EECS 246: PROBLEM SET #1 POST-MORTEM
Prof. Michael S. Branicky


Total = 50 points

Distribution was as follows (N=39):

5: 012
4: 00222222222255556777788888
3: 1356999
2: 69
1: 7

Problem 1.1 [10 points]

  1. Many people had domain = [1,300] which is not the same as {1, 2, ..., 300}. Minus 1 point.
  2. Up to three points were awarded for correct rule here. +1 for a good try. The thing that made it harder than the square wave is that the signal's amplitude either depends on n or uses the floor function.

    One student, Scott McMichael, gave the following Matlab code, which I tested for correctness: x=1-20*abs(t-.2*floor(t/.2)-.1)

Problem 1.2 [10 points]

Error in one domain or range -1. Missing -3.
Many made same mistake as in Problem 1.1(a) for coin flips and for color values: [1,100] and [0,255] instead of {1,2,...,100} and {0,1,...,255}. Also, range for coin flips is {H,T} not [H,T].

Problem 1.3 [10 points]

Many people either did not label signals at all (-4) or mixed them in with the systems blocks (-2 or -3). Diagrams should conform to the following template:
 Signal in   _________  Signal out
------------>| System |------------>
             ----------

Problem 1.4 [10 points]

Most did this correctly. Small errors were starting bumper at 0 (-1) or wrong domain for discrete signal (-1).

Problem 1.5 [10 points]

-2 for each plot missing. Biggest problem was missing both outputs (-4).

Created: 2004-08-30. Last Modified: 2004-08-31.