EE 211: Circuits & Signals I

Fall 2003 Schedule: MWF 10:00am - 10:50am in Weir 102

Help Session: T 07:00pm - 09:00pm in Weir 102

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

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

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

Topics:

  1. Charge, current, voltage, 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 and complex numbers (beginning of 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) W 09/03/2003: Handout

  2. HW2 due BOC W 09/10/2003: Handout

  3. HW3 due BOC F 09/19/2003: Drill Exercises 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9; Problems 1.17, 1.21, 1.22

  4. HW4 due BOC F 09/26/2003: Drill Exercises 1.11, 1.12; Problem 1.41; Drill Exercise 2.6; Problems 2.6, 2.9, 2.11

  5. HW5 due BOC W 10/08/2003: Drill Exercises 2.11, 2.12, Problems 2.6 (solve for mesh currents), 2.23, 2.28

  6. HW6 due BOC W 10/15/2003: Drill Exercises 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, Problems 3.6, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16

  7. HW7 due BOC W 10/22/2003: Problems 3.20, 3.22; Drill Exercises 3.9, 3.11, 3.12; Problems 3.31, 3.37, 3.48

  8. HW8 due BOC M 10/27/2003: Drill Exercises 3.15, 3.17; Problem 3.62

  9. HW9 due BOC F 11/07/2003: Problems 4.2, 4.12, 4.23, 4.42, 4.43, 4.53, repeat 4.53 to find equivalent capacitance when all 3H inductors are replaced with 3F capacitors

  10. HW10 due BOC F 11/14/2003: Drill Exercise 4.19, Problems 4.55, 4.59, 4.72, 4.80

  11. HW11 due BOC F 11/21/2003: Problems 5.1, 5.2, 5.10, 5.25, 5.42, 5.43

  12. HW12 due BOC F 12/05/2003: Drill Exercises 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 (change inductor value from 1H to 1/2H), Problems 6.2, 6.8

  13. HW13 due beginning of class (BOC) F 12/12/2003: Handout

Grading:

Reading Assignments:

  1. Chapter 1

  2. Chapter 2

  3. Chapter 3

  4. Chapter 4

  5. Chapter 5

  6. Chapter 6