SUNY Geneseo
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Class: TR 10:00am; ISC 229
Web: www.geneseo.edu/~pogo
Dr. Pogo
Office: ISC 228D
Office Hours: MW 9:15-10:15; MTW 1:00 - 2:00
E-mail: pogo@geneseo.edu
Electric Circuit Analysis
(Phys 332)
Spring 2016
What am I doing here? At the end of this course, you will be able to analyze
the properties and behavior of linear electronic systems. You will understand
the difference between DC and AC circuits, as well as the differences between
steady-state and transient behaviors. You will be able to develop both analytic
solutions and simulations to characterize circuits. You will be exposed to
analysis in both time and frequency domains.
The textbook for this class is Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, by J. David
Irwin & R. Mark Nelms (11th edition, Wiley; ISBN 978-1-118-53929-3). You
may also use other editions, since assignments will use CAPA.
Why did I hear that this class was spicy? It might be that you were thinking of the simulation
software package called “PSpice”. You will be required to use this software to complete some of your
weekly assignments. This software lets you draw a circuit and make virtual measurements to examine its
behavior. You should download it from the manufacturer (OrCad) here:
http://www.orcad.com/buy/try-orcad-for-free
How will I be graded? Your grade will be determined by:
Assignments:
Quizzes :
Midterm Exams:
Final Exam:
25%
10%
40% (20% each for 2 exams)
25%
100%
When are the tests? Here is a tentative schedule of exams. Exams #1 and #2 are currently scheduled
as “in class” exams. If the entire class (including Dr. Pogo) agrees, then any exam time, date, or length
can be changed (to a two hour evening exam, for example). Such changes will not affect the exam
questions itself. In any case, the time limit for exams #1 through #3 will not exceed two hours.
Exam #1: Thursday, February 18, 2016
Exam #2: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Exam #3: Thursday, May 5, 2016 (final exam, at noon)
What if I have trouble with the homework? Come see me during office hours (see times listed
above) and I’ll try to point you in the right direction. You may never visit office hours for help
on the same day that an assignment is due (you should have gotten help much earlier than that,
and I won’t encourage irresponsible procrastination). Also, I know that most of you will work in
groups, and I won’t attempt to stop it. However, the learning is in the doing. Nobody on this planet learns
from copying somebody else’s work, no matter how clear or correct it is. Every part of every problem that
you let somebody else do for you is something that you are deciding that you just don’t want to learn.
You will not have their help on exams!
SUNY Geneseo
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Class: TR 10:00am; ISC 229
Web: www.geneseo.edu/~pogo
Dr. Pogo
Office: ISC 228D
Office Hours: MW 9:15-10:15; MTW 1:00 - 2:00
E-mail: pogo@geneseo.edu
ECA: Tentative Schedule
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Class 1: Circuit elements & terminology
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Class 3: Loops & Nodes
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Class 5: Nodal Analysis
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Class 7: Supernodes & Supermeshes
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Class 9: Op-Amps
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Class 10: Superposition
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Class 12: Capacitance & Inductance
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Class 14: Transient Behavior I
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Class 16: Transient Behavior III
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Class 18: General Linear Systems
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Class 19: Phasors & Complex Analysis
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Class 21: AC Power I
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
G.R.E.A.T. Day
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Class 24: Frequency Analysis
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Class 26: Filtering
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Class 2: Kirkhoff’s Laws; Ohm’s law
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Class 4: Series, Parallel, Delta, “Y”
Assign #1 Due
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Class 6: Mesh Analysis
Assign #2 Due
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Class 8: Pspice
Assign #3 Due
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Exam #1
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Class 11: Thevenin Equivalence
Assign #4 Due
Thursday, March 03, 2016
Class 13: Capacitance/Inductance II
Assign #5 Due
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Class 15: Transient Behavior II
Assign #6 Due
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Spring Break
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Class 17: Transformers
Assign #7 Due
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Exam #2
Thursday, April 07, 2016
Class 20: Impedance & AC Steady-state
Assign #8 Due
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Class 22: AC Power II
Assign #9 Due
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Class 23: AC & Safety
Assign #10 Due
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Class 25: Resonance
Assign #11 Due
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Final Exam (noon)
SUNY Geneseo
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Class: TR 10:00am; ISC 229
Web: www.geneseo.edu/~pogo
Dr. Pogo
Office: ISC 228D
Office Hours: MW 9:15-10:15; MTW 1:00 - 2:00
E-mail: pogo@geneseo.edu
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course, students will:
• be able to analyze the properties and behavior of linear electronic systems
• understand the difference between DC and AC circuits
• understand the differences between steady-state and transient behaviors
• be able to develop both analytic solutions to characterize circuits
• be able to develop pspice simulations to characterize circuits.
• be exposed to analysis in both time and frequency domains.