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Exercises

  1. A sinusoid (Page [*]) has initial phase $\phi=0$ and angular frequency $\omega = \pi/10$. What is its period in samples? What is the phase at sample number $n=10$?

  2. Two sinusoids have periods of 20 and 30 samples, respectively. What is the period of the sum of the two?

  3. If 0 dB corresponds to an amplitude of 1, how many dB corresponds to amplitudes of 1.5, 2, 3, and 5?

  4. Two uncorrelated signals of RMS amplitude 3 and 4 are added; what's the RMS amplitude of the sum?

  5. How many uncorrelated signals, all of equal amplitude, would you have to add to get a signal that is 9 dB greater in amplitude?

  6. What is the angular frequency of middle C at 44100 samples per second?

  7. Two sinusoids play at middle C (MIDI 60) and the neighboring C sharp (MIDI 61). What is the difference, in Hertz, between their frequencies?

  8. How many cents is the interval between the seventh and the eighth harmonic of a periodic signal?

  9. If an audio signal $x[n], n = 0, ..., N-1$ has peak amplitude 1, what is the minimum possible RMS amplitude? What is the maximum possible?


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Miller Puckette 2006-12-30