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ECE 212 Schedule

Lecture Date Text Reading Topic
Chapter 1
29-Apr 1.1-1.2 "Introduction, circuit elements"
29-Apr 1.3-1.5 "Power, energy, sources, Ohm's law"
1-May 1.7-1.8 Kirchhoff' Laws
1-May
Chapter 2
2-May 2.1 Combinations
2-May 2.2 - 2.3 "Voltage/current dividers, source transformations"
    "HW 1 (Due 5/2): 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, 1.10, 1.13, 1.16, 1.19, 1.22, 1.25, 1.28, 1.31, 1.34, 1.37, 1.40, 2. 2, 2.5, 2. 8"

5-May 2.4 Superposition
Chapter 3
5-May 3.1-3.2 Node Voltage (NV)
6-May 3.3-3.4 NV with dependent sources
6-May 3.5-3.6 Mesh Current (MC)
    "HW 2 (Due 5/7): 2. 11, 2.14, 1.17, 2.20, 2.23, 2.26, 2.29, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 3.22, 3.30, 3.37"
8-May 3.7-3.8 MC vs. NV
8-May 3.9 Thevenin and Norton
9-May 3.9-3.10 Max power transfer
Chapter 4
9-May 4.1-4.2 Op Amp basics
    "HW 3 (Due 5/9): 3.51, 3.54, 3.56, 3.57, 3.63, 3.66, 3.67, 3.70, 3.72"

12-May 4.3-4.6 Op Amp circuits
12-May cont.
13-May 4.7 Comparator
13-May REVIEW
    "HW 4 (Due 5/14): 4.4, 4.8, 4.12, 4.16, 4.19, 4.29, 4.32, 4.36, 4.40"
    Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4) May 15 - 19
    Exam1 review topics put on Blackboard
Chapter 5
15-May 5.1 - 5.2 "Inductor, capacitor"
15-May 5.3 L and C combinations
16-May 5.4 Natural Response (RL circuit)
16-May Natural Response (RC circuit)
    "HW 5 (Due 5/17): 5.1, 5.5, 5.9, 5.13, 5.17, 5.21, 5.24"

19-May 5.5 Step Response
19-May 5.6 Integrating amplifier
Chapter 6
20-May 6.1 RLC circuits
20-May 6.2 RLC circuits (natural response)
    "HW 6 (Due 5/21): 5.29, 5.32, 5.36, 5.41, 5.45, 5.49, 5.55, 5.63, 5.70, 5.74

Look these problems over early in the week, so you can get the help you need before the weekend. This will be a very difficult assignment to complete without some hints here and there.
Hint: On #5.32 and others like it use a Thevenin equivalent to simplify."
22-May 6.2 cont.
22-May 6.3 - 6.4 RLC parallel step response
23-May make up
Chapter 7
23-May Complex numbers
    "HW 7 (Due 5/23): 6.1, 6.5, 6.9, 6.13, 6.17, 6.21, 6.23, 6.25, 6.29

Hint for problem 6.13: Outline for proof:
Assume A1 and A2 are complex numbers.
a. x(0+) = A1 + A2; [ x(0+) is real ] ==> ??
b. dx(0+)/dt = A1*s1 + A2*s2; [ result from a. ] AND [dx(0+)/dt is real] ==> ??
c. [ result from a. ] and [ result from b. ] ==> ??"

26-May HOLIDAY (No Class)
27-May 7.1 - 7.3 Sinusoidal sources and phasors
27-May cont.
    "HW 8 (Due 5/28): 6.33, 6.35, 6.41, 6.47, 6.49

(1) Write the following complex numbers in both rectangular and polar form:
a. (-1 + j)2
b. (8j – 1)/j
c. (2 + 3j)/(1 + 2j) – (8 + j)/(6 – j)
d. j3(1 + j)2
(2) Find all of the root of (-1+j)0.25
(3) Find the roots of the following equations in both polar and rectangular form.
a. z2 + 1 = 0
b. z2 + 6z + 10 = 0
c. z2 – 3z + 2 = 0
(4) Let z = 3 – 2j. Plot the points z, -z, z*, 1/z, 1/z*, in the complex plane.
"
29-May More phasors
29-May Talk about Major
30-May 7.4 - 7.5 Phasor domain circuits
30-May 7.6- 7.8 Circuit simplifications
    "HW 9 (Due 5/30): 7.1, 7.3, 7.7, 7.8, 7.17, 7.21, 7.27, 7.31, 7.36, 7.40, 7.43"

2-Jun 7.9 Power
2-Jun 7.10 - 7.11 RMS power
3-Jun examples
3-Jun Review
    "HW 10 (Due 6/4): 7.53, 7.55, 7.57, 7.60, 7.61, 7.65, 7.66, 7.69, 7.73, 7.77, 7.79, 7.82

Hint for problem 61: Consider the right triangle with angle 2wt, adjacent side of length P, opposite side of length -Q, and hypotenuse of sqrt(P^2 + Q^2). Then write expressions for sine and cosine of 2wt in terms of P and Q using the triangle. "
    Exam 2 (Chapters 5-7) June 5 - 10
Chapter 8
5-Jun 8.1 Laplace Transforms
5-Jun 8.2 - 8.4 Functional transforms
6-Jun cont.
6-Jun 8.5 Operational transforms
    "HW 11 (Due 6/6): 8.1, 8.8, 8.9, 8.12, 8.17, 8.18"

9-Jun 8.6 - 8.9 Application and inverses
9-Jun cont.
10-Jun cont.
10-Jun cont.
    "HW 12 (Due 6/11): 8.24, 8.26, 8.29, 8.37, 8.40"
Chapter 9
12-Jun 9.1 - 9.2 s-domain analysis
12-Jun s-domain circuit analysis
13-Jun 9.4
13-Jun 9.5
    "HW 13 (Due 6/13): , 9.6, 9.9, 9.13, 9.17, 9.26, 9.31, 9.63, 9.67"

16-Jun 9.7
16-Jun 9.7
    "Final: Thursday, June 19, 7am-10am"
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