1. Various common signals were generated using MATLAB, including unit impulse, unit step, ramp, sinc, sine, sawtooth, square, and triangular signals. Both continuous and discrete forms were produced.
2. Operations on the generated signals included plotting their amplitude over time or index, adding titles and labels to figures, and displaying the results in different subplot configurations for comparison.
3. Common periodic signals like sine and square waves were generated along with aperiodic signals such as ramp, impulse and step functions to demonstrate the creation of basic continuous and discrete time signals in MATLAB for analysis and simulation.