Week

Day

Date

Activities & HW Assignments

1

2

M

Jan. 17

NO CLASS ON THIS WEEK.

Course Outline, Chapter 1: Circuit Variables; Voltage and Current; Ideal circuit element

HW: 1.17; 1.20;

2

W

Jan. 19

Section: 1.5-1.6; Chapter 2: Circuit Elements; 2.1-2.4

HW:  1.24; 1.29; 2.14

2

F

Jan. 21

2.4 (cont.): Kirchhoff's Law; PSPICE

HW: 2.18;  2.19; 2.26

3

M

Jan. 24

Section 2.5: Analysis of a circuit containing dependent source.

HW: 2.29; 2.31

3

W

Jan. 26

Chapter 3: Resistive Circuits; Resistors in series and parallel; The voltage divider rule

HW: 3.9; 3.14

3

F

Jan. 28

The current divider rule; Measuring voltage and current

HW: 3.25; 3.27

4

M

Jan. 31

Delta-to-Wye equivalent circuits; Chapter 4: Node-voltage method

HW: 3.57; 3.59

4

W

Feb. 2

Chapter 4: Node-voltage method (Cont.); Node-voltage method examples

HW: 4.11; 4.14

4

F

Feb. 4

Node-voltage method and dependent source; Node-voltage method: Special cases; Exam Review

HW: 4.18; 4.24; 4.27

5

M

Feb. 7

Exam #1

5

W

Feb. 9

Mesh-current method ; Mesh-current method and dependent sources;

HW: 4.32; 4.37

5

F

Feb. 11

Mesh current method (cont.); Source transformations;

HW: 4.33; 4.36; 4.57

6

M

Feb. 14

Thevenin equivalent

HW: 4.60; 4.64; 4.65

6

W

Feb. 16

Thevenin equivalent (cont.); Norton equivalent

HW: 4.68; 4.74; 4.62; 4.77

6

F

Feb. 18

Maximum power transfer; Superposition

HW: 4.76; 4.88; 4.89; 4.90

7

M

Feb. 21

Operational amplifiers; The inverting-amplifier circuit

HW: 5.5; 5.11

7

W

Feb. 23

The summing-amplifier circuit; The noninverting-amplifier circuit

HW: 5.16, 5.40

7

F

Feb. 25

The difference amplifier; More realistic models

HW: 5.33; 5.34

8

M

Feb. 28

Op-Amps more realistic models

HW: 5.46

8

W

March 2

Chapter 6: Capacitors; Exam Review

HW: 6.18; 6.19

8

F

March 4

Exam #2

9

M

March 7

SPRING BREAK

9

W

March 9

SPRING BREAK

9

F

March 11

SPRING BREAK

10

M

March 14

The Inductor ; The series-parallel combination of inductance & capacitance

HW: 6.22; 6.28;

10

W

March 16

First-Order RL Circuit; The natural response of RL circuit

HW: 7.1; 7.3;

10

F

March 18

The natural response of an RC circuit; The step response of RL and RC circuits

HW: 7.47; 7.40

11

M

March 21

The step response of RL and RC circuits (cont.)

HW: 7.39

11

W

March 23

A general solution for step and natural responses; Sequential switching

HW: 7.45; 7.46;

11

F

March 25

Sequential switching (cont.); An integrating amplifier

HW: 7.73; 7.87; 7.91;

12

M

March 28

RLC Circuits

HW: 8.23; 8.27

12

W

March 30

Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis: The sinusoidal source; The sinusoidal response

HW: 9.20; 9.26; 9.30

12

F

April 2

The phasor; The passive circuit elements in the frequency domain

HW: 9.39; 9.40

13

M

April 4

Kirchhoff's Law in the frequency domain; Source transformation and Thevenin-Norton equivalent circuits

HW: 9.43; 9.45; 9.48

13

W

April 6

The node-voltage method; The mesh-current method

HW: 9.57; 9.61; 9.62

13

F

April 8

Exam #3

14

M

April 11

Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations: Instantaneous power; Average and reactive power

HW: 10.10; 10.12; 10.16

14

W

April 13

The RMS value and power calculations; The complex power; Power calculations

HW: 10.19; 10.21; 10.25

14

F

April 15

Power calculations (cont.); Maximum power transfer

HW: 10.35; 10.36

15

M

April 18

Introduction to frequency selective circuits; Low-pass filter

HW: 14.3; 14.5

15

W

April 20

High-pass filters

HW: 14.7; 14.8

15

F

April 23

Band-pass filters

HW: 14.15; 14.17

16

M

April 25

Band-pass filters (cont.); Diodes

HW: handout

16

W

April 27

Exam #4

16

F

April 29

Diodes; Final Exam Review