Course Contents

• Electric quantities, electric signals, electric circuits. • Kirchhoff's laws, circuit elements. Resistance, series parallel combination, voltage and current dividers, resistive bridges. • Nodal analysis, loop analysis, linearity and superposition, source transformation, one ports, circuit theorems, power calculations. Dependent sources, circuit analysis with dependent sources. • The operational amplifier, basic op-amp configurations, ideal op-amp circuit analysis, summing and difference amplifiers, amplifier types. • Capacitance, inductance (including mutual inductance), natural response of RC and RL circuits. Response to DC forcing function. • AC fundamentals; RMS or effective, average and maximum values of current & voltage for sinusoidal signal wave forms.

Course Synopsis

• Electric quantities, electric signals, electric circuits. • Kirchhoff's laws, circuit elements. Resistance, series parallel combination, voltage and current dividers, resistive bridges. • Nodal analysis, loop analysis, linearity and superposition, source transformation, one ports, circuit theorems, power calculations. Dependent sources, circuit analysis with dependent sources. • The operational amplifier, basic op-amp configurations, ideal op-amp circuit analysis, summing and difference amplifiers, amplifier types. • Capacitance, inductance (including mutual inductance), natural response of RC and RL circuits. Response to DC forcing function. • AC fundamentals; RMS or effective, average and maximum values of current & voltage for sinusoidal signal wave forms.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Apply circuit reduction techniques such as series, parallel and source conversions and circuit solving for linear circuits and op-amp techniques like Mesh and Node Analysis to analyze for steady state solutions for both sinusoidal AC and DC. 2. Analyze for transients in RC and RL circuits for DC. 3. Apply phasor techniques for the solution of steady state AC response including voltage, current, power and power factor.