1. Getting started in MATLAB and an introduction to systems and signal processing -- 2. Impulse functions, impulse responses and convolution -- 3. The steady state response of analogue networks to cosinusoids and to the complex exponential e[superscript j[omega]t] -- 4. Phasors -- 5. Line spectra and the Fourier series -- 6. Spectral density functions and the Fourier transform -- 7. The sampling and digitization of signals -- 8. The discrete Fourier transform -- 9. The fast Fourier transform and some applications -- 10. The steady state response of analogue systems by consideration of the excitation e[superscript st] -- 11. Natural responses, transients and stability -- 12. The Laplace transform -- 13. Synthesis of analogue filters -- 14. An introduction to digital networks and the z transform -- 15. Synthesis of digital filters -- 16. Correlation -- 17. Processing techniques for bandpass signals -- App. A. Listings of selected MATLAB programs