ECE-201 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS

SECTIONS 501/701 (EVENING SECTION)

Fall Quarter 2009-2010

Instructor
Dr. Leonid Hrebien
Bossone 310, x6755
Electrical and Computer Engineering
lhrebien@coe.drexel.edu
Teaching Assistant
Kevin Johnson
Bossone 325
kj442@drexel.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 4:00 - 6:00 PM or by appointment (Must Postpone office hours on Thursday November 19 to Friday November 20)
Yang Gao
Bossone 404
gyailb@gmail.com
Office Hours: Friday 3:00 - 5:00 PM or by appointment
Text
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 9th Edition: Irwin & Nelms.
Notes
Syllabus
Class Notes
MAPLE for Circuits, E.L. Gerber
Goals
The goals of this course are to introduce you to basic circuit elements, circuit laws, and circuit theorems and to develop circuit analysis methods for solving circuits. Energy storage circuit elements will be introduced along with their energy properties. AC steady-state sinusoidal circuit analysis will be introduced. Finally, first and second order circuit solutions will be covered.
Homeworks and Quizzes
Homework assignments must be turned in and will count up to 5%. Working problems of the type assigned for homework is the best way to practice for quizzes and exams. Homework assignments must be turned in on time as answers will be distributed when the assignments are collected. When you turn in your homework print your name and section clearly written on top of the first page and fasten all pages together.

Each week you will have a one-problem quiz on the material just covered. No make-ups will be given. At least the two lowest quiz grades will be omitted from the final grade calculation.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Quizzes WILL BE HELD EVERY WEEK

NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN (without prior notification).

Grading
Quizzes: 30%
Midterm: 30%
Final Exam: 40%
Homework 5%

Up to 5% for homework.

Prerequisite
PHYS-102. Students must pass Physics of E&M before taking ECE-201. Also, it should be noted ECE-201 is prerequisite for the Systems courses in the pre-junior year. These courses make up an important series of introductory courses in the ECE curriculum.
Cheating
Any student cheating in a quiz, midterm, or final will receive a zero on that test. In addition the ECE Department Committee on Cheating will be notified and the student will have to meet with the chair of the committee for further action.
Tentative Course Schedule
September 21

Basics, Waveforms, Independent Sources

Homework

September 28

Conductivity, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws

Homework

October 5

Series & Parallel Circuits, Dependent Sources, Transformations

Homework

October 12

Columbus Day Holiday - No Class

October 19

Node & Mesh Analysis, Superposition, Thévenin Theorem

Homework

October 26

Norton, Max. Power, Capacitance & Inductance, Initial Conditions

MID-TERM EXAM 1

Homework

November 2

AC Steady-State Phasors, Complex Numbers

Homework

November 9

Source-free Circuits, 1st Order, RL and RC Circuits, Dif. Eq.

Homework

November 16

Forced 1st Order Circuits

November 23

2nd Order Circuits

November 30

Complete Response

December 7

FINAL EXAM

Class Notes
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Week 7
Homework Solutions
Week 1 Solutions

Week 2 Solutions

Week 3 Solutions

Week 4 Solutions


Week 5 Solutions
Week 6 Solutions