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Final
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Apr
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11:59
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Question
1
Sammy Likes Challenges
Sammy has been presented in lab with a mystery circuit. He notes that the voltage at the output
terminals is a sinusoid having a frequency of

. Wanting a challenge, he decides to make more

complicated measurements than necessary to solve the mystery. When he attaches a F

capacitor, he finds the capacitor voltage to be

When he attaches a

H inductor, he measures an inductor voltage of

Case 1

Case 2

Now, can he face the challenge and solve the mystery?

When the capacitor was attached, what was the current

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Question
2
Solve the mystery and characterize the circuit.

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First, type the equivalent impedance as a complex number.

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Question
3
Second, type the Thvenin equivalent voltage source as a real-valued quantity. For example, if
you found
-sin(t).

and expressed

, your answer should be

, typed as

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Question
4
A digital filter, having

as its input and

as its output, is governed by the difference

equation

What is the unit sample response

Provide the first five values for

of this filter?
as numeric values separated by spaces. For example, if

, you would type 1 .5 .25 .125 .0625.

Question
5
What is this filters transfer function?

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Question
6
Alfred, a student in FEE, measures the output of this filter to be
input

. He knows that the input was zero for

Type an expression for the input

. What was the input?

for some

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Question
7
Private Communications
Because seemingly everyone is concerned about privacy, Private Communications, Inc.,
advertises its secure analog communications system. The claim is that radios cannot be tuned
to receive transmission made by PCI systems unless they know the secret, which can only be
purchased from PCI.
The base-level (cheapest) PCI system sends message signals having a

bandwidth by

amplitude modulating a half-wave-rectified-sinusoid carrier signal having a frequency of

Can a commercial AM radio listen-in on transmissions made with this system?
No. Communications are indeed secret from commercial receivers.
Yes, if the radio is tuned to
Yes, if the radio is tuned to

.
.

Only if the coherent receiver uses a half-wave rectified sinusoid instead of the usual
sinusoid.

Question
8
A more expensive system from PCI uses a complicated square-wave-like signal as its carrier.

What are the Fourier series coefficients?

Type your answer as a complex-valued expression that depends on .

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Question
9
PCI sells several receivers that work with this expensive modulation scheme. Which one yields
the largest signal-to-noise ratio for the demodulated message? Here, assume

. The

channel attenuates and add white noise.

A simple commercial radio receiver tuned to
A receiver that uses

, the square-wave-like carrier, in a coherent demodulator.

Summing the output of two receivers, one tuned to

A simple commercial radio receiver tuned to

and the other tuned to

Question
10
Transmitting DNA Sequences
The three-billion base-pair DNA sequence of an ancient human has just been determined. The
project director wants to use the latest technology to transmit the result to the entire world at
once via satellite. He assigns a digital communication specialist to the job.

The frequency of occurrence of DNA base pair letters was found to be

Letter Probability
A

1/3

1/3

1/4

1/12

How many bits/letter, on average, are required to represent the data accurately?

Question
11
The satellite channel has a bandwidth of

MHz and a signal-to-noise ratio of

dB. How long

(in seconds) will it take to broadcast the entire sequence?

Question
12
The project director decides that this communication scheme takes too long. At extra cost, he
can purchase use of an additional channel that has the same bandwidth but is twice as noisy as
the first. A complication is that the satellite cannot increase its transmitter power; it will need to
split the single-channel power
power

and

between the two channels. What is the optimal allocation of

the power used for the noisier channel) between the two channels so that

NOTE: Express
enter

type W.

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Question
13

in terms of ,

and

. To enter

type P, to enter

type N0, to

How much faster (or slower) is the transmission time for the DNA sequence if two channels are
used?

Datarate two channels = ____

Datarate one channel?

Question
14
Communications System Design
For a digital transmitter, how many bits would your A/D require, what datarate can be achieved
(in bits/second), and what is the capacity of your system (in bits/sec)?
NOTE: Enter your answer as a list. If you require a 1 bit A/D, have a datarate of 1000 bps, and a
capacity of 15000 bps enter 1 1000 15000. No commas, periods or scientific notation can be
used in your answer. In other words, type 1000 for

and 15000 for 15,000 or 15.000.

Question
15
Which system provides better performance?
Digital
Analog

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