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EC6303 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
[QUESTION BANK]
PART A :
UNIT I
1. For the signal shown in Fig. 1, find x (2t + 3).

2. Sketch the following signals

i)x(t)=(t+3)
ii)x(t)=-2r(t)
3. When the system said to be memory less? Give example.
4. Define continuous time complex exponential signal.
5. Define unit impulse and unit step signal.
6. State the relationship between step, ramp and delta function (CT).
7. Define even and odd signal?
8. Determine whether the following signal is energy or power? x(t) = e-2t u(t)
9. Check whether the following system is static/dynamic and also causal/non causal.
y(n)=x(2n)
10. What are the classification signals and systems?
11. What are the representations of signal?
12. Verify whether the system described by the equation is linear and time invariant
y(t)=x(t2)?
13. Find the fundamental period of the given signal x(n)=sin((6n/7)+1).
14. Check whether the discrete time signal sin3n is periodic.
15. Define a random signal.
16. Determine the power and RMS value of the following signals x(t)=10cos5t cos10t.
17. Determine whether the following signal is energy or power? x(n) = u(n)
18. Check whether the following system is linear or not y(n)=Ax(n)+B.
19. State the BIBO criterion for stability.
20. Check for the stability of the system impulse function h(n)=2nu(n).
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UNIT - II
1. What are the Drichlets conditions of Fourier series?
2. State convolution property of Fourier transforms.
3. Find the Laplace transform of x(t)=e-at u(t).
4. Give two properties of Continuous Time Fourier Transform.
5. Give the synthesis and analysis equation of continuous time Fourier transform.
6. Define the region of convergence of the Laplace transform?
7. State the frequency shift property of Fourier transforms.
8. States the time scaling property of Laplace transform.
9. What is the Fourier transform of a DC signal of amplitude 1?
10. State Parsevals power theorem.
11. What is Region of convergence (ROC)?
12. What is the relationship between Fourier and Laplace transform?
13. Define transform function.
14. State initial value theorem.
15. Find the fourier transform of x(t)=(t).
16. Obtain the Laplace transform of ramp function.
17. Find the Fourier transform of signum function.
18. What is the Laplace transform of the function x(t)=u(t)-u(t-2)?
19. What is the Laplace transform of x(t)=
sint u(t).
20. State the time shifting property of Laplace transforms.
UNIT III
1. List and draw the basic elements for the block diagram representation of the continuous
time systems.
2. Check the causality of the system with impulse response h(t)=e-t u(t).
3. What is the transfer function of the following systems?

4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

An ideal integrator

An ideal delay of T seconds

State the convolution integral for the continuous time LTI system.
What is the impulse response of two LTI system connected in parallel?
What is the condition for an LTI system to be stable?
The impulse response of the LTI CT system is given by h(t)=e-t u(t). Determine the
transfer function and check whether the system is causal and stable.
Mention the advantages of direct form-II structure over direct form I structure.

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9. Define complete response.

10. Give 4 steps to compute convolution integral
11. List the property of convolution integral.
12. State commutative property of convolution.
13. State the associative property of convolution.
14. State distributive property of convolution.
15. Find the convolution of x1(t) and x2(t) for the following signal
x1(t)=r(t); x2(t)= u(t)
16. Determine the system transfer function of the given differential equation
+6

+6y(t)= 3

+5x(t)

17. Determine impulse response of the given differential equation

+2y(t)=x(t)

18. Realize the systems using direct form II structure H(s)=

19. Realize the system described by following differential equation in direct form I
+4

+8y(t)= 5

+7x(t)

20. Write the Nth order differential equation.

21. Define impulse response of a continuous time system.
22. Determine the response of the system with impulse response h(t) = t u(t) for the input
x(t) = u(t).
23. Check whether the causal system with transfer function H(s) =

is stable.

UNIT - IV
1. Define sampling theorem.
2. What do you mean by Nyquist rate of sampling?
3. What is an anti-aliasing filter?
4. Define aliasing effect.
5. Define DTFT and inverse DTFT.
6. State the convolution property of the z-transform.
7. Determine the convolution of the signals x(n)={2,-1,3,2} and h(n)={1,-1,1,1}.
8. Prove the time shifting property of discrete time Fourier transform.
9. State the Parsevals relation for discrete time aperiodic signals.
10. What is the z-transform of x(n)=an u(n).
11. State the condition for the existence of DTFT for aperiodic sequence x(n).
12. Define one sided and two sided z- transform.
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13. Define ROC.

14. Find the z transform of x(n)={1,2,3,4}.
15. A signal x(t)=sinc(150 ) is sampled at a rate of (a)100Hz (b)200Hz (c)300Hz. For
each of these three cases explain if you can recover the signal x(t) from the sampled
signal.
16. For an analog signal x(t)=3cos50
17. Obtain DTFT of unit step u(n).

+10sin300

18. Find the initial value of given z- transform

cos100

.calculate Nyquist rate.

19. Find z- transform of x(n)=u(n-k)

20. What are the main conditions to be satisfied to avoid aliasing?
21. Write analysis and synthesis equation of DTFT.

UNIT V

1.
2.
3.
4.

In the discrete time system described by the difference equation y(n)=x(-n) causal.
Define system function.
Find the overall impulse response h1(n)=u(n) and h2(n)=(n)+2(n-1) are in series.
Using Z- transform find whether the system is stable
+

<

<3

5. Write the condition for LTI system to be causal and stable.

6. Define recursive and non-recursive system.
7. Write the difference equation for the non-recursive system.
8. Define convolution sum.
9. Write the steps to compute the convolution sum.
10. Mention the properties of convolution sum.
11. Consider an LTI system with impulse response h(n)=(n-p) for an input x(n).Find Y(ej).
12. Find the system function for the given difference equation y(n)=0.5y(n-1)+x(n).
13. Find the frequency response of y(n)=0.5y(n-1)+x(n)+2x(n-1)+x(n-3)
14. Convolve the two sequences x(n)={1,2,3}and h(n)={5,4,6,2}.
15. Obtain the convolution of x(n)* (n).
16. Check whether system with system function H(z)=

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< is causal and stable.

17. What are the blocks required to draw the block diagram representation of DT system.
18. Define forced response and natural response.
19. Given the difference equation y(n)- y(n-1)=x(n). Draw the block diagram

using

direct form II structure.

20. What is the total response of the system when the two impulse responses are connected
in cascade and parallel?
PART B:
UNIT I
1. a) Define an energy and power signal.
(4)
b) Determine whether the following signals are energy or power and calculate their
energy and power.
i) x(n) = (1/2)nu(n)
(4)
ii) x(t) = rect(t/To)
(4)
iii) x(t) = cos2(t)
(4)
2. a) Define unit step, ramp, pulse, impulse and exponential signals. Obtain the relationship
between the unit step and unit ramp function.
(10)
b) Find the fundamental period T of the signal
x(n)=cos(n/2)-sin(n/8)+3cos(n/4+/3)
(6)
3. a)write about the elementary continuous time signal in detail.
b) Determine the power and RMS value of the following signals.
i) x1(t)=5cos(50t+/3)
ii) x2(t)= 20cos50tcos15t
4. a)Determine whether the following systems are linear or non-linear
i)

+3ty(t) = t2x(t)

ii) y(n)=2x(n)+

(8)

b) Determine whether the following systems are time variant 0r time -invariant.
i) y(t)=tx(t)
ii)y(n)=x(2n)
(8)
5. Determine whether the systems described by the following input-output equations are
linear, dynamic, causal and time variant.
i) y1(t)=x(t-3)+(3-t)
ii) y2(t)=
iii) y1(n)=nx(n)+bx2(n)
iv) Even{x(n-1)}
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6. Determine the following signals are energy or power signals

i)x(n)= )n u(n)
ii)x(n)=sin(n/3)

(16)

7. a) Determine whether the following signal is periodic. If periodic , determine the

fundamental period:
X(t)=3cost+4cos(t/2)
X(t)=cos60t+sin50t
(8)
b) Give the equation and draw the waveform of discrete time real and complex exponential
signals.
(8)

8. (i) Find whether the signal x(t) = 2cos(10t+1)-sin(4t-1) is Periodic or not.

(ii) Find
(n-2)
(iii) List the Properties of unit impulse function.
(iv) Check whether the following signal is energy or power signal.
x(n)= u(n)

(4)
(3)
(4)
(5)

9. i) Determine whether the following system is linear, time invariant, causal, stable and static
1. y(n) = x2(n)
2. y(n) = x(-n)
(10)
ii) Define LTI system. List the properties of LTI system and explain
(6)
10. A discrete time signal is given by x(n)={1,1,1,1,2}
Sketch the following signals
a)x(n-2) b)x(n+1) c)x(3-n) d)x(n)u(n-1) e)x(n-1)(n-1) f)Even samples of x(n)
g)odd samples of x(n)
UNIT - II
1. (i) Find the trigonometric fourier series for the periodic signal x(t) shown in fig.,

(16)

2. (i) Find the fourier transform of x(t)= e-ltl for -1

, 0 otherwise.
(ii) Find the Laplace transform for (i) x(t) = u(t-2) (ii) x(t) = t2e-2t u(t)

(8)
(8)

3. Explain and prove the properties of Laplace transform

(16)

4. a) Compute the Laplace transform of x(t)=e-b|t| of the cases of b<0 and b>0.

(10)

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b) State and prove Parsevals theorem of Fourier transform.

(6)
5. a) (i). Determine the fourier series representation of the half wave rectifier output. (10)

b) Write the properties of ROC of Laplace transform.

(6)
6. a) prove the scaling and time shifting properties of Laplace transform.
(8)
-at
b) Determine the Laplace transform of x(t)= e cost u(t).
(8)
7.a) Find the Fourier transform of rectangular pulse. Sketch the signal and its Fourier
transform (8)
b) Find the Fourier transform of a triangular pulse.
(8)
8. i) State Dirichlets conditions. Also explain its importance.
(6)
ii) Obtain the exponential fourier series of the waveform.
(10)

9. a) Find the Laplace transform of the signal x(t)= e-at sint.

b) Find the inverse Fourier transform of the rectangular spectrum give by
X (j) =

(8)

(8)

10. a)Find the inverse Laplace transform of the following

i) X(s) =

(8)

ii) X(s) =

(8)

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UNIT - III
.
1. Find the complete response of the system described by the differential equation
+

+8y(t)=

+2x(t). When the input signal x(t)= e-tu(t). The initial

conditions are y(0+) =2,

2. Realize H(s) =

=3.

(16)

using parallel realization. (10)

3. For the continuous time LTI system described by the differential equation , (16)
+

+2y(t)=

+x(t). Find

Impulse response of the system.

The output of the system for the input signal x(t)= e-3tu(t). (use Fourier transform)
4. Find the convolution of the signal: x1(t) = e-atu(t), x2(t)= e-btu(t). use Fourier
transform(16)
5. Find the impulse and the step response of the system H(s)=

(16)

-2t

6. Find the convolution of the signal: x1(t)= e u(t); x2(t)= u(t+2). (16)
7. The differential equation of the system is given by
y(0+)=3,

+2y(t)=x(t) with

=-5. Determine (i)System function (ii)Impulse response (iii) Output of

the system for x(t)=2u(t). (16)

8. Consider the causal LTI system with frequency response H(j)=

. For a particular

input x(t) this system produces output y(t)= e-3tu(t)- e-4tu(t). Determine x(t).
9. Find the system response y(t) for a system given below to an input x(t)= e-3tu(t) and
H(s)=

(10)

10. For the continuous time LTI system described by the differential equation ,
+

+2y(t)=

+2x(t). Determine

Transfer function of the system

Impulse response of the system

The output of the system for the input signal x(t)=4 e-3tu(t).(16)
11. For an LTI system with unit impulse response h(t)= e-2tu(t). Determine the output to
the input x(t)= e-tu(t).(10)
12. Realize the system in cascade form.(16)
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13. The input x (t) and output y(t) for a system satisfy the differential equation(16)
+

+2y(t)= x(t)

Draw direct form, cascade form and parallel form representation of the system
14. For the continuous time LTI system described by the differential equation , (16)
+

+3y(t)=

+2x(t). Using Laplace transform, find

Impulse response of the system.

System Transfer function

Frequency response
12. Find step response of the system whose impulse response is given as
h(t) = u(t+1) u(t-1)(6)
13. Find the response of the RC low pass system for the step input (10)
14. Explain properties of convolution integral. (6)
15. Obtain direct form I realization of (6)
+

+4y(t)=

UNIT IV
1. a) Determine the z transform of x(n)=an cos(on) u(n).
forROCZ>1.

b) Determine the inverse z transform of X(z) =

2. a) State and prove the time shift and frequency shift property of DTFT.
b) Determine the DTFT of ( )n u(n). Plot the spectrum.
3. a)Find the Fourier transform of

4.
5.

6.
7.

b) Explain any four properties of DTFT.

a)Find the z- transform of the given signal and find ROC: x(n)=[sin(on)]u(n).
b) Describe the sampling operation and explain how aliasing error can be prevented.
a) Determine the Nyquist sampling rate, Nyquist sampling interval for the signal
x(t)=sinc2(200t).
b) Determine the z-transform of the signal x(n)= sino u(n).
a) State and prove time shifting property of discrete time Fourier transform.
b) State and prove convolution property of z-transform
Determine the z-transform and sketch the pole zero plot with the ROC for each of the
following signals
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(b) x(n) = (0.5)n u(n) - (1/3)n u(n-1)

8. Find the z- transform and ROC of x(n)=an;a<1, x(n)=(0.5)n u(-n)
9. Explain the properties of Z- transform.
10. Find the Fourier transform of x(n)=sin

and x(n)=cos

UNIT V
1. Find the output sequence y(n) of the system describe by the equation
for the input sequence x(n)=u(n).
2. An LTI system is represented by difference equation
analysis using Z.
i) Find the system function H(z).
ii) Draw and obtain pole-zero plot.
ii) Find h(n) if the system is causal
3. Find the output of system whose input-output is related by the difference equation
for the step input.
4. Find the convolution sum of x(n)=r(n) and h(n)=u(n) using graphical method.
5. Find the impulse and step response of the following system

6. Obtain the direct forms, cascade and parallel form realization of the following system

7. Input to causal LTI system is x(n)=u(-n-1)+

u(n).The Z-transform of system output is

. Determine H (z).
8. Determine the z-transform of sequence x(n)=4ncos

u(-n-1).Sketch the pole-zero

plot and indicate ROC.

9. Find the convolution of x(n)={1,2,3,4,5} with h(n)={1,2,3,3,2,1}.
10. Obtain the direct forms, cascade and parallel form realization of the discrete time system
given by the difference equation

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