USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

EE 202L: Linear Circuits

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2006-07 Catalog:

Lumped circuit elements; network equations; zero-input and zero-state responses; sinusoidal steady-state analysis; impedance; resonance; network functions; power concepts; transformers; Laplace transforms. Prerequisite: PHYS 152L; corequisite: MATH 245.

Textbook:

The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, Thomas and Rosa, Wiley, 2001

Coordinator:

Hans H. Kuehl, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Topics:

1. Basic analysis and design techniques for linear DC circuits containing resistors, voltage and current sources, and operational amplifiers.
2. Basic analysis and design techniques for dynamic linear circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors, voltage and current sources, and operational amplifiers.
3. Phasor techniques applied to the analysis and design of linear circuits.
4. Use of Laplace transforms to solve linear circuit problems.
5. Laboratory techniques for measurement and data interpretation of linear circuits.

Course Objectives:

To introduce the student to the mathematical techniques and application skills needed to analyze, design, and make laboratory measurements on linear electric circuits.

Course Outcomes:

The student will be able to:
1. Understand and apply Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws.
2. Apply the node-voltage and mesh-current methods to analyze circuits.
3. Determine Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits.
4. Analyze and design circuits containing operational amplifiers.
5. Understand the basic signal waveforms commonly used in the analysis of dynamic circuits.
6. Analyze circuits that include capacitors and inductors.
7. Understand the basic properties of first- and second-order circuits, based on the solution of the circuit differential equations.
8. Use phasor techniques to analyze and design circuits operating in the sinusoidal steady state.
9. Understand the basic properties of Laplace transforms and their use to solve differential equations.
10. Use Laplace transforms to analyze and design circuits.
11. Construct circuits in the laboratory, make measurements on and interpret experimental data from those circuits, using up-to-date measurement equipment and software.
12. Design, construct, and test an electric circuit based on given specifications (as in the final laboratory project).

Laboratory Projects:

Weekly laboratory projects and a final design project.

Prepared by: Hans H. Kuehl Date: August 20, 2002