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I have just started a course on signals and systems and am finding the subject confusing.
This question pertains to the transformations of the independent variable which is time in this case. I don't know why it is transformation of the "independent variable" as the time axis is the same as it originally was. The time axis is not "transformed". For example in time reversal of a signal, the signal is simply flipped about the origin and the time axis is unaltered (i.e. 't' stays the same but doesn't become '-t') yet the book says it is a transformation of the independent variable. Am I missing something?
After a reasonable amount of thought can anyone intuitively explain why time compression has a>1 i.e for a signal x(t) why and how x(2t) is the time compressed signal?? I think I will be able to answer the first question if I know why x(2t) is the compressed version of x(t).
This question pertains to the transformations of the independent variable which is time in this case. I don't know why it is transformation of the "independent variable" as the time axis is the same as it originally was. The time axis is not "transformed". For example in time reversal of a signal, the signal is simply flipped about the origin and the time axis is unaltered (i.e. 't' stays the same but doesn't become '-t') yet the book says it is a transformation of the independent variable. Am I missing something?
After a reasonable amount of thought can anyone intuitively explain why time compression has a>1 i.e for a signal x(t) why and how x(2t) is the time compressed signal?? I think I will be able to answer the first question if I know why x(2t) is the compressed version of x(t).
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