Stanford SEE - The Fourier transform and Its applications. Lecture 1.

This presentation is delivered by the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

Instructor (Brad Osgood):We are on the air. Okay. Welcome, one and all. And as it said on the TV when you were walking in, but just to make sure everybody knows, this is EE261, The Fourier Transform and its Applications, Fourier Transforms et al., Fourier. And my name is Brad Osgood.

Circulating around are two documents that give you information about the class. There's a general description of the class, course information, how we're gonna proceed, some basic bookkeeping items — I'll tell you a little bit more about that in just a second — and also a syllabus and a schedule, and I will also say a little bit more about that in just a second.

Let me introduce our partners in crime in this course. We have three course assistants, Thomas John — Thomas, wanna stand up? Where's Thomas? There we go. Rajiv Agarwal. Did I spell that right? Very good. Rajiv, you wanna stand up? There's Rajiv. And Nicomedus — okay so far? — M. Wanna correct that? Okay. That's Nicomedus, everybody. Thank you. All right.

And we will be setting up times for the review sessions and so on, all right? So that will be forthcoming.

We have a web page for the course. Some of you may have already visited that, but let me give you the — and the address is on one of the sheets that's being passed around, but let me write that up now so you can be sure to visit it and register for the class because it is on the web page that you will find course handouts, course information.

I will email people via the web page, all right? So you have to be registered. If I have to send an announcement to the class, post an announcement and send out an email, then that'll be done through the web page, and you have to be registered on the web page in order to get those emails. I won't be doing it through Axess, all right?

So it is at, like many of the other E classes, http:// — however you do that, wherever the colons go — where is it here? — eeclass.stanford.edu — you can find it very easily — edu/ee261, okay? Go there if you have not already and register yourself for the class. All right.

Now, let me say a little bit about the information that you have. I wanna say a little bit more about the mechanics. I'll talk more about the content in just a second. Let me say a little bit about the syllabus and schedule and the course reader. The syllabus is, as I said on the top, an outline of what we're gonna be doing, I hope a fairly accurate outline of what we're going to be doing, but it's not a contract, all right? So there will be a natural ebb and flow of the course as things go along, and when we get to particular material or what we cover in what order, this is more or less I say accurate, but it is not written in stone.

What you should use it for, however, is to plan your reading, so things will be much better for all of us if you read along with the material as the syllabus — as the schedule basically outlines, all right, because there are times when I'm gonna wanna skip around a little bit. There are times when I'm gonna derive things. There are times when I'm not gonna derive things. And you'll get much more out of the lectures, our time together, if you've read the material thoroughly before you come to class. So that's one thing I ask you to do.

We have two exams scheduled. We have a midterm exam and a final exam. I'm gonna skip to the midterm exam.