinforcement and Exploration Problems / Definitions, Techniques , and Connections / MATLAB® Functions Used / Annotated Bibliography / Answers
RETROSPECTIVE: DISCRETE SYSTEMS (CHAPTERS 7-11) / APPENDIX A: MATLAB®: AN OVERVI EW / APPENDIX B: USEFUL FORMULAE AND DEFINITIONS / INDEX