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PROFESSOR: Last time, we
introduced the Laplace

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transform as a generalization of
the Fourier transform, and,

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just as a reminder, the Laplace
transform expression

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as we developed it is this
integral, very much similar to

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the Fourier transform integral,
except with a more

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general complex variable.

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And, in fact, we developed and
talked about the relationship

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between the Laplace transform
and the Fourier transform.

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In particular, the Laplace
transform with the Laplace

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transform variable s, purely
imaginary, in fact, reduces to

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the Fourier transform.

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Or, more generally, with the
Laplace transform variable as

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a complex number, the Laplace
transform is the Fourier

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transform of the corresponding
time function with an

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exponential weighting.

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And, also, as you should
recall, the exponential

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waiting introduced the notion
that the Laplace transform may

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converge for some values of
sigma and perhaps not for

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other values of sigma.

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So associated with the Laplace
transform was what we refer to

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as the region of convergence.

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Now just as with the Fourier
transform, there are a number

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of properties of the Laplace
transform that are extremely

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useful in describing and
analyzing signals and systems.

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For example, one of the
properties that we, in fact,

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took advantage of in our
discussion last time was the

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linearly the linearity property,
which says, in

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essence, that the Laplace
transform of the linear

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combination of two time
functions is the same linear

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combination of the associated
Laplace transforms.

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Also, there is a very important
and useful property,

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which tells us how the

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derivative of a time function--

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rather, the Laplace transform
of the derivative--

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is related to the Laplace
transform.

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In particular, the Laplace
transform of the derivative is

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the Laplace transform x
of t multiplied by s.

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And, as you can see by just
setting s equal to j omega, in

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fact, this reduces to the
corresponding Fourier

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transform property.

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And a third property that we'll
make frequent use of is

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referred to as the convolution
property.

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Again, a generalization of the
convolution property for

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Fourier transforms.

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Here the convolution property
says that the Laplace

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transform of the convolution of
two time functions is the

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product of the associated
Laplace transforms.

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Now it's important at some point
to think carefully about

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the region of convergence as we
discuss these properties.

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And let me just draw your
attention to the fact that in

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discussing properties fully and
in detail, one has to pay

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attention not just to how the
algebraic expression changes,

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but also what the consequences
are for the region of

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convergence, and that's
discussed in somewhat more

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detail in the text and
I won't do that here.

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Now the convolution property
leads to, of course, a very

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important and useful mechanism
for dealing with linear time

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invariant systems, very much as
the Fourier transform did.

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In particular, the convolution
property tells us that if we

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have a linear time invariant
system, the output in the time

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domain is the convolution
of the input

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and the impulse response.

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In the Laplace transform domain,
the Laplace transform

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of the output is the Laplace
transform of the impulse

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response times the Laplace
transform of the input.

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And again, this is a
generalization of the

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corresponding property for
Fourier transforms.

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In the case of the Fourier
transform, the Fourier

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transform [? of ?] the impulse
response we refer to as the

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frequency response.

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In the more general case with
Laplace transforms, it's

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typical to refer to the Laplace
transform of the

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impulse response as the
system function.

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Now in talking about the system
function, some issues

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of the region of convergence--

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and for that matter,
location of poles

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of the system function--

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are closely tied in and related
to issues of whether

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the system is stable
and causal.

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And in fact, there's some useful
statements that can be

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made that play an important role
throughout the further

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discussion.

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For example, we know from
previous discussions that

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there's a condition for
stability of a system, which

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is absolute integrability
of the impulse response.

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And that, in fact, is the same
condition for convergence of

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the Fourier transform of
the impulse response.

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What that says, really, is that
if a system is stable,

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then the region of convergence
of the system function must

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include the j omega axis.

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Which, of course, is where the
Laplace transform reduces to

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the Fourier transform.

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So that relates the region of
convergence and stability.

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Also, you recall from last time
that we talked about the

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region of convergence associated
with right sided

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time functions.

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In particular for a right
sided time function, the

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region of convergence must
be to the right of

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the rightmost pole.

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Well, if, in fact, we have a
system that's causal, then

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that causality imposes the
condition that the impulse

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response be right sided.

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And so, in fact, for causality,
we would have a

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region of convergence associated
with the system

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function, which is to the right
of the rightmost pole.

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Now interestingly and very
important is the consequence,

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if you put those two statements
together, in

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particular, you're led to the
conclusion that for stable

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causal systems, all the poles
must be in the left half of

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the s-plane.

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What's the reason?

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The reason, of course, is that
if the system is stable and

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causal, the region of
convergence must be to the

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right of the rightmost pole.

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It must include the
j omega axis.

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Obviously then, all the poles
must be in the left half of

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the s-plane.

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And again, that's an issue that
is discussed somewhat

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more carefully and in more
detail in the text.

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Now, the properties that we're
talking about here are not the

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only properties, there
are many others.

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But these properties, in
particular, provide the

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mechanism--

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as they did with Fourier
transforms--

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for turning linear constant
coefficient differential

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equations into algebraic
equations and, corresponding,

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lead to a mechanism for dealing
with and solving

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linear constant coefficient
differential equations.

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And I'd like to illustrate that
by looking at both first

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order and second order
differential equations.

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Let's begin, first of all,
with a first order

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differential equation.

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So what we're talking about
is a first order system.

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What I mean by that is a system
that's characterized by

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a first order differential
equation.

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And if we apply to this equation
the differentiation

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property, then the
derivative--

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the Laplace transform of the
derivative is s times the

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Laplace transform of
the time function.

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The linearity property allows us
to combine these together.

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And so, consequently, applying
the Laplace transform to this

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equation leads us to this
algebraic equation, and

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following that through, leads
us to the statement that the

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Laplace transform of the output
is one over s plus a

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times the Laplace transform
of the input.

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We know from the convolution
property that this Laplace

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transform is the system
function times x of s.

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And so, one over s plus a is
the system function or

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equivalently, the Laplace
transform

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of the impulse response.

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So, we can determine the impulse
response by taking the

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inverse Laplace transform
of h of s given by

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one over s plus a.

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Well, we can do that using the
inspection method, which is

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one way that we have of doing
inverse Laplace transforms.

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The question is then, what time
function has a Laplace

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transform which is one
over s plus a?

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The problem that we run
into is that there are

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two answers to that.

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one over s plus a is the
Laplace transform of an

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exponential for positive time,
but one over s plus a is also

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the Laplace transform of an
exponential for negative time.

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Which one of these do
we end up picking?

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Well, recall that the difference
between these was

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in their region of
convergence.

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And in fact, in this case, this
corresponded to a region

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of convergence, which was
the real part of s

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greater than minus a.

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In this case, this was the
corresponding Laplace

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transform, provided that
the real part of s is

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less than minus a.

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So we have to decide which
region of convergence that we

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pick and it's not the
differential equation that

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will tell us that, it's
something else that has to

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give us that information.

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What could it be?

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Well, what it might be is the
additional information that

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the system is either
stable or causal.

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So for example, if the system
was causal, we would know that

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the region of convergence is to
the right of the pole and

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that would correspond,
then, to this

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being the impulse response.

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Whereas, with a negative--

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I'm sorry with a positive--

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if we knew that the system,
let's say, was non-causal,

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then we would associate with
this region of convergence and

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we would know then that this
is the impulse response.

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So a very important point is
that what we see is that the

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linear constant coefficient
differential equation gives us

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the algebraic expression for the
system function, but does

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not tell us about the region
of convergence.

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We get the reach of convergence
from some

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auxiliary information.

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What is that information?

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Well, it might, for example, be
knowledge that the system

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is perhaps stable, which tells
us that the region of

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convergence includes the j omega
axis, or perhaps causal,

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which tells us that the region
of convergence is to the right

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of the rightmost pole.

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So it's the auxiliary
information that specifies for

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us the region of convergence.

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Very important point.

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The differential equation by
itself does not completely

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specify the system, it only
essentially tells us what the

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algebraic expression is for
the system function.

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Alright that's a first
order example.

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Let's now look at a second
order system and the

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differential equation that
I picked in this case.

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I've parameterized in a certain
way, which we'll see

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will be useful.

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In particular, it's a second
order differential equation

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and I chosen, just for
simplicity, to not include any

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derivatives on the right hand
side, although we could have.

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In fact, if we did, that would
insert zeros into the system

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function, as well as the
poles inserted by

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the left hand side.

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We can determine the system
function in exactly the same

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way, namely, apply the Laplace
transform to this equation.

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That would convert this
differential equation to an

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algebraic equation.

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And now when we solve this
algebraic equation for y of s,

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in terms of x of s, it will come
out in the form of y of

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s, equal to h of s,
times x of s.

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And h of s, in that case, we
would get simply by dividing

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out by this polynomial [? in ?]
s, and so the system

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function then is the expression
that I have here.

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So this is the form for a second
order system where

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there are two poles.

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Since this is a second order
polynomial, there are no zeros

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associated with the fact that
I had no derivatives of the

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input on the right hand
side of the equation.

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Well, let's look at
this example--

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namely the second
order system--

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in a little more detail.

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And what we'll want to look at
is the location of the poles

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and some issues such
as, for example,

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the frequency response.

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So here again I have the
algebraic expression for the

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system function.

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And as I indicated, this is a
second order polynomial, which

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means that we can factor
it into two roots.

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So c1 and c2 represent the poles
of the system function.

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And in particular, in relation
to the two parameters zeta and

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omega sub n--

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if we look at what these roots
are, then what we get are the

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two expressions that
I have below.

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And notice, incidentally, that
if zeta is less than one, then

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what's under the square
root is negative.

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And so this, in fact,
corresponds to

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an imaginary part--

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an imaginary term for
zeta less than one.

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And so the two roots, then,
have a real part which is

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given by minus zeta omega sub n,
and an imaginary part-- if

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I were to rewrite this and then
express it in terms of j

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or the square root
of minus one.

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Looking below, we'll have a real
part which is minus zeta

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omega sub n--

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an imaginary part which
is omega sub n

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times this square root.

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So that's for zeta less than one
and for zeta greater than

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one, the two roots, of
course, will be real.

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Alright, so let's examine this
for the case where zeta is

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less than one.

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And what that corresponds to,
then, are two poles in the

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complex plane.

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And they have a real part
and an imaginary part.

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And you can explore this in
somewhat more detail on your

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own, but, essentially what
happens is that as you keep

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the parameter omega sub n fixed
and vary zeta, these

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poles trace out a circle.

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And, for example, where zeta
equal to zero, the poles are

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on the j omega axis
at omega sub n.

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As zeta increases and gets
closer to one, the poles

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converge toward the real axis
and then, in particular, for

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zeta greater than one, what we
end up with are two poles on

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the real axis.

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Well, actually, the case that
we want to look at a little

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more carefully is when the
poles are complex.

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And what this becomes is a
second order system, which as

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we'll see as the discussion
goes on, has an impulse

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response which oscillates with
time and correspondingly a

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frequency response that
has a resonance.

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Well let's examine the frequency
response a little

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more carefully.

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And what I'm assuming in the
discussion is that, first of

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all, the poles are in the left
half plane corresponding to

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zeta omega sub n being
positive--

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and so this is-- minus
that is negative.

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And furthermore, I'm assuming
that the poles are complex.

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And in that case, the algebraic
expression for the

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system function is omega sub n
squared in the numerator and

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two poles in the denominator,
which are complex conjugates.

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Now, what we want to look at is
the frequency response of

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the system.

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And

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that corresponds to looking at
the Fourier transform of the

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impulse response, which is the
Laplace transform on the j

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omega axis.

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So we want to examine what h of
s is as we move along the j

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omega axis.

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And notice, that to do that, in
this algebraic expression,

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we want to set s equal to j
omega and then evaluate--

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for example, if we want to look
at the magnitude of the

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frequency response--

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evaluate the magnitude of
the complex number.

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Well, there's a very convenient
way of doing that

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geometrically by recognizing
that in the complex plane,

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this complex number minus
that complex number

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represents a vector.

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And essentially, to look at the
magnitude of this complex

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number corresponds to taking
omega sub n squared and

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dividing it by the product of
the lengths of these vectors.

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So let's look, for example, at
the vector s minus c1, where s

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is on the j omega axis.

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And doing that, here is the
vector c1, and here is the

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vector s-- which is j omega if
we're looking, let's say, at

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this value of frequency--

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and this vector, then, is
the vector which is

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j omega minus c1.

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So in fact, it's the length of
this vector that we want to

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observe as we change omega--

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namely as we move along
the j omega axis.

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We want to take this vector
and this vector, take the

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lengths of those vectors,
multiply them together, divide

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that into omega sub n squared,
and that will give us the

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frequency response.

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Now that's a little hard to see
how the frequency response

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will work out just looking
at one point.

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Although notice that as we move
along the j omega axis,

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as we get closer to this pole,
this vector, in fact, gets

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shorter, and so we might
expect , that

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the frequency response--

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as we're moving along the j
omega axis in the vicinity of

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that pole--

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would start to peak.

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Well, I think that all of
this is much better seen

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dynamically on the computer
display, so let's go to the

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computer display and what we'll
look at is a second

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order system--

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the frequency response
of it-- as we move

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along the j omega axis.

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So here we see the pole pair
in the complex plane and to

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generate the frequency response,
we want to look at

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the behavior of the pole vectors
as we move vertically

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along the j omega axis.

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So we'll show the pole vectors
and let's begin at omega

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equals zero.

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So here we have the pole vectors
from the poles to the

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point omega equal to zero.

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And, as we move vertically along
the j omega axis, we'll

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see how those pole vectors
change in length.

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The magnitude of the frequency
response is the reciprocal of

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the product of the lengths
of those vectors.

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Shown below is the frequency
response where we've begun

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just at omega equal to zero.

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And as we move vertically along
the j omega axis and the

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pole vector lengths change,
that will, then, influence

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what the frequency response
looks like.

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We've started here to move a
little bit away from omega

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equal to zero and notice that
in the upper half plane the

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pole vector has gotten
shorter.

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The pole vector for the pole
in the lower half plane has

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gotten longer.

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And now, as omega increases
further, that

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process will continue.

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And in particular, the pole
vector associated with the

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pole in the upper half
plane will be its

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shortest in the vicinity--

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at a frequency in the vicinity
of that pole--

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and so, for that frequency,
then, the frequency response

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will peak and we
see that here.

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From this point as the
frequency increases,

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corresponding to moving further
vertically along the j

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omega axis, both pole vectors
will increase in length.

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And that means, then, that the
magnitude of the frequency

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response will decrease.

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For this specific example, the
magnitude of the frequency

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response will asymptotically
go to zero.

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So what we see here is that the
frequency response has a

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resonance and as we see
geometrically from the way the

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vectors behaved, that resonance
in frequency is very

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clearly associated with the
position of the poles.

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And so, in fact, to illustrate
that further and dramatize it

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as long as we're focused on
it, let's now look at the

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frequency response for the
second order example as we

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change the pole positions.

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And first, what we'll do is let
the polls move vertically

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parallel to the j omega axis
and see how the frequency

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response changes, and then
we'll have the polls move

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horizontally parallel to the
real axis and see how the

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frequency response changes.

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To display the behavior of the
frequency response as the

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poles move, we've changed the
vertical scale on the

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frequency response somewhat.

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And now what we want to do
is move the poles, first,

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parallel to the j omega
axis, and then

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parallel to the real axis.

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00:24:53,380 --> 00:24:57,210
Here we see the effect of moving
the poles parallel to

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the j omega axis.

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And what we observe is that,
in fact, the frequency

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location of the resonance
shifts, basically tracking the

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location of the pole.

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If we now move the pole back
down closer to the real axis,

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then this resonance will shift
back toward its original

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location and so let's
now see that.

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And here we are back at the
frequency that we started at.

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Now we'll move the poles even
closer to the real axis.

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The frequency location of the
resonance will continue to

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shift toward lower
frequencies.

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And also in the process,
incidentally, the height over

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the resonant peak will increase
because, of course,

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the lengths of the pole vectors
are getting shorter.

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And so, we see now the resonance
shifting down toward

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lower and lower frequency.

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And, finally, what we'll now do
is move the poles back to

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their original position and
the resonant peak will, of

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course, shift back up.

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And correspondingly the height
or amplitude of the resonance

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will decrease.

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And now we're back at the
frequency response that we had

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generated previously.

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00:26:45,180 --> 00:26:49,160
Next we'd like to look at the
behavior as the polls move

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parallel to the real axis.

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First closer to the j omega axis
and then further away.

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As they move closer to the j
omega axis, the resonance

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sharpens because of the fact
that the pole vector gets

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00:27:03,810 --> 00:27:06,060
shorter and responds--

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00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:10,070
or changes in length more
quickly as we move past it

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moving along the j omega axis.

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So here we see the effect of
moving the poles closer to the

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j omega axis.

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00:27:20,020 --> 00:27:24,000
The resonance has gotten
narrower in frequency and

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higher in amplitude, associated
with the fact that

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the pole vector gets shorter.

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Next as we move back to the
original location, the

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resonance will broaden
once again and the

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amplitude will decrease.

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And then, if we continue to move
the poles even further

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00:27:57,810 --> 00:28:02,770
away from the real axis, the
resonance will broaden even

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further and the amplitude
of the peak

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will become even smaller.

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And finally, let's now look just
move the poles back to

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their original position and
we'll see the resonance narrow

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again and become higher.

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And so what we see then is
that for a second order

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system, the behavior of the
resonance basically is

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associated with the pole
locations, the frequency of

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the resonance associated with
the vertical position of the

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poles, and the sharpness of the
resonance associated with

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the real part of the poles-- in
other words, their position

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closer or further away from
the j omega axis.

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OK, so for complex poles, then,
for the second order

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system, what we see is that
we get a resonant kind of

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behavior, and, in particular,
then that resonate behavior

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tends to peak, or get peakier,
as the value

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of zeta gets smaller.

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And here, just to remind you of
what you saw, here is the

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frequency response with one
particular choice of values--

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well, this is normalized so that
omega sub n is one-- one

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particular choice for
zeta, namely 0.4.

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Here is what we have with zeta
smaller, and, finally, here is

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an example where zeta has gotten
even smaller than that.

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And what that corresponds to is
the poles moving closer to

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the j omega axis, the
corresponding frequency

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response getting peakier.

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Now in the time domain what
happens is that we have, of

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course, these complex roots,
which I indicated previously,

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where this represents the
imaginary part because zeta is

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less than one.

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And in the time domain, we
will have a form for the

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behavior, which is a e to the
c one t, plus a conjugate, e

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to the c one conjugate t.

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And so, in fact, as the
poles get closer

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to the j omega axis--

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00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:47,450
corresponding to zeta
getting smaller--

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as the polls get closer to the j
omega axis, in the frequency

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00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:55,840
domain the resonances
get sharper.

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In the time domain, the real
part of the poles has gotten

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smaller, and that means, in
fact, that in the time domain,

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the behavior will be more
oscillatory and less damped.

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And so just looking
at that again.

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Here is, in the time domain,
what happens.

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First of all, with the parameter
zeta equal to 0.4,

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00:31:24,170 --> 00:31:29,130
and it oscillates and
exponentially dies out.

493
00:31:29,130 --> 00:31:35,890
Here is the second order system
where zeta is now 0.2

494
00:31:35,890 --> 00:31:37,730
instead of 0.4.

495
00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:44,250
And, finally, the second order
system where zeta is 0.1.

496
00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:49,930
And what we see as zeta gets
smaller and smaller is that

497
00:31:49,930 --> 00:31:53,810
the oscillations are basically
the same, but the exponential

498
00:31:53,810 --> 00:31:58,610
damping becomes less and less.

499
00:31:58,610 --> 00:32:02,150
Alright, now, this is a somewhat
more detailed look at

500
00:32:02,150 --> 00:32:03,950
second order systems.

501
00:32:03,950 --> 00:32:07,010
And second order systems--
and for that

502
00:32:07,010 --> 00:32:08,390
matter, first order systems--

503
00:32:08,390 --> 00:32:13,100
are systems that are important
in their own right, but they

504
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:18,600
also are important as basic
building blocks for more

505
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,750
general, in particular, for
higher order systems.

506
00:32:21,750 --> 00:32:25,850
And the way in which that's done
typically is by combining

507
00:32:25,850 --> 00:32:29,400
first and second order systems
together in such a way that

508
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,750
they implement higher
order systems.

509
00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:35,330
And two very common connections
are connections

510
00:32:35,330 --> 00:32:39,470
which are cascade connections,
and connections which are

511
00:32:39,470 --> 00:32:42,170
parallel connections.

512
00:32:42,170 --> 00:32:47,980
In a cascade connection, we
would think of combining the

513
00:32:47,980 --> 00:32:52,060
individual systems together as
I indicate here in series.

514
00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:55,150
And, of course, from the
convolution property, the

515
00:32:55,150 --> 00:32:59,430
overall system function is the
product of the individual

516
00:32:59,430 --> 00:33:01,270
system functions.

517
00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:06,840
So, for example, if these were
all second order systems, and

518
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,500
I combine n of them together in
cascade, the overall system

519
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,010
would be a system that would
have to n poles-- in other

520
00:33:15,010 --> 00:33:18,190
words, it would be a
two n order system.

521
00:33:18,190 --> 00:33:21,140
That's one very common
kind of connection.

522
00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:24,010
Another very common kind of
connection for first and

523
00:33:24,010 --> 00:33:28,180
second order systems is a
parallel connection, where, in

524
00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:31,360
that case, we connect
the systems together

525
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,990
as I indicate here.

526
00:33:33,990 --> 00:33:38,900
The overall system function is
just simply the sum of these,

527
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:41,710
and that follows from the
linearity property.

528
00:33:41,710 --> 00:33:44,720
And so the overall system
function would be as I

529
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,160
indicate algebraically here.

530
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,130
And notice that if each of
these are second order

531
00:33:51,130 --> 00:33:56,020
systems, and I had capital N of
them in parallel, when you

532
00:33:56,020 --> 00:33:59,080
think of putting the overall
system function over one

533
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,070
common denominator, that
common denominator, in

534
00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:08,050
general, is going to be of order
two N. So either the

535
00:34:08,050 --> 00:34:11,639
parallel connection or the
cascade connection could be

536
00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:16,370
used to implement higher
order systems.

537
00:34:16,370 --> 00:34:20,870
One very common context in which
second order systems are

538
00:34:20,870 --> 00:34:25,739
combined together, either in
parallel or in cascade, to

539
00:34:25,739 --> 00:34:30,219
form a more interesting
system is, in

540
00:34:30,219 --> 00:34:31,929
fact, in speech synthesis.

541
00:34:31,929 --> 00:34:35,639
And what I'd like to do is
demonstrate a speech

542
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:40,780
synthesizer, which I have
here, which in fact is a

543
00:34:40,780 --> 00:34:46,460
parallel combination of four
second order systems, very

544
00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:49,960
much of the type that we've
just talked about.

545
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,170
I'll return to the synthesizer
in a minute.

546
00:34:53,170 --> 00:34:56,949
Let me first just indicate
what the basic idea is.

547
00:34:56,949 --> 00:35:00,930
In speech synthesis, what we're
trying to represent or

548
00:35:00,930 --> 00:35:04,140
implement is something
that corresponds

549
00:35:04,140 --> 00:35:06,450
to the vocal tract.

550
00:35:06,450 --> 00:35:09,570
The vocal tract is characterized
by a set of

551
00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:10,760
resonances.

552
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,700
And we can think of representing
each of those

553
00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,160
resonances by a second
order system.

554
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,700
And then the higher order system
corresponding to the

555
00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:21,350
vocal tract is built by, in
this case, a parallel

556
00:35:21,350 --> 00:35:25,210
combination of those second
order systems.

557
00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:30,470
So for the synthesizer, what we
have connected together in

558
00:35:30,470 --> 00:35:35,710
parallel is four second
order systems.

559
00:35:35,710 --> 00:35:41,130
And a control on each one of
them that controls the center

560
00:35:41,130 --> 00:35:45,850
frequency or the resonant
frequency of each of the

561
00:35:45,850 --> 00:35:48,930
second order systems.

562
00:35:48,930 --> 00:35:52,880
The excitation is an excitation
that would

563
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,270
represent the air flow through
the vocal cords.

564
00:35:56,270 --> 00:35:59,950
The vocal cords vibrate and
there are puffs of air through

565
00:35:59,950 --> 00:36:02,630
the vocal cords as they
open and close.

566
00:36:02,630 --> 00:36:08,430
And so the excitation for the
synthesizer corresponds to a

567
00:36:08,430 --> 00:36:12,640
pulse train representing
the air flow

568
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,270
through the vocal cords.

569
00:36:14,270 --> 00:36:17,850
The fundamental frequency
of this representing the

570
00:36:17,850 --> 00:36:21,740
fundamental frequency of
the synthesized voice.

571
00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:25,890
So that's the basic structure
of the synthesizer

572
00:36:25,890 --> 00:36:30,380
And what we have in this
analog synthesizer are

573
00:36:30,380 --> 00:36:35,600
separate controls on the
individual center frequencies.

574
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,250
There is a control representing
the center

575
00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:40,930
frequency of the third resonator
and the fourth

576
00:36:40,930 --> 00:36:42,660
resonator, and those
are represented

577
00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:44,570
by these two knobs.

578
00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:48,860
And then the first and second
resonators are controlled by

579
00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:50,650
moving this joystick.

580
00:36:50,650 --> 00:36:56,280
The first resonator by moving
the joystick along this axis

581
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,220
and the second resonator
by moving the

582
00:36:58,220 --> 00:37:01,030
joystick along this axis.

583
00:37:01,030 --> 00:37:05,570
And then, in addition to
controls on the four

584
00:37:05,570 --> 00:37:09,630
resonators, we can control the
fundamental frequency of the

585
00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:13,360
excitation, and we do
that with this knob.

586
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,070
So let's, first of all, just
listen to one of the

587
00:37:17,070 --> 00:37:20,490
resonators, and the resonator
that I'll play

588
00:37:20,490 --> 00:37:22,310
is the fourth resonator.

589
00:37:22,310 --> 00:37:26,840
And what you'll hear first is
the output as I vary the

590
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,730
center frequency of
that resonator.

591
00:37:28,730 --> 00:37:30,320
[BUZZING]

592
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,190
So I'm lowering the
center frequency.

593
00:37:35,310 --> 00:37:37,700
And then, bringing the center
frequency back up.

594
00:37:40,790 --> 00:37:44,200
And then, as I indicated,
I can also control the

595
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,400
fundamental frequency
of the excitation by

596
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:48,541
turning this knob.

597
00:37:48,541 --> 00:37:51,310
[BUZZING]

598
00:37:51,310 --> 00:37:52,720
Lowering the fundamental
frequency.

599
00:37:55,510 --> 00:37:58,486
And then, increasing the
fundamental frequency.

600
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:07,010
Alright, now, if the four
resonators in parallel are an

601
00:38:07,010 --> 00:38:11,640
implementation of the vocal
cavity, then, presumably, what

602
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,600
we can synthesize when we put
them all in are vowel sounds

603
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,360
and let's do that.

604
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,500
I'll now switch in the
other resonators.

605
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:27,530
When we do that, then, depending
on what choice we

606
00:38:27,530 --> 00:38:30,920
have for the individual resonant
frequencies, we

607
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,990
should be able to synthesize
vowel sounds.

608
00:38:32,990 --> 00:38:35,210
So here, for example,
is the vowel e.

609
00:38:35,210 --> 00:38:37,640
[BUZZING "E"].

610
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:38,280
Here is

611
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,025
[BUZZING "AH"]

612
00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:40,275
--ah.

613
00:38:41,875 --> 00:38:42,662
A.

614
00:38:42,662 --> 00:38:44,390
[BUZZING FLAT A]

615
00:38:44,390 --> 00:38:45,360
And, of course, we can--

616
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,662
[BUZZING OO]

617
00:38:46,662 --> 00:38:47,526
--generate

618
00:38:47,526 --> 00:38:47,902
[BUZZING "I"]

619
00:38:47,902 --> 00:38:50,160
--lots of other vowel sounds.

620
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,170
[BUZZING "AH"]

621
00:38:51,170 --> 00:38:53,910
--and change the fundamental
frequency at the same time.

622
00:38:53,910 --> 00:38:55,160
[CHANGES FREQUENCY
UP AND DOWN]

623
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,380
Now, if we want to synthesize
speech it's not enough to just

624
00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:08,100
synthesize steady state vowels--
that gets boring

625
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:08,920
after a while.

626
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,360
Of course what happens with the
vocal cavity is that it

627
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:19,330
moves as a function of time and
that's what generates the

628
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:21,580
speech that we want
to generate.

629
00:39:21,580 --> 00:39:26,520
And so, presumably then, if
we change these resonant

630
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,330
frequencies as a function of
time appropriately, then we

631
00:39:30,330 --> 00:39:32,500
should be able to synthesize
speech.

632
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:36,650
And so by moving these
resonances around, we can

633
00:39:36,650 --> 00:39:38,800
generate synthesized speech.

634
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,600
And let's try it with
some phrase.

635
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,380
And I'll do that by simply
adjusting the center

636
00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:47,630
frequencies appropriately.

637
00:39:50,310 --> 00:39:57,030
[BUZZING "HOW ARE YOU"]

638
00:39:57,030 --> 00:39:59,740
Well, hopefully you
understood that.

639
00:39:59,740 --> 00:40:03,910
As you could imagine, I spent at
least a few minutes before

640
00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:06,820
the lecture trying to practice
that so that it would come out

641
00:40:06,820 --> 00:40:10,090
to be more or less
intelligible.

642
00:40:10,090 --> 00:40:14,370
Now the system as I've just
demonstrated it is, of course,

643
00:40:14,370 --> 00:40:19,490
a continuous time system or an
analog speech synthesizer.

644
00:40:19,490 --> 00:40:23,540
There are many versions of
digital or discrete time

645
00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:24,980
synthesizers.

646
00:40:24,980 --> 00:40:30,000
One of the first, in fact, being
a device that many of

647
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,310
you are very likely familiar
with, which is the Texas

648
00:40:33,310 --> 00:40:36,680
Instruments Speak and Spell,
which I show here.

649
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:41,290
And what's very interesting and
rather dramatic about this

650
00:40:41,290 --> 00:40:44,740
device is the fact that it
implements the speech

651
00:40:44,740 --> 00:40:49,500
synthesis in very much the same
way as I've demonstrated

652
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:51,620
with the analog synthesizer.

653
00:40:51,620 --> 00:40:55,670
In this case, it's five second
order filters in a

654
00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:58,170
configuration that's slightly
different than a parallel

655
00:40:58,170 --> 00:41:02,130
configuration but conceptually
very closely related.

656
00:41:02,130 --> 00:41:05,510
And let's take a look
inside the box.

657
00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:09,520
And what we see there, with a
slide that was kindly supplied

658
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,720
by Texas Instruments, is the
fact that there really are

659
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,470
only four chips in there--

660
00:41:15,470 --> 00:41:17,600
a controller chip,
some storage.

661
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,370
And the important point is the
chip that's labeled as the

662
00:41:21,370 --> 00:41:25,860
speech synthesis chip, in fact,
is what embodies or

663
00:41:25,860 --> 00:41:30,540
implements the five second
order filters and, in

664
00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:34,470
addition, incorporates some
other things-- some memory and

665
00:41:34,470 --> 00:41:36,310
also the [? DDA ?]

666
00:41:36,310 --> 00:41:37,270
converters.

667
00:41:37,270 --> 00:41:40,260
So, in fact, the implementation
of the

668
00:41:40,260 --> 00:41:45,040
synthesizer is pretty much
done on a single chip.

669
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,940
Well that's a discrete
time system.

670
00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:53,600
We've been talking for the last
several lectures about

671
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,230
continuous time systems and
the Laplace transform.

672
00:41:57,230 --> 00:41:59,950
Hopefully what you've seen in
this lecture and the previous

673
00:41:59,950 --> 00:42:07,110
lecture is the powerful tool
that the Laplace transform

674
00:42:07,110 --> 00:42:11,830
affords us in analyzing and
understanding system behavior.

675
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,560
In the next lecture what I'd
like to do is parallel the

676
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,530
discussion for discrete time,
turn our attention to the z

677
00:42:21,530 --> 00:42:26,330
transform, and, as you can
imagine simply by virtue of

678
00:42:26,330 --> 00:42:31,670
the fact that I have shown you
a digital and analog version

679
00:42:31,670 --> 00:42:35,040
of very much the same kind of
system, the discussions

680
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,960
parallel themselves very
strongly and the z transform

681
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,560
will play very much the same
role in discrete time that the

682
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,090
Laplace transform does
in continuous time.

683
00:42:45,090 --> 00:42:46,340
Thank you.