Direct and Alternating Current Circuits

Catalog description

EET 310 provides an introduction to basic electrical principles and covers the DC and AC circuit analysis techniques necessary for most upper-level EET courses. The course covers DC and AC sources, capacitors and inductors, impedance, mutual inductance, ideal transformers, phasor diagrams, power and energy calculations in DC and AC Circuits, signal and energy transfer, and an introduction to three-phase systems. It also introduces ideal amplifier models and ideal operational amplifiers and their use in performing mathematical operations on analog signals. Circuit analysis techniques covered include nodal analysis, mesh analysis, linearity, superposition, source transformation, and one-port networks (Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems) and two-port networks (Z, Y, h, and T) as equivalent circuits. Topics covered in the course are supported by weekly hands-on laboratory experiences.