Analysis of direct current and alternating current linear electric circuits; laws and concepts that characterize their behavior. Operational amplifiers; sinusoidal steady-state analysis: phasor concept; single phase circuits power analysis. 

3 credits

Prerequisites: MATE 3032 (Calculus II)

Corequisites: FISI 3172 (Physics II), MATE 3063 (Calculus III)

This course is designed to introduce 3rd year students to electric circuit analysis techniques, including the Kirchhoff’s Laws.  Basic circuit elements such as, transformer, operational amplifiers, resistors, inductors, capacitors, dependent and independent sources are introduced. Single phase circuits power analysis and first-order linear circuit analysis techniques are also presented.

After completing the course, each student should be able to analyze a DC or an AC electric circuit using the techniques learned in class. In addition, the student should be able to solve circuit problem containing operational amplifiers. The student should be able to perform sinusoidal steady-state power calculations and to analyze first order RC, RL, and RLC circuits.

• Circuit variables and units
• Circuit Elements, Kirchhoff’s Laws.
• Resistive Circuits.
• Techniques of Circuit Analysis
• The ideal Operational Amplifier and its inverting and non-inverting configurations
• Inductance (L), Capacitance (C) and Mutual Inductance (the transformer in the time domain)
• The Phasor and the frequency domain
• Power; instantaneous, average (P), reactive (Q), complex (S) and power factor (pf). Maximum power transfer
• RC, RL and RLC Circuits