EECS 2300 eLECTRIC cIRCUITS i Course Syllabus
Credits/Contact Hours
4 credits/150 minutes (2.5 hours) classroom contact per week, plus 2.5 hours of lab
contact per week.
Textbook
C. Alexander and M. Sadiku, 鈥淔undamentals of Electric Circuits,鈥� McGraw-Hill, 7th
edition, 2021. B. Ryan, 鈥淓lectric Circuits I Laboratory Manual,鈥� posted on the course
web site.
Course Information
An introduction to electrical circuit components and laws, including ideal op-amps,
DC circuit analysis, AC circuit analysis, transient analysis of RL and RC circuits
and computer-aided circuit analysis.
Corequisite: PHYS 2140. Required for CSE, EE and BIOE majors.
- Specific Goals - Student聽Learning Objectives聽(SLOs)
understand the interrelationships between charge, current, voltage, power and energy as applied to an electric circuit. - define the terminal relationships of one-port linear circuit Elements.
- 聽apply the fundamental laws and theorems of electric circuit Analysis.
- analyze ideal operational amplifier circuits and design basic functions.
- 聽perform transient analysis of first-order circuits.
- 聽understand the properties of sinusoidal sources, perform steady state circuit analysis using phasors and calculate single-phase AC power
聽Assemble and analyze electric circuits in a laboratory setting, documenting experiments in formal written lab reports
Topics
1. Voltage, current, power and energy.
2. Circuit elements: sources, resistance and Kirchhoff鈥檚 laws.
3. Simple resistive circuits, voltage and current division and meters.
4. Nodal and mesh analysis. 5. Introduction to Operational Amplifiers. 6. Thevenin鈥檚 and Norton鈥檚 theorems.
5. Inductors and capacitors.
6. Transient response of RL and RC circuits.
7. Sinusoidal sources, the phasor, steady state analysis and AC power.
8. Computer-aided circuit analysis.
9. Laboratory experiments