Lectures for EE 220, Circuits I – Summer 2023

 

 

June 5 (M) – Notes and Video – Discuss course webpage, course policies, homework guidelines. Introduce Ohm’s Law, LTspice.

June 6 (Tu) – Notes and Video – Continue with Ohm’s Law, LTspice. Discuss conventional current flow, voltage sources. Falstad.

June 7 (W) – Notes and Video – Parallel and series resistors and equivalents, voltage and current sources.

June 8 (Th) – Notes and Video – Introduce Kirchhoff’s Voltage and Current Laws (KVL, KCL). Work example problems.

June 9 (F) – Notes and Video – Derive and discuss voltage and current dividers, review KVL. Live DC circuit demo.

 

June 12 (M) – Notes and Video – Introduce superposition, mesh analysis techniques. Work example problems.

June 13 (Tu) – Notes and Video – Review superposition, answer questions, work example problems. Review mesh analysis.

June 14 (W) – Notes and Video – Introduce Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems for simplifying circuits. Work example problems.

June 15 (Th) – Notes and Video – Continue with Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems, discuss source transformation.  

June 16 (F) – Notes and Video – Discuss instantaneous power, power dissipation. Dependent sources. HW8, 2AM, 2AS, 2BM, 2BS.

 

June 19 (M) – Notes and Video – Continue with dependent sources, work example problems. Start reviewing for midterm exam.

June 20 (Tu) – Notes and Video – Review for the midterm, answer questions, work problems.  

June 21 (W) – Midterm Exam

June 22 (Th) – Notes and Video – Solve the midterm, answer questions. Introduce capacitors. Discuss charge, voltage, equivalents.  

June 23 (F) – Notes and Video – Continue with capacitors, capacitor energy storage, current, charge sharing.

 

June 26 (M) – Notes and Video – Begin RC circuits, charging and discharging equation derivations, work examples.

June 27 (Tu) – Notes and Video – Continue with RC circuits, capacitor behavior in DC, AC. Work more examples.   

June 28 (W) – Notes and Video – Wrap up with more complicated RC circuits, solving using KVL. “FIFE” equation video, notes.

June 29 (Th) – Notes and Video – Introduce inductors. Discuss energy storage, current, voltage. Begin RL circuits.

June 30 (F) – Notes and Video – Continue with inductors, RL circuits. Discuss inductor equivalents. Work examples.

 

July 3 (M) – Notes and Video – Wrap up and review RC (ex1, ex2) and RL circuits. Begin AC signals, sinusoids (amplitude, phase, frequency).

July 4 (Tu) – Notes and Video – Continue with sinusoids. Discuss leading and lagging signals. Convert phase shift into time delay. Phasors.

July 5 (W) – Notes and Video – Review complex numbers, complex plane. Solve examples of circuits with AC sources.

July 6 (Th) – Notes and Video – Answer questions regarding HW, AC circuits in general. Solve RLC circuit example.

 

Notes and Video – Review session 1 for Final Exam.

Notes and Video – Review session 2 for Final Exam.

 

July 7 (F) – Final Exam

 

 

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