EE 211: Circuits & Signals I

Instructor:  Rene Arechiga

• Workman 211

• Phone: 835-6881

• rene@ee.nmt.edu

Course Objectives:

• The course presents fundamental information about digital circuits, circuit elements (resistance, capacitance, and inductance), and develops techniques for finding voltages and currents in any interconnection (network) of these elements. Additional topics include: Operational Amplifiers, basic concepts of Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog Converters, power, and an introduction to motors.
  

  The course will be dealing with mathematical descriptions of the above elements and networks, but the goal is for physical understanding of their behavior. These mathematical descriptions will be linear algebraic or differential equations or their corresponding Laplace transform. The course could be more generally thought of as an introduction to the analysis of linear systems because the same analysis applies to mechanical, electrical, thermal, and other physical problems as long as they are linear.

Text:

• Elementary Linear Circuit Analysis (Second Edition).

  Leonard S. Bobrow, Oxford University Press 1987.
  (errata: (http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~bobrow/elca-err.html)

Lectures:

• The lectures are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 – 10:50 in Workman Center 113.

Homework:

• The homeworks will be assigned one per week. There will be a short quiz every Friday. There will be two or three partial exams and a final.

Office Hours:

Proposed grade distribution:

Homework: 20%

Weekly quizes: 10%

Partial exams: 40%

Final exam: 30%