Linear Circuit Analysis

Catalog description

An introduction to electric circuit analysis techniques, including DC and AC circuit analysis techniques. Students will learn Volt-ampere characteristics for circuit elements. Students will analyze circuits with independent and dependent sources. The course will also introduce Kirchoff’s laws for voltage and current, Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems. The course will also introduce transient response of resistor-capacitor (RC), resistor-inductor (RL), and resistor-inductor-capacitor (RLC) circuits. Students will also analyze signals at frequency to examine sinusoidal steady-state and impedance and to study both instantaneous and average power. Finally, students will use PSPICE to model the ideal behavior of these systems.