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News/Notice
- Sign up for oral exams between Apr 7 - 8 on Doodle. Make sure you pick one and only one time slot. Double check if your spot was previously selected or not.
- This course has been activated on UofT Portal Blackboard.
- Assignment late policy is 10% reduction per day.
- I apologize for the confusion over lab location this morning. Our labs will be in MP257. Jan 8, LQY.
- Matlab/Freemat/Octave is the official programming language of this class. Start learning if you have never used it before. See below for tutorial links and wiki pages.
- I strongly advise you to bring your own laptop with either matlab, freemat or octave installed to the Wednesday lab sessions.
- Lecture hours at 1-2 on Tuesdays. First lecture on Jan 7, 2013.
- Syllabus is listed below.
- Please add [PHY408H] to the title of your submission email and name your report as emailname_labN.pdf (e.g., liuqy_lab0.pdf) for faster identification; Related matlab codes are required to be pasted to your final report which should be sent to our TA.
Time
- Lectures: Tuesdays 1-2 PM, MP118
- Lab sessions: Wednesday 10-12 at computer lab MP257.
Lecturer
Instructor:
Qinya Liu
Office: MP 504A
Phone: 416-978-5434
Email: liuqy AT physics.utoronto.ca
Office Hours: Mondays 4-6 pm
Teaching Assistant:
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Office: MP 403
Email: esalesde AT physics.utoronto.ca
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5 pm (tentative)
Basic Topics
- linear systems, convolution and impulse response
- discrete time series, discrete Fourier transform
- sampling theorem, truncation effects
- filters
- stochastic processes and power spectra
- image processing, application to real data series
- possibly more ...
Reference Books
There is no required text book for this class. However, you may find the following books/notes useful:
Course Schedule
| Time | Content | Extra download/Links | Computer Labs |
| Jan 7 | Introduction | matlab tutorial,
another tutorial by Liang | Lab 0: Matlab Exercises |
| Jan 17, 24 | Lecture 1: Convolution | bucket_boxcar.avi, bucket_imp.avi
| Lab 1: Convolution, RAYN.II.LHZ.sem |
| Jan 31, Feb 7, 14, 28 | Lecture 2: Discrete Fourier Transform | Youtube Video: Ripples in Mathematics | Lab 2: DFT, argon.m |
| Mar 7 | Lecture 3: Z-Transform | | Lab 3: filters , co2data.m |
| Mar 28 | Lecture 4: CC and Power spectra | | Lab 4, data, modes.pdf |
Downloads
MATLAB Links
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