Course Catalog Description: Survey course in Electrical Engineering and circuit solving
Credits and contact hours: 3 credits; 1 hour and 20-minute session twice a week, every week
Pre-Requisite Courses: 01:640:152 and 02:750:227
Pre-Requisite by Topic: (01:640:251 or 01:640:291) and (01:750:227)
Topics Covered:
- Introduction; Current; Voltage
- Ohm’s and Kirchhoff’s laws; Power; Series/parallel connections
- Voltage/current divider; Practical sources; Measuring current/voltage
- Maximum power transfer; Source transformation; Node voltage method
- Mesh current method; Inductors
- Capacitors; Series/parallel L & C Connections; RC, RL circuits
- Alternating current, Phasors; Circuits in the phasor domain
- Circuit solving in the phasor domain
- Average, effective value of a waveform; AC Power; Power factor correction
- Inverting/noninverting/differential operational amplifiers
- Feedback; Differential operational amplifiers; Analog computers; Frequency response, Active filters, Transformers
Textbook: Hambley, A. R., Electrical Engineering, Principles and Applications, Prentice Hall.