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EE215: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

General Topics

Basic circuit and systems concepts. Mathematical models of components. Kirchhoff's laws. Resistors, sources, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers. Solution of first and second order linear differential equations associated with basic circuit forms.

Specific Topics

  • Ideal circuit elements, voltage and current sources, electrical resistance (Ohm's Law), Kirchoff's laws.
  • Circuit models and analysis, resistive circuits, resistors in series and in parallel, voltage and current divider circuits, measurements, Wheatstone bridge, Delta-Y transforms.
  • Node voltage method, mesh current method, source transforms.
  • Source transforms, Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits, maximum power transfer, superposition.
  • Superposition. Op-amps.
  • Capacitors, inductors, mutual inductance.
  • RL and RC circuits: natural response and step response.
  • RL and RC circuits: sequential switching, unbounded response; integrating amplifier. RLC circuits: general solution, characteristic equation.
  • Parallel and serial RLC circuits: overdamped, underdamped, critically damped.
  • 2nd order circuits with op-amps. Review and practice problems.

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