Signals and Systems (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Status quo, tolerable at best, electronics text
Review: I used this book in an electronics class (EE301) at Purdue University. While it has excellent reference tables throughout the book that contain all the useful formulas, the explanations in the text are weak. The author(s) seem too busy trying to impress us with mathematical explanations to tell us why all this is useful in the real world. Unfortunately, this is the norm in electronics texts-- few professors ever have jobs in the real world, making it difficult for them to explain why all the rest of us need to know what we're learning. This book is no exception.

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Summary: [e-mail]
Review: I want the answers of this book ! can you send email to me

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Summary: It is hard to say but...
Review: Imagine an undergraduate student with a caffeine saturated blood one day before the exam trying to learn the subject in few hours, my god this horrible story might be good enough to make it mission impossible IIII!, it is hard to say this is the wrong book. If this is your case I would recommend something like schaum's!

Otherwise, if you are trying to learn the concept so that you will not just pass this course but also you can pass more advanced courses e.g. digital communication or digital signal processing, I guess, this is the book to learn it bottom to up approach.

However, it is more focused on the concept and the mathematical foundations. In my view, this is how you learn the right way.

Ironically speaking, trading the insight and the mathematical convenience for saving time using some solved examples (robotic supervised learning approach) within the semester at constant grade (in this course w.r.t. someone who knows the concept) would not guarantee you that same constant grade in the next more advanced course and as for the higher order terms(k(this year)+n;n=0..m in the set[0,1,2,3]) it will decay your grades exponentially!

Finally, I would like to emphasize that the book is not concerned with DSP or digital communication as it is obvious in its title. The book doesn't cover things like Hilbert transform neither. It is made for a sophomore or a Junior ECS course to learn the foundation of the material.

In summary, the book is made for undergrads those want to get superior GPAs.

It takes time to build up your mind with signals concepts in the beginning but then your d(learning)/dt will increase as the new mathematical concepts decrease i.e.d(new math. concepts)/dt=-ve.

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Summary: Want the solution manual
Review: It's a good book. But if any one who can tell me how to get the solution manual, it will be much better. Thanks!

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Summary: Es perfecto como apoyo a las clases
Review: Las críticas al libro son realmente injustas, en mi opinión el autor no pretende escribir un curso sobre Señales sino más bien un texto que sirva como guía al desarrollo de un curso semestral. Detenerse en determinados aspectos haría de este, un libro interminable,y se presupone que el lector esta minimamente familiarizado con técnicas matemáticas como para no detenerse en aspectos ajenos a la disciplina de la cual versa.

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Summary: one of the better introductory Signal Processing textbooks.
Review: Relative to Siebert's introductory text, this book is a godsend. Yes, it does assume a thorough math background (complex numbers, etc.) but overall I found the presentation to be clear, with well illustrated examples. I have just seen the second edition (which amazon.com does not have yet!) and relative to the first, it seems better organized, with more extensive examples

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Summary: Solution Guide
Review: Systems and Signals is a textbook for undergrad engineering majors. Although there are hundreds of worked out examples within the body of the text, there are only 10-15 problems at the end of each chapter with answers. The only flaw in this text is that it does not provide the student with enough problems with answers in the back. A solution guide to this text exists...

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Summary: Excellent Intro to Signals
Review: The book was used as the text for a class in Intro to Signals and Systems. I don't think the material could be explained better the first time around. I'll admit the text is quite long winded, and how it seperates continous and discrete/sampled signals into seperate chapters makes each topic even longer. I'll also say, it doesn't do the best job at explaining how to compute convolutions, but was the best I'd seen to date. On the other hand, the book does an excellent job explaining Fourier coefficients and transforms, Laplace and Z transforms, and Nyquist sampling.

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Summary: Excellent Intro to Signals
Review: The book was used as the text for a class in Intro to Signals and Systems. I don't think the material could be explained better the first time around. I'll admit the text is quite long winded, and how it seperates continous and discrete/sampled signals into seperate chapters makes each topic even longer. I'll also say, it doesn't do the best job at explaining how to compute convolutions, but was the best I'd seen to date. On the other hand, the book does an excellent job explaining Fourier coefficients and transforms, Laplace and Z transforms, and Nyquist sampling.

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Summary: Yeah Right!
Review: The problems in this book at the end of each chapter are not even close to explained in the text. This book might be a good thing to read if you have a VERY good professor, but since none of the professors teaching the class at my school are considered by students even to be good, a lot more than this book provides is needed