This video explains where the tau in the continuous-time convolution integral comes from and what it means.
This video was created to support courses in the Engineering Department on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University. Links to other videos can be found at http://www.engineeringvideos.org and http://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/signals-and-systems
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