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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering: Important Signals

This document discusses important electrical signals including sinusoids, complex exponentials, unit steps, and pulses. It also covers constructing and deconstructing signals by representing them as sums or differences of simpler signals using concepts like signal delay and signal superposition.

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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering: Important Signals

This document discusses important electrical signals including sinusoids, complex exponentials, unit steps, and pulses. It also covers constructing and deconstructing signals by representing them as sums or differences of simpler signals using concepts like signal delay and signal superposition.

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Fundamentals of

Electrical Engineering
Important Signals

Sinusoids and related signals


Pulse-like signals
Constructing/deconstructing signals

Sinusoid
A sin(2 f0t+ )
A

T/2

3T/2

Complex Exponential
s(t) = e

j2 f0 t

j2 f0 t

= cos(2 f0 t) + j sin(2 f0 t)

Pulse-Like Signals
Unit step

u(t) =

Unit pulse p (t) =

1
0

u(t)

t>0
t<0

0
1
0

1
t

t<0
0<t<
t>

p (t)
1
t

sqT(t)
A

Square wave sqT (t)

-T

-T/2

T/2
-A

Building Signals
Signal delay

s(t

)
u(t- )

u(t)

What is u(t)

u(t

)?
p (t)

u(t)

u(t

) = p (t)

1
t

Building Signals
Envisioning signals as a sum/difference of simpler
signals is called signal superposition
t
u( ) d

r(t) =

s(t)
1

s(t) = r(t)

1)

u(t)

r(t

u(t

1)

r(t

1)

u(t

1)

Building Signals

Important signals
Sinusoids

Complex exponential
Unit step
Pulses
signals as a sum of
Constructing/deconstructing
simpler signals

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