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.
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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.
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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.