ECEN 214 Electrical Circuit Theory

Syllabus

1. Basic Circuit Theory
   1. Ideal Voltage/Current Sources
   2. Circuit elements and governing equations: Resistors, capacitors, inductors
   3. Kirchhoff’s Laws

2. Basic Circuit Analysis
   1. Node-Voltage method
   2. Mesh-current method
   3. Source transformation
   4. Thevenin/Norton equivalent circuits
   5. Maximum power transfer
   6. Superposition

3. Ideal Op Amp Circuits
   1. Ideal op amp equations
   2. Analysis of common op amp configurations
   3. Inverting/non-inverting amplifiers
   4. Summing amplifiers
   5. Difference amplifiers

4. DC Transient Circuit Analysis
   1. Natural and step responses of first order RC and RL circuits.
   2. First order op amp circuits
   3. Natural and step responses of second order RLC circuits

5. AC Circuit Analysis
   1. Phasors
   2. Impedance
   3. Finding sinusoidal steady state solutions using phasors