BOSTON UNIVERSITY
EK307 A2 S2015
College of Engineering
EK307 – Electric Circuits
Spring Semester 2015, Section A2
Instructor
Time
Classroom
Office Hours
Location
E-mail
Prof. Min-Chang Lee
Mon/Wed 4-6PM
PHO 203
Tue 4-5 PM
Thu 4-5 PM
(or by appointment)
PHO 418
mclee@bu.edu
Course Description:
Introduction to electric circuit analysis and design; voltage, current, and power, circuit laws
and theorems; element I-V curves, linear and nonlinear circuit concepts; operational amplifier
circuits; transient response of capacitor and inductor circuits, sinusoidal-steady-state response,
frequency response, transfer functions; includes design-oriented laboratory. 4 cr. Coreq: CAS
MA 226.
Course Content:
EK307 includes a coordinated set of lectures, labs, homework, and exams. Lab sessions meet
in PHO105 where students will perform circuit experiments using components and a
breadboard. Students will have weekly discussion times with TFs to discuss course material
and ask questions on the homework.
Text:
Class Website:
Grading:
Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, Charles Alexander, Matthew Sadiku, 5th edition,
McGraw Hill, 2013
https://learn.bu.edu
Labs
Homework
Mid-term Exam I
Mid-term Exam II
Final Exam
20%
15%
20%
20%
25%
Graduate Teaching Assistants: Manya Chen cmy@bu.edu, Peter Cruz pjc2148@bu.edu,
Haiding Sun haiding@bu.edu, Mahmoud Zangeneh zangeneh@bu.edu
Office hours to be announced.
Exams: The exams will be closed book, closed notes. There will be two midterm exams and a
Final exam. Midterm exams will be given on Fri. Feb. 20, 6-8 PM and Fri. Apr. 10, 6-8 PM.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
EK307 A2 S2015
College of Engineering
Missed Exam Policy:
Absence from an exam can be excused only for reasons of illness, or unavoidable
travel. Permission of the instructor in advance is required. In the event of illness, a
doctor’s note is required.
Homework:
Weekly homework assignments will be due Wednesday for EK307 A2 at the
beginning of class. A homework cover page must be stapled to the front of each
homework set. Late homework will not be accepted.
Homework submissions must be neat and well-organized. All work should be shown,
including circuit diagrams. Each solution should clearly indicate the technique used
and assumptions made. The “right answer” by itself is no solution and will earn no
credit. Badly organized, illegible, or unclear work will cause loss of credit. Final
answers should be highlighted (boxed, circled, underlined, etc.).
All students must comply with the University’s Universal Academic Conduct Code
http://www.bu.edu/academics/resources/academic-conduct-code/.
Lecture:
Lectures may contain materials that are not in the textbook. Such materials may
appear in homework and on exams.
Discussion Sections:
Discussion sessions will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 6-8pm, in
PHO203.
Labs:
Lab information is found at: http://www.bu.edu/eng/courses/ek307/
Labs will meet weekly in PHO 105 starting the week of January 26. You are required
to purchase an EK307 laboratory kit available at the counter in PHO105. You must
also purchase a bound lab notebook, loose-leaf and spiral notebooks are not
acceptable. Each lab will need to be signed off by a GTA. Late lab reports will not be
accepted.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
EK307 A2 S2015
College of Engineering
Lecture Schedule
Lec
Date
Topic
Reading: Chapter
1
1/21
System of Units; Charge, Current and Voltage; Power and
Energy; Circuit Elements; Ohm’s law
Chapter 1, 2.1–
2.2
2
1/26
2.3–2.6, 2.8–2.9
3
1/28
4
2/2
5
6
7
2/4
2/9
2/11
8
9
2/17
(Tue)
2/18
10
2/20
2/23
11
2/25
12
13
14
15
3/2
3/4
3/16
3/18
16
3/23
17
3/25
18
19
3/30
4/1
20
4/6
21
4/10
4/13
22
4/15
23
4/22
24
25
4/27
4/29
TBA
KVL, KCL, Resistors in Series and voltage division,
Resistors in parallel and current division
Node-Voltage Method,
Solving circuits with linear algebra
Mesh-current method,
Application: Transistors
Circuit theorems: Linearity, superposition, source transformation
Thevenin & Norton theorems
Maximum Power Transfer,
Examples: Source modeling, Bridge circuits, Interface circuits
Introduction to operational amplifiers,
Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers
Op-amp circuit analysis, Examples: Voltage follower,
Summing and Differencing Amplifiers, Cascaded circuits
Friday February 20, 6-8 PM, Midterm Exam 1
Op-amp circuit design
Applications: D/A conversion, Instrumentation amplifier
Introduction to Capacitors, Inductors
Applications: Circuit implementation of mathematical operations
First order circuits: Source free RL and RC circuits
Singularity functions, RL and RC step response
First order op-amp circuits
Intro to second order circuits
Series/Parallel RLC circuits, damping
RLC circuits, step response
Second order op-amp circuits
Sinusoidal steady state and phasors
Phasor relations for circuit elements
Impedance and Admittance
Circuit analysis techniques with phasors: Thevenin and Norton,
energy and power. Application: oscillator circuits
AC Power Analysis: instantaneous vs average power, RMS,
power factor
Friday April 10, 6-8 PM, Midterm Exam 2
Intro to filter circuits:
Low-pass filters, High-pass filters, Decibel and Bode plots
Band-pass filters,
RLC frequency response, Resonance
Active Filters, Applications
Computing frequency response with Matlab
Mutual inductance and transformers
Applications of transformers, Reviews for Final Exam
Final Exam (time and location TBD)
3.1–3.3
3.4–3.7, 3.9–
3.10
4.1–4.4
4.5–4.7
4.8, 4.10–4.11
5.1–5.5
5.6–5.8
5.10-5.11
Chapter 6
7.1–7.3
7.4–7.6
7.7, 7.9–7.10
8.1–8.4
8.5–8.8, 8.10–
8.12
9.1–9.4
9.5–9.9
10.1–10.7, 10.9
11.1–11.5
14.1–14.3, 14.7
14.7, 14.4
14.8, 14.11–
14.12
13.1-13.5
Notes