If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

Electrical quantities

  • Define and calculate electrical quantities of charge, current, voltage, power and energy Resistive circuit analysis

    • Current Law in analyzing resistive circuits

  • Analyze resistive circuits by combining series and parallel resistance
  • Apply Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Voltage and Kirchhoff's
  • Apply voltage division and current division to the analysis of resistive circuits

    • Systems of equations

  • Apply techniques for solving systems of equations
  • Analyze circuits using node voltage and mesh analysis techniques

    • Network Theorems

  • Use network theorems or network reduction techniques, such as superposition and Thevenin's Theorem, to analyze or simplify resistive circuits.

    • Operational Amplifiers

  • Use linear models to represent operational amplifiers
  • Analyze operational amplifier circuits
  • Include applications of op amp circuits

    • RC, RL, and RLC Circuits

  • Define basic properties of capacitors and inductors.
  • Define and calculate voltage, current, power and energy for capacitors and inductors.
  • Analyze RC and RL circuits with constant forcing functions
  • Analyze RLC circuits with constant forcing functions

    • Phasors

  • Perform calculations using complex numbers (math)
  • Introduce the use of phasors to represent sinusoidal steady state signals, and circuit elements