Fall 2016
ENSC 220
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I

(3-1-1)

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TOPICS WEEK IN REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS

SCHEDULE STAFF LABS TUTORIAL PUZZLES WEB SITES INFO

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.

Students with credit for ENSC 125-5 cannot take this course for further credit.

Prerequisites: (PHYS 121 or PHYS 126 or PHYS 141) and ENSC 120.

Co-requisites: MATH 232 and MATH 310.

TOPICS:

WEEK IN REVIEW:

  • 1. September 5, 2016
  • 2. September 12, 2016
  • 3. September 19, 2016
  • 4. September 26, 2016
  • 5. October 3, 2016
  • 6. October 10, 2016
  • 7. October 17, 2016
  • 8. October 24, 2016
  • 9. October 31, 2016 (revised)
  • 10. November 7, 2016
  • 11. November 14, 2016
  • 12. November 21, 2016
  • 13. November 28, 2016
  • 14. December 5, 2016 (class cancelled due to snow storm)

    ASSIGNMENTS:
    Posted weekly by Friday and due by the following Sunday.

  • Assignment: Plagiarism Tutorial (renamed and revised)
  • Assignment #1 (renamed)
  • Assignment #2
  • Assignment #3
  • Assignment #4
  • Assignment #5
  • Assignment #6
  • Assignment #7
  • Assignment #8
  • Assignment #9
  • Assignment #10
  • Assignment #11
  • Assignment #12
  • Assignment #13 (optional, practice only, not to be submitted)

    EXAMS:

    MIDTERM EXAM:
    Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 14:30 - 15:20, AQ 3181
    Monday, November 14, 2016, 14:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181

    FINAL EXAM:
    Friday, December 16, 2016, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM, SSCC 9001 Chemistry

    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%, Midterm 1 10%, Midterm 2 20%, and Final 40%.
    Click here to see your grade , midterm exam 1, midterm exam 2, final exam, and the overall scores distribution charts.

    RESOURCES: Conflict resolution

    TEXTBOOKS:

    Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 220 by typing "ENSC 220" (with the space) in the search window.

    Old ENSC 220 notes are available from the local site: ENSC 220 course notes. Students taking the course in Fall 2016 are kindly advised to use recommended texts.

    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    Monday, 14:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181
    Wednesday, 14:30 - 15:20, AQ 3181
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

    Tutorial:
    Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181

    Labs:
    ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)
    LA01: Tuesday, 14:30 - 16:50, Jordan Lui, jdlui at sfu.ca
    LA02: Thursday, 14:30 - 16:50, Zhida Li, zhidal at sfu.ca
    LA03: Friday, 09:30 - 11:50, Zhendong Cao, zcao at sfu.ca

    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

    LABORATORY STAFF:

    LABORATORIES:

  • Lab teams
  • Weekly schedule
  • Toolkit sale
  • List of goodies in your bag, revised
  • Location of manuals
  • Introduction to ENSC 220 Lab, lecture given on September 16, 2008 (PDF file, size 2,421,609 bytes)
  • Practical guide to errors and error propagation by Glenn Chapman
  • Digital Multimeter (DMM) notes by Ash Parameswaran
  • Fluke 45 manual
  • Application note: TDS screen capture via the RS-232 option
  • Useful hints
  • Coil winding notes
  • Instructions for writing ENSC 220 Lab reports
  • Writing Laboratory Reports & Journals
  • Introduction to ENSC 220 Lab, Ash Parameswaran (2001): slides (lecture, demo) and pdf files (lecture, demo).

    ENSC 9800 Lab photo courtesy of Ash Parameswaran:

    Lab bench orientation:
  • Part 1 - PS and DMM (experiments to be completed by September 18, 2016)
  • Part 2 - FG and OS (experiments to be completed by October 30, 2016)

  • Lab #1: KCL and KVL (report due October 2, 2016)
       Required: Lab #1 worksheet

  • Lab #2: Op Amp (report due October 16, 2016)
       Required: Lab #2 cover sheet
       Op Amp TL071 data sheet
       Optional material:
  • Capturing the Screenshot on Oscilloscope HMO 1002 Series by Zhendong Cao
       ENSC 220 Lab 2 supplement by Glenn Chapman
  • Lab #2 supplement notes by Ash Parameswaran
  • Suggested breadboard wiring layout by Ash Parameswaran

  • Lab #3: RL and RC circuits (revised) (report due November 20, 2016) (deadline postponed)
  • Lab #3 supplement notes by Ash Parameswaran

  • Lab #4: RLC circuits (report due November 27, 2016)

  • Lab #5: AM radio (report due December 11, 2016)
       Lab #5 instructons for Fall 2016 (PDF file)

    The Labs were adopted (with minor changes) from the old ENSC 125 course.
    Credits for their design are due to the past instructors of ENSC 125.

    TUTORIAL:

  • Wednesday 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 3181

    PUZZLES:

  • Puzzle #1: Matching
  • Puzzle #2: Ideal world
  • Puzzle #3: KVL and KCL
  • Puzzle #4: Infinite ladder
  • Puzzle #5: Superposition
  • Puzzle #6: Passivity
  • Puzzle #7: Magic box

    Please let me know if you have a puzzle of your own and I will gladly add it to the list.

    WEB SITES OF INTEREST:

  • ENSC380: MATLAB Tutorials: Matlab-Primer.pdf and MIT-Matlab-Tutorial.pdf
  • PSpice Evaluation Version Downloads
  • 5Spice Analysis Software
  • ENSC 220 Summer 2008
  • ENSC 220 Fall 2005
  • ENSC 220 Fall 2003
    Generic links:
  • ENSC Course Information
  • ENSC 220-3 Electric Circuits I

    INFO:

    TOPICS WEEK IN REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE STAFF

    LABS TUTORIAL PUZZLES WEB SITES INFO

    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Tue Dec 20 12:13:31 PST 2016.