Course Description

ECE 205a/b Electric Circuits I

Basic resistive circuits, Ohm's, Kirchhoff's Laws. DC analyis: nodal and mesh analysis. Network theorems: linearity, superposition, Thévenin's and Norton's theorems. Time-domain analysis: first and second order circuits, source-free and forced response. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis: phasors, complex power. Basic OpAmp circuitry.

Antirequisite: The former ES 205a/b

Prerequisites: Physics 026, Applied Mathematics 025a/b, Applied Mathematics 026, Computer Science 026a/b.

Corequisite: Applied Mathematics 276, the former Engineering Science 230y, 231a/b.

3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, half course.

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