Signals and Systems: Continuous and Discrete

by William H. Tranter, Ronald D. Faninn, Rodger E. Ziemer, et al.

Book Overview

A market leader in previous editions, this book continues to offer a complete survey of continuous and discrete linear systems. KEY TOPICS: It utilizes a systems approach to solving practical engineering problems, rather than using the framework of traditional circuit theory. Numerous examples from circuit theory appear throughout, however, to illustrate the various systems techniques introduced. The Fourth Edition has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013496456X
• ISBN13: 9780134964560
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

One of the better signals and systems books

Unlike texts that read like they have been compiled by cutting and pasting, this one reads like the authors are directly talking to you. Some things I like about this text: * It does not omit the hard stuff, like the inversion integral for laplace transforms so you don't have to rely only on transform tables. * It includes topics not often found in introductory signals and systems texts like the chirp-z transform. * It has several worked examples for each section and shows how to perform the calculations both by hand and using matlab. * The end-of-chapter problems are doable. * The approach taken in the text is a general systems approach and not a narrow circuits approach. While everyone's entitled to their opinion many of the negative reviews appeared to be critical without substance.

Makes You Love Communication

I was really surprised by some of the negative comments written on this book, and that is why I decided to write this comment. This book was the one assigned to the undergraduate course I took entitled Signals and Systems. In fact, this book made me like communications and signal processing, and I believe that it motivated me a lot (beside the other book by Ziemer & Tranter entitled Principles of Communication Systems: Modulation, Noise, Systems, 4th edition) to go for the graduate studies in communications and signal processing. What I liked about the two books was that they assume NO prior knowledge of the topics covered and they move on smoothly from one subject to another so that the student will have a better understanding of the "big picture" as he/she moves on. Well, I guess that the other "negative" comments about this book were written by students who expected to understand the topics covered in this book from one skim read. Let me say that that is NOT the case here. In order to understand the topics covered very well, you should read them more than once and try to solve as many problems as possible. But trust me on this: once you do so, you will grasp the material very well and will have a "feel" of what is going on.