Instructor:
Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, M.Sc., P.E.
erodriguezma@ewu.edu
Phone: (509) 359-7004
Office: CEB 332
Handouts:
Notes:
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Test on Wed, March 19, 2008 at 8am.
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Solutions posted below.
Solutions:
Solution 1
Day to day (approximate):
Week 1
Day
1: Syllabus, administrative
issues. Quiz 0 (not for grade) on series
and parallel resistors. Series circuits KVL.
Voltage divider. Homework 1 assigned.
Day 2: Parallel circuits, combination circuits, KCL. Current divider. Loaded voltage dividers. Open and short circuit.
Day 3: Introduction to Multisim. Voltage sources in series, parallel. Voltage regulation. Circuit examples.
Lab #1: Series parallel circuits.
Week 2
(Short
week, Monday is MLK Jr. Day)
Day
4: Discussion on homework
1. Current sources.
Source conversion. Superposition
theorem. Homework 1 due. Homework 2 assigned.
Day 5: Thevenin and Norton theorems. Maximum power transfer theorem. Delta-Wye conversions.
Lab #2: Thevenin theorem and maximum power transfer.
Week 3
Day 6: Discussion on homework 2. Branch current method and mesh analysis. Homework 2 due.
Homework 3 assigned.
Day 7: Supermesh. Dependent sources. Mesh analysis with dependent sources.
Day 8: Test #1
Lab #3: Mesh and nodal analysis.
Week 4
Day
9: Discussion on homework 3.
Examples on mesh analysis and superposition. Nodal analysis. Homework 3 due. Homework 4 assigned.
Day 10: Supernodes. Nodal analysis with dependent sources.
Day 11: Alternating wave properties: frequency, amplitude, period, phase. Different voltage measurements: RMS, peak-to-peak, peak, average. Phasors. AC sources in series.
Lab #4: Norton’s theorem and and source conversions.
Week 5
Day 12: Phasors. Homework 4 due. Homework 5 assigned.
Day 13: Phasors (continued). Intro to capacitors.
Day 14: Capacitors.
RC circuits. Voltage across and current through capacitors.
Lab #5 No lab! Test #2 instead.
Week 6
Day 15: Capacitive
Reactance. Intro to inductors. Inductive
reactance. Inductors in series, parallel. Homework
5 due. Homework 6
assigned.
Day 16: Review of test 2 (Mesh and nodal analysis).
Day 17: Reactive circuits: inductors and capacitors.
Lab #6: Capacitors
Week 7
(President’s Day,
Day 18: Series RC circuits with AC sources. Homework 6 due. Homework 7 assigned.
Day 19: Parallel RC circuits with AC sources.
Lab #7: RC
circuits with alternating sources.
Week 8
Day 20: Series parallel RC circuits. Homework 6 due. Homework 7 assigned.
Day 21: Power
Day 22: Test #3.
Lab #8: Oscilloscope
and sinusoidal series circuits.
Week 9
Day 23: Inductors, RL circuits. Homework 7 due. Homework 8 assigned.
Day 24: Discussion on Test #3. Series resonant circuits.
Day 25: Parallel resonant circuits.
Lab #9: Resonant
circuits.
Week 10
Day 23: Quality factor. Frequency
selective filters. Homework 8 due.
Exercises assigned (but not due).
Day 24: Frequency selective filters (cont’d). Class evaluation.
Day 25: Test #4
Lab #10: No lab.
Notes:
Phasors.
Notes on 3x3 determinants
Derivation of RC solution with a DC source
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