The SFU Bookstore has ordered several textbooks. They are all only recommended. There is no required textbook for this course.
Course description: This course will cover: fundamental electrical circuit quantities, and circuit elements; circuits laws (Ohm law and Kirchhoff voltage and current laws); series and parallel connections of circuit elements; operational amplifiers; network theorems; nodal and mesh analysis methods; analysis of natural, step response, and response to sinusoidal input of first (RC and RL) and second order (RLC) circuits; phasor analysis; introduction to real, reactive, and rms power concepts.
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WEEK IN REVIEW:
ASSIGNMENTS:
Posted weekly by Friday and due by the following Sunday.
MIDTERM EXAMS:
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 12:30 - 14:20, WMC 3250
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:30 - 14:20, K 9500
LAB TESTS:
TEST 1: Week of November 3, 2025, Lab sessions
TEST 2: Week of November 24, 2025, Lab sessions
FINAL EXAM:
Friday, December 5, 2025, 12:00 noon - 15:00, SSCB 9201
FAS policy on mid-terms and finals is described in Section 5.7 of the FAS Handbook.
Academic honesty and plagiarism
GRADING:
Assignments: 15%, Laboratory: 15%, Laboratory test no. 1: 5%,
Laboratory test no. 2: 5%, Midterm no. 1: 10%, Midterm no. 2: 10%, and Final: 40%.
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TEXTBOOKS:
Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 220.
SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
Tuesday, 12:30 - 14:20,
K 9500
Thursday, 12:30 - 13:20,
WMC 3250
Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
Tutorial:
Thursday, 13:30 - 14:20,
WMC 3250
Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
Labs:
ENSC 9800A Laboratories
   LA01, Monday, 11:30 - 13:00, Ali Haghayegh Jahromi, aha202 at sfu.ca
   LA02, Monday, 14:30 - 16:00, Fatemeh Jamshidi, fja22 at sfu.ca
   LA03, Monday, 16:30 - 18:00 (canceled)
   LA04, Tuesday, 8:30 - 10:00, Afrooz Haghbin, aha205 at sfu.ca
   LA05, Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00, Ali Haghayegh Jahromi, aha202 at sfu.ca
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TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS:
ensc-res at sfu.ca
ASB 9856
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PUZZLES:
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