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Give examples of continuous-time signals that are band-limited. (Justify your claim that they are band-limited.)
 
Give examples of continuous-time signals that are band-limited. (Justify your claim that they are band-limited.)
 
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<math> \x(t) = sin(t)<\math>.
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<math>x(t) = sin(t) </math>.
<math> \x(t) = cos(t)<\math>.
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<math>x(t) = cos(t) </math>.
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:<span style="color:purple"> Instructor's comment: Yes, pure frequencies signals such as sine and cosine are band-limited. Can you justify your answer? -pm </span>
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By nature of the Fourier Transform, band limited signals
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(those whose frequency response = 0 outside of an arbitrary window, signals which are not one or two sided in the frequency domain)
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can only be constructed from signals which may have a nonzero component at ANY point in time (-inf,inf).
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Examples of such signals:
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Pure frequencies <math>sin(t) , cos(t) </math>
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Constants <math> x(t) = 1 </math>
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Sincs
  
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Trains?
  
  
 
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Practice Question on "Digital Signal Processing"

Topic: Nyquist Theorem and Sampling


Question

Give examples of continuous-time signals that are band-limited. (Justify your claim that they are band-limited.)


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Answer 1

(From an email written by a student.)

I am not sure what else could be band-limited other than the sinc function and pure-frequencies. Can you please give us some more examples?

Instructor's comment: One way to come up with new band-limited signals is to transform a known band-limited signal. For example, do you know a transformation that will simply change the amplitude of the Fourier transform? Or how about a transformation that would simply shift the frequencies of the Fourier transform? Another way to obtain new band-limited signal is to combine band-limited signals into a well chosen function. For example, what happens if you take a linear combination of band-limited signals? Or what if you multiply two band-limited signals? -pm

Answer 2

$ x(t) = sin(t) $.

$ x(t) = cos(t) $.

Instructor's comment: Yes, pure frequencies signals such as sine and cosine are band-limited. Can you justify your answer? -pm

Answer 3

By nature of the Fourier Transform, band limited signals

(those whose frequency response = 0 outside of an arbitrary window, signals which are not one or two sided in the frequency domain)

can only be constructed from signals which may have a nonzero component at ANY point in time (-inf,inf).

Examples of such signals:


Pure frequencies $ sin(t) , cos(t) $

Constants $ x(t) = 1 $

Sincs

Trains?



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