Signal Processing (Fall 2025)

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  • Quiz 2: Scores are posted on this page. If you're concerned about your performance in the course for any reason or just want to talk someone, we're here for you. We can make a plan for the rest of the term. (You can talk to us in person or send an e-mail to sigproc-instructors@mit.edu.)

  • Office Hours: Office hours on Monday, Nov. 10 and Tuesday, Nov. 11 are canceled.

  • Final Exam: Our final exam has been scheduled for Friday, Dec. 19 (1:30 PM to 4:30 PM) at the Johnson Track.

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM in 3-270
Recitations: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:00 PM in 4-237 or 4-370

Office Hours:

  • Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00 PM in 26-204
  • Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 PM in 26-204

Tentative Calendar: Details may change as the semester proceeds.

Week Lecture A
Tuesday
Recitation A
Tuesday
Lecture B
Thursday
Recitation B
Thursday
Homework
1Sep 2
Registration Day
(no lecture)
Sep 2
Registration Day
(no recitation)
Sep 4
Signal Processing
Answers / Handout  
Sep 4
Fourier Series (Trig.)
Answers / Handout  
HW1
2Sep 9
Sinusoids and Series
Answers / Handout  
Sep 9
Sinusoids and Series
Answers / Handout  
Sep 11
Continuous-Time Fourier Series
Answers / Handout  
Sep 11
Fourier Series (Exp.)
Answers / Handout  
HW2
3Sep 16
Sampling and Aliasing
Answers / Handout  
Sep 16
Sampling and Aliasing
Answers / Handout  
Sep 18
Discrete-Time Fourier Series
Answers / Handout  
Sep 18
Discrete-Time Fourier Series
Answers / Handout  
HW3
4Sep 23
Continuous-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Sep 23
Continuous-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Sep 25
Discrete-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Sep 25
Discrete-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
No HW
Quiz Info
5Sep 30
Quiz 1
(no lecture)
Sep 30
Quiz 1
(no recitation)
Oct 2
Systems
Answers / Handout  
Oct 2
Systems
Answers / Handout  
HW5
6Oct 7
Unit-Sample Response and Convolution
Answers / Handout  
Oct 7
Superposition and Convolution
Answers / Handout  
Oct 9
Frequency Response and Filtering
Answers / Handout  
Oct 9
Convolution and Filtering
Answers / Handout  
HW6
7Oct 14
Communication Systems
Answers / Handout  
Oct 14
Communication Systems
Answers / Handout  
Oct 16
Discrete Fourier Transform 1
Answers / Handout  
Oct 16
Discrete Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
HW7
8Oct 21
Discrete Fourier Transform 2
Answers / Handout  
Oct 21
Circular Convolution
Answers / Handout  
Oct 23
Fast Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Oct 23
Fast Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
HW8
9Oct 28
Short-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Oct 28
Short-Time Fourier Transform
Answers / Handout  
Oct 30
Speech
Answers / Handout  
Oct 30
Quiz 2 Review
Answers / Handout  
No HW
Quiz Info
10Nov 4
Quiz 2
(no lecture)
Nov 4
Quiz 2
(no recitation)
Nov 6
Music Applications
Answers / Handout  
Nov 6
Quiz 2 Retrospective
Answers / Handout  
HW10
11Nov 11
Veterans Day
(no lecture)
Nov 11
Veterans Day
(no recitation)
Nov 13
2D Fourier Transforms 1
Nov 13
2D Fourier Transforms
HW11
12Nov 18
2D Fourier Transforms 2
Nov 18
2D Convolution
Nov 20
Inverse Filtering
Nov 20
Filtering Images
HW12
13Nov 25
Compression
Nov 25
Discrete Cosine Transform
Nov 27
Thanksgiving
(no lecture)
Nov 27
Thanksgiving
(no recitation)
No HW
Final Info
14Dec 2
MRI
Dec 2
Practice Problems 1
Dec 4
TBD
Dec 4
Practice Problems 2
No HW
15Dec 9
Wrap Up
Dec 9
Practice Problems 3
Dec 11
Study Period
(no lecture)
Dec 11
Study Period
(no recitation)
No HW