| Date: | Activity | Reading in Textbook | Assignments Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/25/2011 Thu |
Lecture; PSpice Demonstration (Printing DC Results in the Output File); | 1.2 Electric Circuits and Current Flow; 1.3 Systems of Units; 1.4 Voltage; 1.5 power and Energy; 1.6 Circuit Analysis and Design; 1.7 Checking on Power & Passive Sign; 2.2 Engineering and Linear Models; 2.3 Active and Passive Circuit Elements; 2.4 Resistors; 2.5 Independent Sources; 2.6 Voltmeters and Ammeters; 2.7 Dependent Sources; 2.8 Transducers; 2.9 Switches; 3.2 Kirchhoff's Laws; 3.3 Voltage Divider; 3.4 Current Divider; 3.5 Series Voltage Sources and Parallel Current Sources; 3.6 Circuit Analysis; | None |
| 08/30/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 4.2 Node Voltage Analysis of Circuits with Current Sources; 4.3 Node Voltage Analysis of Circuits with Current and Voltage Sources; | Ethics Statement |
| 09/01/2011 Thu |
Lecture; PSpice Demonstration (Using Dependent Sources); | 4.4 Node Voltage Analysis with Dependent Sources; 4.5 Mesh Current Analysis with Independent Voltage Sources; | HW01 submitted |
| 09/06/2011 Tue |
Lecture; | 4.6 Mesh Current Analysis with Current and Voltage Sources; 4.7 Mesh Current Analysis with Dependent Sources; 4.8 Node Voltage and Mesh Current Methods Compared; | PS01 submitted |
| 09/08/2011 Thu |
Lecture; PSpice Demonstration (Thévenin Equivalent Circuit) | 5.2 Source Transformations; 5.3 Superposition; 5.4 Thévenin's Theorem; | HW02 submitted |
| 09/13/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 5.5 Norton's Equivalent Circuit; 5.6 Maximum Power Transfer; | PS02 submitted |
| 09/15/2011 Thu |
Lecture; PSpice Demonstration (Creating Subcircuits) | 6.2 The Operational Amplifier; 6.3 Ideal Operational Amplifier; | HW03 submitted |
| 09/20/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 6.4 Nodal Analysis of Circuits Using Operational Amplifiers; 6.5 Design Using Operational Amplifiers; 6.6 Operational Amplifier Circuits and Linear Algebraic Equations; | PS03 submitted |
| 09/22/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 6.7 Characteristics of Practical Operational Amplifiers; The Operational Amplifier and PSpice; | HW04 submitted |
| 09/27/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 7.2 Capacitors; 7.3 Energy Storage in Capacitors; | PS04 submitted |
| 09/29/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 7.4 Series and Parallel Capacitors; 7.5 Inductors; 7.6 Energy Storage in an Inductor; | HW05 submitted |
| 10/04/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 7.7 Series and Parallel Capacitors; 7.8 Initial Conditions of Switched Circuits; | None |
| 10/06/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 7.9 Operational Amplifiers and Linear Differential Equations; | HW06 submitted |
| 10/11/2011 Tue |
Lecture; PSpice Demonstration (Transient Analysis) | 8.2 1st-Order Circuits; 8.3 The Response of a 1st-Order Circuit to a Constant Input; 8.4 Sequential Switching; | PS05 Submitted |
| 10/13/2011 Thu |
Exam I | Chapters 2 through 6 | None |
| 10/18/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 8.5 Stability of 1st-Order Circuits; 8.6 The Unit-Step Source; | HW07 submitted |
| 10/20/2011 Thu |
Lecture | The Complete Response Using PSpice; | PS06 submitted |
| 10/25/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 9.2 Differential Equation for Circuits with Two Energy Storage Elements; | HW08 submitted |
| 10/27/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 9.3 Solution of the 2nd-Order Differential Equation - The Natural Response; 9.4 Natural Response of the Unforced Parallel RLC Circuit; 9.5 Natural Response of the Critically Damped Unforced Parallel RLC Circuit; | None |
| 11/01/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 9.6 Natural Response of the Underdamped Unforced Parallel RLC Circuit; 9.7 Forced Response of an RLC Circuit; 9.8 Complete Response of an RLC circuit; 9.9 State Variable Approach to Circuit Analysis; | HW09 submitted |
| 11/03/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 10.2 Sinusoidal Sources; 10.3 Steady-State Sinusoidal Response of an RL Circuit to a Sinusoidal Forcing Function; | None |
| 11/08/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 10.4 Complex Exponential Forcing Function; 10.5 The Phasor; 10.6 Phasor relationships for R, L and C Components; | HW10 submitted |
| 11/10/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 10.7 Impedance and Admittance; 10.8 Kirchhoff's Laws Using Phasors; 10.9 Node Voltage and Mesh Current Analysis Using Phasors; 10.10 Superposition, Thévenin and Norton Equivalents, and Source Transformations; PSpice Demonstration (Printing AC Results in the Output File) | PS07 submitted |
| 11/15/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 10.11 Phasor Diagrams; 11.2 Electric Power;11.3 Instantaneous Power and Average Power; 11.4 Effective Value of a periodic Waveform; 11.5 Complex Power; | HW11 submitted |
| 11/17/2011 Tue |
Lecture | 11.6 Power Factor; 11.7 Power Superposition Principle; 11.8 Maximum Power Transfer Theorem; 11.9 Coupled Inductors; 11.10 The Ideal Transformer; 11.12 Design Example - Maximum Power Transfer | None |
| 11/22/2011 Thu |
Lecture | 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 Gain, Shift, and the Network Function; 13.3 Bode Plots; 13.4 Resonant Circuits; 13.5 Frequency Response of Op Amp Circuits; | HW12 submitted, PS08 submitted |
| 11/29/2011 Tue |
Lecture | None | |
| 12/01/2011 Thu |
Exam II | Chapters 6 through 11 and 13. | None |
| 12/06/2011 Tue |
Review | Chapters 2 through 6 | None |
| 12/08/2011 Thu |
Review | Chapters 7 through 11 and 13 | None |
| 12/15/2011 Thu |
Final Exam | 8:00am - 10:30am | None |