INEL 3105

Spring 2001

Course Meeting Schedule

Week 1

Meeting 1 (1/17): Introduction to course

Discuss syllabus; What is Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.
Meeting 2 (1/19): Circuit Variables and Units.
Electric circuit; Assumptions for circuit theory; Problem solving steps; SI of units; Voltage
Assigned Problems: Drill 1.2, 1.5 page 10; Problem 1.1
Week 2

Meeting 1 (1/22): Circuit Variables and Units (cont.).  Circuit Elements.

Current; Ideal Basic Circuit Element; Passive Sign Convention; Power and Energy;
Voltage and Current Sources
Assigned Problems: Drill 1.8, 1.11 page 14 & 17; Problems: 1.6,
1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.13, 1.16, 1.18, 1.27, 1.28
Meeting 2 (1/24): Circuit Elements.
Review problems; Active vs. Passive elements; Ohm's Law.
Meeting 3 (1/26): Circuit Elements. Kirchhoff's Laws.
Quiz 1. Power in a resistor. Definition of node. Kirchhoff's current law (KCL).
Week 3

Meeting 4 (1/29): Kirchhoff's Laws.

Definition of loop. Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL). Definition of elements in series.
Meeting 5 (1/31): Circuit Elements and Kirchhoff's laws.
Examples of use of Ohm's law, KVL, and KCL. Review of matrices.

Assigned Problems: Drill 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, page 44; Drill 2.6, 2.7, page 50.
Problems 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.21, 2.25, 2.26, 2.29, page 53.

Meeting 6 (2/2): Resistive circuits.
Resistors in series and in parallel.
Week 4

Meeting 7 (2/5): Resistive circuits.

Resistors in parallel and examples. Distribute ece.uprm.edu accounts for students. Explain basic unix concepts.
Meeting 8 (2/7): Resistive circuits.
Quiz # 2. Voltage divider and current divider circuit.

Assigned Problems: Drill 3.1, page 69, Drill 3.2 page 72.
Problems 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.14, 3.15.

Meeting 9 (2/9): Resistive circuits.
Voltage divider and current divider. Measuring voltage and current.
Week 5

Meeting 10 (2/12): Resistive circuits.

Measuring voltage and current. Wheatstone bridge.

Assigned Problems: Drill 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6.
Problems 3.16, 3.17, 3.20 a&b, 3.23, 3.26, 3.27 a & b, 3.28, 3.29.

Meeting 11 (2/14): Resistive circuits.
Delta to Wye (Pi to Tee) Transformations.

Assigned Problems:
Problems 3.31, 3.33, 3.36, 3.37, 3.45, 3.46, 3.48, 3.50, 3.51, 3.52, 3.53, 3.54, 3.55, 3.56.

Meeting 12 (2/16): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Terminology.
Week 6

Meeting 13 (2/20) Tuesday but Monday classes.

Review.
Exam 1 (Chapters 1 to 3) from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in S-230.
Introduction to the node-voltage method.
Meeting 14 (2/21): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Node-voltage method with independent sources.

Assigned Problems: Drill 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7.

Meeting 15 (2/23) Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Node-voltage method with dependent sources.
Introduction to the Mesh-current method.

Assigned Problems: Drill 4.11, 4.12, 4.13.
Problems 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13, 4.20, 4.21, 4.23, 4.27, 4.28, 4.29, 4.30, 4.31, 4.32, 4.33.

Week 7

Meeting 16 (2/26): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.

Mesh-current method with independent and dependent sources.
Source transformations.
Meeting 17 (2/28): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Quiz 3. Source transformations.
Meeting 18 (3/2): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Thevenin and Norton Equivalents.
Week 8

Meeting 19 (3/5): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.

Thevenin and Norton Equivalents.
Meeting 19 (3/7): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Maximum power transfer. Superposition.

Assigned Problems: Drill 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.23, 4.25, 4.26.
Problems 4.34, 4.35, 4.37, 4.38, 4.40, 4.51, 4.52, 4.53, 4.54 (a), 4.56, 4.58 (a), 4.59, 4.62, 4.66, 4.71, 4.72, 4.74, 4.75, 4.77, 4.79, 4.80, 4.81.

Meeting 20 (3/9): Techniques of Circuit Analysis.
Discuss exam 1 solution.
Week 9

Meeting 21 (3/12): Techniques of Circuit Analysis. OpAmps.

Superposition in circuits with dependent sources.
Introduction to Operational Amplifiers (OpAmps).

Assigned Problems: Drill 4.27, 4.28.
Problems 4.83, 4.84, 4.85, 4.86, 4.87, 4.88.

Meeting 22 (3/14): OpAmps.
OpAmps Terminal voltages and currents.
Meeting 23 (3/16): OpAmps
Inverting Amplifier. Summing-Amplifier circuit. Non-Inverting Amplifier.
Difference Amplifier circuit.

Assigned Problems: Drill 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (a) and (b) [only derive 5.24], 5.6.
Problems 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 5.15, 5.20.

Week 10

Meeting 24 (3/19): Inductance and  Capacitance

Inductor and Capacitor. Voltage and current in inductor.
Meeting 25 (3/20): Exam 2 (Chapter 4) 6:00pm to 8:00pm in S-113

Meeting 26 (3/21): Inductance and Capacitance

Power and energy in inductor. Current in capacitor.
Week 11

Meeting 27 (3/26): Capacitor

Voltage, Power and Energy in capacitor.
Quiz 4: OpAmps
Meeting 28 (3/28): Inductor, Capacitor and Mutual Inductance.
Series-parallel combinations of inductance and capacitance.
Mutual inductance.
Meeting 29 (3/30): Mutual Inductance.
Derivation of dot convention. Mutually induced voltages.

Assigned Problems: Drill 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.
Problems 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.12, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16, 6.17, 6.18,
6.20, 6.21, 6.22, 6.23, 6.24, 6.25.

Week 12

Meeting 30 (4/2): Mutual Inductance

The use of dot convention to write voltage equations.

Assigned problems: Handout (problems on mutual inductance).

Meeting 31 (4/4): Phasor and the frequency domain.
Review of sinusoidal signals. RMS.
Assigned Problems: Problems 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.7, 9.8
Date (4/6) Justas. No class.

Week 13

Spring Break.

Week 14

Date (4/16) Holiday- Jose de Diego

Meeting 32 (4/18): Phasor and the frequency domain.

Continuation review of sinusoidal signals. Intro. to phasor.
Tomorrow: PSPICE Seminar by Jose Joaquin De Jesus. Time: 10:30am and 4:30pm in INCADEL.
Meeting 33 (4/20): Phasor and the frequency domain.
Sinusoidal response.
Quiz 5: Inductors, Capacitors and Mutual Inductance.
Assigned Problems: Drill 9.1, 9.2, 9.4. Problem 9.6
Week 15

Meeting 34 (4/23): Phasor and the frequency domain.

Sinusoidal response.Review of complex numbers.
Meeting 35 (4/25): Phasor and the frequency domain
Inverse Phasor Transform. Passive circuit elements in the frequency domain (R, L).
Meeting 36 (4/26): Exam 3 (Chapter 5,  Chapter 6, Beginning of  Chapter 9 ) 6:00pm to 8:00pm in S-113

Date (4/27): No class because of exam.

Week 16

Meeting 37 (4/30): Phasor and the frequency domain

Passive circuit elements in the frequency domain (C). Impedance and Reactance.
Assigned Problems: Drill 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9
Meeting 38 (5/2): Phasor and the frequency domain
KVL and KCL in the frequency domain. Impedances in series and parallel.
Date (5/4): No class - Prof. absent - Students attended IAP presentations.

Week 17

Meeting 39 (5/7): Phasor and the frequency domain

Source transformation and Thevenin-Norton Equivalents in the frequency domain.
Meeting 40 (5/8) : Phasor and the frequency domain
Make up class 6:00pm to 7:00pm in S-230
Examples Thevenin and Norton, Mesh-Current, Node-Voltage methods in frequency domain.
Assigned Problems: Drill 9.10, 9.12, 9.13, 9.15, 9.16, 9.17, 9.18
Problems 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.17, 9.19, 9.22, 9.23, 9.30, 9.31, 9.32, 9.37, 9.41, 9.45, 9.47, 9.49, 9.50, 9.51
Meeting 41 (5/9): Power in sinusoidal steady-state.
Instantaneous power. Average power.
Meeting 42 (5/11): Power in sinusoidal steady-state. LAST DAY OF CLASSES
Reactive power. Complex power. Power factor.
Assigned Problems: Drill 10.1, 10.2, 10.9
Problems 10.1, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.12