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ES 203 – Basic Electric Circuits

At a glance

  • 4 lecture hours per week
  • 4 credits

Prerequisites

Basics of electricity and magnetism from the Physics courses

Topics Covered

  • Resistor network, series and parallel network of resistors, resistor cube
  • Kirchhoff voltage and current laws (KVL and KCL)
  • Dependent and independent voltage and current sources
  • Mesh and nodal analyses
  • Linearity, superposition, and source transformation
  • Data definition language (DDL)
  • Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems
  • Maximum power transfer and delta-wye conversions
  • Solving circuits with resistors (R), inductors (L), and capacitors (C)
  • Solving RL, RC, and RLC circuits

 

Learning Resources

  • Hayt, W. H., Kemmerly, J. E., & Durbin, S. M. (1986). Engineering circuit analysis. McGraw-Hill.