Signal Processing (Fall 2025)
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Announcements
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Final Exam: The final exam is from 1:30 to 4:30 PM on Friday, December 19 at the Johnson Track. See the Final Exam Information page. There will be a final exam review in 4-370 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM on Thursday, December 11. Following this, there will be an office hour from 4:00 to 5:00 PM that same day.
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End-of-term office hours: We'll hold office hours from 4:00 to 5:00 PM on Tuesday, December 9. We'll also hold office hours in the evenings next week.
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 |
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| 1 | Sep 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 |
| 2 | Sep 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 |
| 3 | Sep 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 |
| 4 | Sep 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 |
| 5 | Sep 30 Quiz 1 (no lecture) | Sep 30 Quiz 1 (no recitation) | Oct 2 Systems Answers / Handout | Oct 2 Systems Answers / Handout | HW5 |
| 6 | Oct 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 |
| 7 | Oct 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 |
| 8 | Oct 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 |
| 9 | Oct 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 |
| 10 | Nov 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 |
| 11 | Nov 11 Veterans Day (no lecture) | Nov 11 Veterans Day (no recitation) | Nov 13 2D Fourier Transforms 1 Answers / Handout | Nov 13 2D Fourier Transforms Answers / Handout | HW11 |
| 12 | Nov 18 2D Fourier Transforms 2 Answers / Handout | Nov 18 2D Convolution Answers / Handout | Nov 20 Inverse Filtering Answers / Handout | Nov 20 Filtering Images Answers / Handout | HW12 |
| 13 | Nov 25 Compression Answers / Handout | Nov 25 Discrete Cosine Transform Answers / Handout | Nov 27 Thanksgiving (no lecture) | Nov 27 Thanksgiving (no recitation) | No HW Final Info |
| 14 | Dec 2 MRI Answers / Handout | Dec 2 Practice Problems 1 Answers / Handout | Dec 4 Synthetic Aperture Optics Answers / Handout | Dec 4 Practice Problems 2 Answers / Handout | No HW Survey |
| 15 | Dec 9 Wrap Up | Dec 9 Practice Problems 3 | Dec 11 Final Exam Review (no lecture) | Dec 11 Final Exam Review (no recitation) | No HW |