Methods
Textbook:
Mastering Engineering with Pearson eText for Electric Circuits, 11 Edition ISBN-13: 9780134743844
Software:
Mathcad 14 (available on Bay Cloud and in Sc N237) will be used extensively to simulate the behaviors of circuits.
Grades
Grades will be weighted and curved. Attendance - 10%; Homework - 30%; Midterm - 20%; Final - 40%.
Assignments must be turned in on Blackboard using xmcd files only.
Late assignments will be discounted at 1% per hour late. Assignments may not be submitted after 100 hours without a documented absence excuse.
Topics
• Resistive circuits
o Ohm’s law
o Kirchhoff’s laws
• Analysis Techniques
o Node voltage & mesh current methods
o Linear circuits & superposition
o Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits
• AC Analysis
o Complex algebra & sinusoidal signals
o RLC circuits
• AC power & three-phase circuits
o Average power, complex power, power factor
o Balanced three-phase circuit
• Additional topics
o Transformers
o Operational amplifiers
o Frequency response
Student Learning Outcomes
• Understand the operation of basic circuit elements – resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers,
operational amplifiers.
• Analyze and compute electrical quantities of voltage, current and power in a circuit with DC and
sinusoidal inputs.
• Utilize circuit analysis software and hardware to compute electrical quantities.
• Develop greater general knowledge of household electronic devices.