Class Time

Fall Semester

Course Description

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This course will cover: fundamental electrical circuit quantities, and circuit elements; circuits laws such as Ohm law, Kirchoff's voltage and current law, along with series and parallel circuits; operational amplifiers; network theorems; nodal and mesh methods; analysis of natural and step response of first (RC and RL), as well as second order (RLC) circuits; real, reactive and rms power concepts.

Topics

This skeleton outline is the core that is expected to be covered by the instructor in the actual course offering. Note that the order and emphasis may differ (within reasonable limits) from one offering to another.

• Introduction. Models vs. physical components. SI system. Circuit variables: current, voltages, power.
• Models. KCL and KVL. Two-terminal elements. Calculation of currents and voltages in simple circuits.
• Resistors. Sources. Capacitors. Inductors. Calculation of currents and voltages in simple circuits
• Calculation of currents and voltages in simple circuits. Thevenin's and Norton's theorems. Maximum power transfer.
• Two-ports. Controlled sources. Op-amps.
• Graph theory. Set of independent voltages and currents. Nodal equations.
• Loop and mesh equations. Writing nodal and mesh equations for simple circuits. Writing nodal and mesh equations for circuits with dependent sources.
• RC, RL and RLC circuits. Differential equation solutions (homogeneous and non-homogeneous)
• Periodic steady state response: simple RC and RL circuits. Phasor's calculus.
• More on phasors and complex numbers. Notion of impedance (resistance and reactance). Notion of admittance (conductance and susceptance). Introduction to real, reactive, and rms power concepts. Solving circuits with phasors

Software Tools:

PSPICE and MATLAB

Reference Books

Some books that have been used in past offerings of this course are:

• Electric Circuits by Norman Balabanian. McGraw Hill, New York. 1994.
• Linear Circuit Analysis: A Time Domain and Pahsor Approach by DeCarlo and Lin. Prentice Hall. 1995.
• Electric Circuits (Fifth edition) by Nilsson and Riedel, Addison Weseley, 1996.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of ENSC 151-3, PHYS 121 and PHYS 131 is required for students wishing to take this course. This course must be taken in conjunction with MATH 232 and MATH 310.

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