Things you should have learned on your way to ECE 340
- Algebra
- Graphs
- Equation of a line (can you sketch y(t) = -5t + 10 ?)
- Trigonometry (can you sketch y(t)=3 + 5cos(200t + 30°) ?)
- Exponential functions (can you sketch y(t) = 10 - 20e-100t ?)
- Solutions of linear sets of equations
- Basic element current/voltage characteristics
- Ideal DC Voltage Source
- Ideal DC Current Source
- Resistor
- Dependent sources
- Passive sign convention
- Power absorbed and delivered to an element or network
- Power balance
- Kirchoff's Voltage Law - KVL
- Kirchoff's Current Law - KCL
- Ohm's Law
- Short Cuts
- Series and parallel resistance and reduction
- Voltage division
- Current division
- Basic storage elements
- Capacitors
- Inductors
- Current-Voltage characteristics of storage elements
- Time domain
- Frequency domain
- Sinusoidal Analysis (As in Mallard)
- Complex numbers and arithmetic
- Frequency Domain Problems
- Time Domain Problems
- AC Power (From Text)
- Complex Power (From Text)
- Mesh Current Analysis
- Basic Mesh Analysis
- SuperMesh Circuits
- Node Voltage Analysis
- Basic Node Analysis
- SuperNode Circuits
- Superposition
- Source Transformation
- Thevenin Equivalent Circuits
- Finding VTH and ISC
- Finding RTH
- Maximum Power Transfer
- OP AMP Circuits
- Transient Analysis of
- RC Circuits
- RL Circuits
- Time constants
- Be able to find X(0-) and X(0+) of any voltage or current variable in the circuit.
- Be able to sketch the exponential function of time solution.
- All of the above material with dependent sources
Last modified: Thu Aug 18 06:20:10 2005