This document describes a lab experiment on filtering a non-stationary signal. The objective is to understand the effect of poles and zeros on frequency response using MATLAB. A signal containing 10Hz, 65Hz and 200Hz sinusoids is generated. Low pass, band pass and high pass filters are designed to extract each component. FIR filters provide linear phase but are slower while IIR filters are faster but do not provide linear phase. The lab demonstrates how to extract desired information from a signal using different filter types.