Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Fundamental electrical circuit quantities, and circuit elements; circuits laws such as Ohm law, Kirchoff's voltage and current laws, 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. In addition, the course will discuss the worker safety implications of both electricity and common laboratory practices such as soldering. Students with credit for MSE 250 cannot take this course for further credit. Quantitative.

COURSE DETAILS:

• Circuit elements: 
  - voltage sources, current sources, resistors, diodes, transistors
• Kirchhoff current (KCL) and voltage (KVL) laws
• Operational amplifiers (op-amps) 
  - ideal models of op-amps 
  - inverting and non-inverting op-amps 
  - the op-amp and a dependent source
• Circuit analysis techniques 
  - nodal and loop (mesh) analysis 
  - linearity, superposition, and source transformations 
  - Thevenin and Norton theoremso 
  - maximum power transfer
• First order circuits 
  - inductors and capacitors 
  - response of RL and RC circuits
• Second order circuits 
  - series and parallel RLC circuits 
  - step response
• Sinusoidal steady-state analysis 
  - sinusoidal response 
  - phasor analysis 
  - real, active, and complex power.
• Polyphase circuits

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Any of the books listed below may be used for the course. They will be available through the library reserve. They are listed in alphabetical order:

• Norman Balabanian, Electric Circuits, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1994. (4 hours) 
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• Raymond A. DeCarlo and Pen-Min Lin, Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasors, and Laplace Transforms Approaches, 2/e, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001. (4 hours)
• James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits Revisited and PSpice Supplement Package, 10/e, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2015. (4 hours)
• Michael Reed and Ron Rohrer, Applied Introductory Circuit Analysis, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999. (4 hours)
• Roland E. Thomas and Albert J. Rosa, The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, 7e, John Wiley, 2011. (4 hours)

Additional references on the same topic. Listed in alphabetical order:

• Artice M. Davis, Linear Circuit Analysis, PWS Publishing Co., Boston, MA 1998. (24 hours)
• Richard C. Dorf and James A. Svoboda, Introduction to Electric Circuits (Fourth edition), John Wiley & Sons, 1998. (24 hours)
• Joseph Edminster and Mahmood Nahvi, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1996. (24 hours)
• Sergio Franco, Electric Circuits Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. (24 hours)

A great source of interesting information:

• Richard M. White and Roger W. Doering, Electrical Engineering Uncovered, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1997. (3 days)