Convolution

Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
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You keep asking for answers without making any attempts on your own on solving the problems. This isn't the way this thread works.
 

JoeJester

Joined Apr 26, 2005
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if you don't know whether I have attempted or not then keep shut,
You failed to post your attempts, so that indicates to me that you have done nothing to solve the problem.

Why should the members bother to go through an analysis when you chose not to abide by the forum rules.
 

bertus

Joined Apr 5, 2008
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Hello salmanshaheen_88,

Georacer and JoeJester are right.
You did not show any attemp on you solution.

Without that we can not see where you got stuck.

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steveb

Joined Jul 3, 2008
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ok my question is that how I will pass x(t) through h(t) as x(t) has magnitude greater than h(t) ???
The idea of "passing through" is not a physical one, but instead is the idea of multiplying, shifting/sliding and adding/integrating. To see this graphically, go back to the page that BenjaminSweet recommended and use your mouse to draw your signals as best you can. Make sure that you make the heights, widths and shapes of the waveforms as close as possible to your example. Then use your mouse to slide one signal by the other, and you will see a graphical answer that is almost the answer to your problem. It will display all of the regions, shapes and kinks of the real answer.

Once you can visualize what is happening, then you can write out the integral equation which does this exact calculation. The integrals are trivially easy, but the hard part is to figure out how to break the integral into pieces that are valid over a resticted time period. You will end up with a solution that has 5 pieces, I think. To help you along, I'll identify the regions where you will get different functional answers.

t < -1
-1 < t < 1
1 < t < 3
3 < t < 5
t > 5

Did you notice that the graphical answer displayed these 5 regions?

Try writing out the integrals for each of these 5 cases. If you can't do it completely or with confidence, post what you are able to do, and then we can step you through the process.
 

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salmanshaheen_88

Joined Mar 5, 2009
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my professor told me that in convolution we pass one signal from another, in fact convolution means multiplication. but my question about this problem is that how it is possible to pass a signal with high amplitude through a low amplitude signal
 

steveb

Joined Jul 3, 2008
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my professor told me that in convolution we pass one signal from another, in fact convolution means multiplication. but my question about this problem is that how it is possible to pass a signal with high amplitude through a low amplitude signal
That is the exact question I tried to answer. Did you try what I suggested? Did you go back to the page and create your own signal with a high amplitude? If you do that, you will see how it is possible to pass a signal with a high amplitude by (not through) a low amplitude signal.

Convolution does not in fact mean multiplication, although it does correspond to multiplication in the frequency domain, but that's a totally different concept. In the time domain, convolution is a process of multiplying, shifting and adding for discrete time signals, and it is a process of multiplying, sliding and integrating for continuous time signals. Note that one of the signals is flipped on the time axis (like a mirror image) for the sliding/integrating process.
 
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