Rhea Section for ECE 301 Division 1, Fall 2008

Course Details

Professor: Mimi Boutin

Lecture: MWF 4:30PM in EE129

Course Website: course webpage

TA: Benjamin Brame

TA office hours in MSEE383 (no longer EE116)

M,W 3:30-4:30
Tu,Th 10:30-11:30
F 2:30-3:30

Course Announcements

Histograms for Test 1, Test 2, and Test 3:

Best of Rhea

Please post a link to the pages that you believe belong to the "best of" this course wiki. This will be used to generate a "Best of Rhea" page for all of Rhea.

Course Related Material

Exams

Final Exam Summary (Please Contribute Definitions, Explanations, Examples, Tips, Tricks, etc)
Solved Homework Problems from the Book
Post your solved practice exam no. 1 (pdf files) here.
One graded Fall 2006 practice Exam 2 waiting for more input and comments.
Another solution (scanned)
Some Exercises to get ready for the second exam
Exam 3 Information

Key Points

Key points summarizing the entire class

Table of Formulas and Properties
Mathematical explanation of Linearity and Time-invariance
Mimi's key points
What are all these symbols? (Quick reference to commonly-used symbols in class.)
A mystery about complex number: why is $e^{j 2\pi t}$ not equal to one? More precisely, why can't one say that $e^{j 2\pi t}=(e^{j 2 \pi})^t= 1^t =1$ ? Please discuss here

Homework Related Stuff

Turn in your homework on these pages.

Lecture Notes and Class Feedback

Lecture 1: Intro; Example of DT signal (text) and system (enigma machine).
Lecture 2: Example of CT signal (sound); Creating sounds in Matlab; Example of linear system.
Lecture 3: Transformation of Independent Variables
Lecture 4:
Lecture 5: Cascading Systems
Lecture 6: Causality, Stability, Time Invariance
Lecture 7:
Lecture 8:
Lecture 9:
Lecture 10:
Lecture 11:

Lecture 17: FTs and the f response, differential equations
Lecture 18
Lecture 19: TA Example Session w/ DT Fourier Transforms and inverses

Help Sessions

Content covered in the Tuesday help sessions will be posted here.

Session 1: 9/2/2008: Phasors, Energy, Power, and Geometric Series Updated
Session 2: 9/9/2008:
Session 2: 9/16/2008:

Out of class "Exercises"

Area to post questions asked of the students to figure out between lectures and the answers to the questions.

Exercise 1: 9/8/2008: Time Invariance

Non-Course Related Material

Ode To Mimi

Rhea How–Tos

How to add elements to a page
Rhea works very much like Kiwi. So if you want to learn how to edit this Rhea wiki, you can watch the Kiwi instructional video.
Comprehensive list of LaTeX commands (LaTeX is how you write the math-y stuff between "< math >" and "< /math >".)

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