Continuous and Discrete Time Signals and Systems

This is the ultimate perfect book !! I had Oppenheim and Lathi's books. I would like to compare the three books: Oppenheim's, Lathi's, and Mandal's (this book). Oppenheim's Signals and Systems (2nd Edition) teaches analog and digital signals alternatively. This is good to compare difference between analog and digital systems, but some important concepts are not detail enough (i.g. LTI property, convolution, etc) Lathi's Linear Systems and Signals, 2nd Edition is very clear, but the teaching order is different from the way taught in many universities. (Laplace and z transform comes before Fouirer transform) For self-study, Lathi's book is one of the best book. This book (Mandel's) contains the strength of both books above. 1. Independence between analog chapters and digital chapters. (You can directly go to digital chapters without understanding analog chapters) 2. Systematic organization of chapters 3. Lots of figures (it even has small chapter on "graphical method for convolution") 4. Lots of examples 5. Covers FIR/IIR filter design deeper than other books do This is by far the best textbook on signals and systems.

I am writing a book on FFTs and so happen to purchase this book without benefit of a lot of reviews. And what a surprise the book was. It is just plain fantastic. All concepts explained beautifully, no example step too trivial. The authors do a tremendous job of explaining and demonstrating all concepts with crystal clear clarity. I am very impressed. The book should be THE text book for DSP. Bar none. - Charan Langton

what I needed for my class

Came as expected. As advertised book I needed for class and have been using it as reference and Homework since semester started.

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Well, I bought this book because it was required for my class and my professor said he heard great things about this book through the reviews, saying how well the example problems are solved, etc. He was either lying or didn't care considering current experience with the book and the really s***ty excuses for reviews. The book, despite providing a good amount of detail, only provides the most trivial problems for examples. It essentially crams a whole bunch of information into a some paragraphs, enough for you to get the idea behind what it's saying but barely feels like enough to tackle any of the problems at the end. There are no answers in the back to check your work and even worse is that they throw problems in the Appendix. If anyone is really serious about learning Continuous and Discrete Time Signals and Systems and this book isn't required, look elsewhere.

Shipping was pretty quick. The spine of the book was half way torn but easily fixed with some packaging tape. as for the inside of the book, it was pretty good.

Great book for discrete

Es gibt unzählige Bücher die die Grundlagen der Signal- und Systemtheorie behandeln. Warum also noch eins? Da Qualität und Quantität nicht immer einhergehen, sticht ein Buch wie dieses eindeutig positiv aus der breiten Masse hervor. Es richtet sich primär Studenten der Elektrotechnik im Bachelorstudium, aber auch an alle anderen technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Studenten und Interessierte, und behandelt sowohl die Grundlagen der zeitkontinuierlichen als auch die der zeitdiskreten Signale und Systeme. Die Themen werden auf eine äußerst gründliche aber immer anschauliche Weise eingeführt, so dass ein stabiles Fundament für weiterführende Behandlungen geschaffen wird. Zwischen jedem Theorieblock liegen ausführliche Beispielrechnungen, die dem Leser auch vermeintlich simple Zwischenschritte hin zum Ergebnis aufzeigen. Übungen in Matlab ergänzen die Interaktion mit dem gelesenen Stoff. Auf der beiliegenden CD sind sowohl der Quellcode der Beispiele im Buch sowie weiteres Material zum besseren Verständnis der behandelten Themen, z.B. animierte Grafiken, die die Faltung verständlicher machen. Die Autoren haben sich sichtlich Mühe beim bei der Gestaltung dieses Lehrbuchs gegeben, um den gängigen Problemen der Studierenden entgegenzuwirken. Das Inhaltsverzeichnis sieht wie folgt aus: 1. Introduction to signals 2. Introduction to systems Part I. Continuous Time Signals and Systems: 3. Time domain analysis of systems 4. Signal representation using Fourier series 5. Continuous-time Fourier transform 6. Laplace transform 7. Continuous-time filters 8. Case studies for CT systems Part II. Discrete Time Signals and Systems 9. Sampling and quantization 10. Time domain analysis 11. Discrete-time Fourier series and transform 12. Discrete Fourier transform 13. Z-transform 14. Digital filters 15. FIR filter design 16. IIR filter design 17. Applications of digital signal processing Bibliography Appendices: A. Mathematical tables B. Introduction to complex numbers C. Linear constant coefficient differential equations D. Partial fraction expansion E. Introduction to MATLAB Fazit: Dieses Lehrbuch ist ideal, um Studenten die Angst vor einem zu Unrecht verschrienen Themenbereich zu nehmen, der gerade für Elektroingenieure ein mächtiges Werkzeug darstellt. Da es ein Grundlagenbuch ist, werden weiterführende Themen wie die Spektralanalyse, praktische Implementierung von Algorithmen auf DSPs oder aktive Filter nicht oder nur beispielhaft behandelt. Für diese Bereiche sollte aber sowieso auf Spezialliteratur zurückgegriffen werden. Die Ausführungen über digitale Filter sind dafür recht umfangreich.