My wife says Sudoku, etc., is supposed to keep your mind sharp. Well, how about technical text book problems? Keep the mind sharp and understand the physical world a bit better—it’s a win-win!

Signal Processing First by John H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, Mark A. Yoder

Chapter 1: Introduction

I read the intro and it was fine. There were no drill problems or end of chapter questions.

Chapter 2: Sinusoids

Sinusoids are fundamental to signal processing. This chapter is pretty straightforward but I need to get used to doing these type of problems.

Exercise Solutions

EXE-2.1

Exercise 2.1

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1.1        Sequence Estimating

In 1671 the Scottish mathematician James Gregory came up with the following series for calculating :

Thinking of the terms inside the parenthesis as a sequence indexed by the variable n, where n = 0,1,2,3,…,100, write Gregory’s algorithm in the form

Replace the “?” characters expressions in terms of index n.