EE 230: Circuit Analysis I

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Course description: This course is meant to develop Electrical Engineering Circuit Analysis skills in DC and AC circuits.  It includes circuit laws and theorems, mesh and node analysis.  Natural and step response of RL, RC, and RLC circuits.

Pre-requisites: PHYS 222 or concurrent, MATH 321 or concurrent

Professor: Rebecca Bates (bates@mnsu.edu) 
Contact Information

Course Hours and Location
Lectures MWF 9-9:50 TR E224
Recitation Sections: M 3-3:50
or T 12-12:50		 WH284
WH288A

Office Hours
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
4-6pm by Appointment Only 4-5pm* 10-11
1-4**		 2-3 10-12**
*cancelled on January 25, February 22, March 29 and April 26
**some of these hours will be held in the ACC

Prof. Bates will also read and respond to email questions within 24 hours.  You can usually expect responses to questions the same day if received prior to 10pm. If things that are useful for the entire class come up, they will be posted on the announcement section of the class webpage so check it regularly.

Course Materials
Text book: Electric Circuits, 6th ed., James W. Nilsson & Susan A. Riedel.  Prentice-Hall, 2001.

Course Syllabus

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will have the ability to:

  1. Analyze series and parallel DC and AC circuits using Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's current law and Kirchhoff's voltage law.
  2. Use impedance and admittance parameters in circuit analysis.
  3. Simplify DC and AC circuits using current divider and voltage divider circuit.
  4. Analyze DC and AC circuits, with more than one independent soruce, using node voltages, mesh currents and superposition.
  5. Calculate voltages, currents, power, energy in DC and AC circuits.
  6. Recognize the differences between dependent and independent sources.
  7. Simplify DC and AC circuit analysis using course transformations, Thévenin equivalent circuits and Norton equivalent circuits.
  8. Recognize when power is being absorbed or delivered in DC and AC circuits.
  9. Understand the condition where maximum power transfer occurs in DC and AC circuits.
  10. Understand the concept of amplification and have the ability to analyze operational amplifier circuits; calculating output/input voltages for inverting amplifier, summing amplifier, non-inverting amplifier and difference amplifier circuits.
  11. Understand the physical characteristics, mathematical expressions and energy relationships for resistors, inductors, and capacitors in DC and AC circuits.
  12. Understand the concepts, mathematical representations and differences between mutual inductance and self inductance.
  13. Analyze the transient responses (current and voltages) in series and parallel RL and RC circuits.
  14. Analyze the transient and step responses for RLC circuits.
  15. Determine the sinusoidal steady state response (voltage, current, power) for AC circuits.

Grading
Homework: 15%
Weekly quizzes: 20%
Midterm Exams: 40% (2 exams on 25 February and 11 April)
Final exam: 25% (on 11 May)

Course Tools
Password protected webpages: The Computer Science Lab computers host these pages.  The assignments and solutions will be available on the web but will be password protected.  Instructions for signing up for a password will be on the course webpage.

Other Information

EE 230 Handouts and Assignments

EE 230 Grading, Collaboration and Make-up Policies

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Page last modified by R.A. Bates on 05/17/2005 10:11 PM.