Lecture Notes


Copies of Prof. Merat's lectures will be posted here on a periodic basis.

Lecture 1 (1/10 - course outline and information.
Lecture 2 (1/12 - electrical units units; engineering notation; electrical energy and power.
Lecture 3 (1/14) - measuring voltage and current; i-v characteristics; resistors; Ohm's Law.
Lecture 4 (1/19) - source characteristics; nodes; Kirchoff's current law.
Lecture 5 (1/21) - loops; Kirchoff's current law; combined constraints — element equations and connection (KCL, KVL) equations.
Lecture 6 (1/24) - using element constraints and connection equations to solve for circuit voltages and currents.
Lecture 7 (1/26) - equivalent resistancs — series and parallel resistances; ; equivalent sources and source transformations.
Lecture 8 (1/28) - voltage and current dividers.
Lecture 9 (1/31) - lab3: voltage and current measurement, building a circuit, using the Keithley 2000 DMM; examples of current dividers, voltage dividers, and circuit reducation.
Lecture 10 (2/2) - computer analysis of circuits; node voltage technique; Wheatstone bridge examples; techniques for handling voltage sources.
Lecture 11 (2/4) - node voltage examples; how to deal with voltage sources in node voltage analysis.
Lecture 12 (2/7) - mesh current technique and examples; how to deal with current sources in mesh current analysis.
Lecture 13 (2/9) - linear circuits; constant of proportionality; unit output technique; introduction to superposition.
Lecture 14 (2/11) - turning voltage and current sources OFF; superposition.
Lecture 15 (2/14) - Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; how to determine Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuit parameters.
Lecture 16 (2/16) - load lines; maximum power transfer.
Lecture 17 (2/18) - Design considerations for interface circuits; series, parallel and L-sections; intro to dependent sources.
Lecture 18 (2/21) - Dependent sources; writing loop and node equations for circuits with dependent sources.
Lecture 19 (2/23) - Thevenin equivalent circuits for circuits with dependent sources; introduction to the OP AMP.
Lecture 20 (2/25) - OP AMPS: non-inverting amplifier; inverting amplifier.
Lecture 21 (2/28) - OP AMPS: computer simulation of saturating OP AMP amplifier; summing amplifier; subtracting amplifier.
Lecture 22 (3/2) - OP AMPS: op amps as building blocks; voltage follower and maximum available power; circuits with multiple nodes and/or multiple OP AMPS.
Lecture 23 (3/5) - OP AMPS: multiple op amp circuits, op amp comparators..
Lecture 24 (3/14) - Instrumentation systems; transducer characteristics. I CANNOT FIND MY COPY OF THIS LECTURE. I WOULD APPRECIATE A COPY OF ANYONE'S LECTURE 24 NOTES TO POST.
Lecture 25 (3/16) - Instrumentation interfacing: gain and offset. Design choices..
Lecture 26 (3/18) - Instrumentation interfacing and design concluded. Basic waveforms: impulse, unit step, unit ramp. Exponential waveform and time constant. .
Lecture 27 (3/21) - Experimental measurement of exponential waveforms and time constants. Basic sinusoidal waveforms. Experimental measurement of frequency, amplitude and phase shift. Fourier coefficients.
Lecture 28 (3/23) - Average power and rms measurements. Basic capacitors: power and energy considerations in capacitors.
Lecture 29 (3/25) - Power and energy in capacitors; Implementing integrators and differentiatiors using OP AMPs and capacitors.
Lecture 30 (3/28) - The 555 timer integrated circuit. Inductors ; capacitors/inductors in series and parallel; saturation in integrators and differentiators. UPDATED 3/30/05 7:30PM
Lecture 31 (3/30) - First order linear differential equations for circuits (Section 7.1); forced sinusoidal solution of first order differential equations (Section 7.4); introduction to phasors (Section 8.1); the Euler identity; graphical interpretation of phasors as vectors; vector addition of phasors; examples of converting sinusoids to phasors; using phasors to add voltages.
Lecture 32 (4/1) - Using phasors to add voltages and currents; derivatives of phasors; impedance; analyzing simple circuits using Ohm's Law, KCL and KVL for phasors.
Lecture 33 (4/4) - Analyzing phasor circuits using Ohm's Law, KCL and KVL; introduction to filters.
Lecture 34 (4/6) - Types of filters: low pass, high pass, band pass, notch or band reject; frequency response; Bode plots for simple circuits (12.1).
Lecture 35 (4/8) - More Bode plot examples: active low pass filter; passive high pass filter. EXPERIMENTAL: Audio file of this lecture. (MP3, 15.8 MB)
Lecture 36 (4/11) - More frequency response examples (12.2). Active high-pass filter. Cascade and parallel connections of filters; bandpass and notch filters (12.3). EXPERIMENTAL: Audio file of this lecture. (MP3, 27.7 MB)
Lecture 37 (4/13) - First order circuits re-visited; state variables and zero-input response (7.1, 7.2). Zero-input response examples; writing differential equations using state variables — Thevenizing the circuit, EXPERIMENTAL: Audio file of this lecture. (MP3, 28.7 MB)
Lecture 38 (4/15) - Thevenizing the circuit, combining inductors and capacitors, combining initial conditions (7.2). EXPERIMENTAL: Audio file of this lecture. (MP3, 10.5 MB)
Lecture 39 (4/18) - Zero-input response initial conditions; writing differential equations using state variables; superposition of step and zero-input responses
Lecture 40 (4/20) - Superposition of step and zero-input responses; time constants for RC and RL circuits; initial and final values (7.2).
Lecture 41 (4/22) - The initial/final value Theorem: writing time dependent responses using only the initial and final values and the time constant; time dependent responses for circuit variables other than state-variables (7.3).
Lecture 42 (4/25) - Review of last year's final exam: solution of KVL, phasor and transient problems (Problems 9, 2 and 6).


Review (5/1) - Notes from final exam review session.




These copies of Prof. Merat's Spring 2004 course notes provide an excellent supplemental study guide for the Spring 2005 semester. They cover each topic in considerably more detail then the actual 2005 lectures.