EE 211: Circuits & Signals I

Fall 2002 Schedule: MWF 10:00am - 10:50am in Weir 102

Help Session: T 07:00pm - 09:00pm in Workman 109

Instructor: Kevin Wedeward, Office: Workman 221, Phone: 835-5708, e-mail: wedeward@nmt.edu, web-page: www.ee.nmt.edu/~wedeward/

Office Hours: MWF 09:00am - 10:00am, MWF 11:00am - 12:00pm and by appointment

Course Objective: Develop an understanding of

• physical behavior and mathematical representation of circuit elements (resistance, inductance, and capacitance)

• techniques for finding all voltages and currents in any interconnection (network) of circuit elements

Course Prerequisite: Math 132 (Calculus and Analytic Geometry II)

Required Text: "Elementary Linear Circuit Analysis, 2nd ed." by Leonard S. Bobrow

Topics:

1. Sources, resistors, instantaneous power, and Kirchhoff's Laws (chapter 1)

2. Nodal and mesh circuit analysis techniques (chapter 2)

3. Operational amplifiers, Thevenin's Theorem, and Norton's Theorem (chapter 3)

4. Inductors, capacitors, and functions (chapter 4)

5. First-order circuits (chapter 5)

6. Second-order circuits (chapter 6)

7. Sinusoids, complex numbers, and frequency-domain analysis (chapter 8)

Homework: Homework will be assigned, collected, and graded on a weekly basis. You are encouraged to work with other students so long as the written work turned in is your own.

1. HW1 due beginning of class (BOC) F 09/06/2002: Problems 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11

2. HW2 due beginning of class (BOC) F 09/13/2002: Problems 1.15, 1.16, 1.18, 1.19, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27, 1.29

3. HW3 due beginning of class (BOC) F 09/20/2002: Problems 1.38, 1.39, 1.40, 1.47, 1.49, 1.53, 1.56

4. HW4 due BOC F 09/27/2002: Problems 2.2, 2.5, 2.9, 2.10, 2.13, 2.18

5. HW5 due BOC F 10/04/2002: Problems 2.24, 2.29, 2.37, Drill Exercise 2.13

6. HW6 due BOC F 10/11/2002: Problems 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.11, 3.12, 3.16, 3.17

7. HW7 due BOC M 10/21/2002: Problems 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.34, 3.35, 3.39, 3.50, 3.51

8. HW8 due BOC F 11/01/2002: Problems 3.59, 4.2, 4.8, 4.9, 4.12, 4.15, 4.17, 4.53, 4.54

9. HW9 due BOC F 11/08/2002: Problems 4.23, 4.37, 4.42, 4.44, 4.58, 4.60, 4.78, 4.80

10. HW10 due BOC F 11/15/2002: Problems 5.3, 5.6, 5.8, 5.11, 5.19

11. HW11 due BOC W 11/20/2002: Problems 5.27, 5.28, 5.39, 5.40

12. HW12 due BOC F 12/06/2002: Problems 6.20, 6.29, 6.34, 6.42, and handout problem

13. HW13 due BOC F 12/13/2002: Problems 8.2 (assume in steady-state), 8.9, 8.14a, 8.17e,f,g (sketch in complex plane noting magnitude and angle), 8.18e,f,g (sketch in complex plane noting real and imaginary components)

Grading:

• Homework: 15%

• Three Exams: 55%

• Exam 1 on 09/30/2002

• Exam 2 on 10/23/2002

• Exam 3 on 11/22/2002

• Final Exam: 30%

  • scheduled for Monday, December 16, 6:00 p.m. in Workman 101

  • review sheet

Reading Assignments:

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

3. Appendix A

4. Chapter 3

5. Chapter 4

6. Chapter 5

7. Chapter 6

8. Sections 8.1, 8.2