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ENS203 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I
Full Course Title:
Electrical circuits I
Elektricna kola I
Course Code:
ENS203
Course Level/BiH cycle:
Undergraduate course/ I Cycle
ECTS credit value:
6 ECTS
Student work-load:
For the whole semester:
Lectures
Tutorial /
Practical training
e.g.
Project
e.g.
Internship
Individual
learning
TOTAL
44
42
0
0
64
150
Length:
Spring semester, 15 weeks
Faculty/School/Department:
FENS / ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Course leader:
Contact details:
Office:
e-mail:
Office hours:
Phone:
Assistant
033 957 211
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Office:
e-mail:
Office hours:
Phone:
Site:
IUS Main Building
Host Study Program:
Electrical Engineering
Course status:
Obligatory
Pre-requisites:
MATH101
Access restrictions:
None
Assessment:
Final exam, midterm exam, quizzes, homework, laboratory activities
Date validated:
Course aims:
Learning outcomes:
- Introduce the students to the principles of electric circuits
- Introduce the students to various DC circuits solution methods and software
- Provide the students with hands-on skills in the laboratory
-Provide the students opportunities to write substantial, professional, technical reports and
conclusions.
On successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Explain the basic electrical elements like, resistors, inductors and capacitors and their interaction
within electrical circuits
- Calculate voltage and current in various DC electrical circuit combinations
- Measure voltage and current in various DC electrical circuit combinations
- Use software packages for DC circuit analysis
- Solve network theorems
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Indicative syllabus content:
Learning delivery:
Assessment Rationale:
This course covers: Electrical circuit components like; batteries, resistors, inductors and
capacitors. Series and parallel combinations of DC circuits with and without
storage elements. Ohm’s law, Voltage and current dividers, Nodal analysis,
Mesh Analysis, Thévenin's and Norton circuit equivalents. And the transient
response of storage elements.
Teaching will be conducted through power point presentations and problems will be solved on
the board during tutorial hours. Laboratory sessions will be conducted in EE lab.
Electrical Circuit is a fundamental course for EE engineers and a continuous assessment is needed
to make sure that students building upon the skills they receive, because they will need it later.
Hence, quizzes, homework, laboratory reports and exams are used to follow up on students
learning process.
Quizzes 20% (The average of the best 8 out of 9 quizzes)
Lab Reports 5%
Assessment Weighting:
Lab Exams 15% (The average of the best 3 out of 4 exams)
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Midterm 20% ( 8 week – IUS midterms week)
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Final exam 40% (15 and 16 week - IUS Calendar)
Essential Reading:
Recommended readings:
Intranet web reference:
Important notes:
“Introductory Circuit Analysis”, 12th edition, Boylestad
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Floyd: Electric Circuits Fundamentals
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Dorf : Introduction to Electric Circuits
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Sadiku: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
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Nilsson: Electric Circuits
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Lessons in Electrical Circuits (Online Open Book)
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Notes and Slides (On the classes website)
www.ius.edu.ba/tarik-namas
Course policy is as follows:
No late homework or reports will be accepted, one week time period for the assignments is more
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than enough to be submitted on time.
Quizzes are conducted every other week, the best 5 out of 6 quizzes will be used for final grade
calculation.
The repletion of coming late to classes will not be tolerated, hard circumstances or urgencies can
be tolerated, but coming late to classes or tutorials
without a valid reason will not be accepted
Attendance is calculated for labs , tutorials and lectures as well.
Quality assurance:
Through FENS and IUS quality assurance procedurs and QA office.
Student Survey. Faculty and program meetings, students feedback (Oral and written)
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Course schedule:
Week Lesson /
Date
1
Lessons 1
to 3
Topics to be covered
Current and Voltage
Class activities
Lab
Problems/
Readings
activities Assignments
(Homework)
Motivation for ENS203 Electrical Circuits
HW#1
34-64
Course content & outcomes, Text Book,
references & notes. Syllabus overview
(5 hours
in total)
Introduction To MATLAB, Multi-Sim software
packages
Current and Voltage basics (atomic structure
and electrical energy)
Using the Software
packages and installing
them.
Measuring current and voltage
Software check-up
2
Lessons 4
to 6
(5 hours
in total)
According
to
schedule
Resistance
Resistance, circular wires, wire tables,
resistance metric units, temperature effects
Understand temperature coefficient and
resistance, superconductors, types of
resistors, color coding, conductance and
ohmmeters
Using the Software
packages and installing
them.
Understand how current
and voltage are
established in the circuit.
Recognize type of
materials
Software, Laboratory, Website, Typical week
overview
According
to
schedule
Learning objectives
(After this lesson
student will be able to:)
Understand how current
and voltage are
established in the circuit.
Recognize type of
materials
LAB#1
Tutorial
HW#2
64-95
Calculate resistance of
one element.
Understand the effects of
temperature on the
resistance of a material.
Understand the effects of
temperature on the
resistance of a material.
Recognize different types
of resistors.
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3
Lessons 7
to 9
Ohm’s law, Power, Energy
Introduce with Ohm’s law, plotting ohm’s law,
power, wattmeter’s, energy
LAB#2
Tutorial,
102-129
HW#3
(5 hours
in total)
Quiz 1
Understand importance of
Ohm’s law and how to
apply.
Understand power and
energy flow of a system.
According
to
schedule
4
Lessons
10 to 12
Series-Parallel Networks
(5 hours
in total)
Lessons
13 to 15
(5 hours
in total)
According
to
schedule
LAB#3
Tutorial,
136-231
HW#4
Parallel elements, total conductance and
resistance, parallel circuits, Kirchhoff’s current
law
According
to
schedule
5
Series circuit, Kirchhoff’s voltage law, voltage
divider rule, measurements techniques
Quiz 2
Solve series circuit.
Understand importance of
Kirchhoff’s voltage law and
divider rules
Current divider rule, open and short circuits,
voltmeters
Series-Parallel Networks
Series circuit, Kirchhoff’s voltage law, voltage
divider rule, measurements techniques
LAB#4
(Lab
Parallel elements, total conductance and
exam 1)
resistance, parallel circuits, Kirchhoff’s current
law
Current divider rule, open and short circuits,
voltmeters
Tutorial,
HW#5
136-231
Solve series circuit.
Understand importance of
Kirchhoff’s voltage law and
divider rules
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6
Lessons 16 Methods of Analysis and
to 18
selected topics
Current sources, Branch current analysis,
Mesh analysis, Nodal analysis
LAB#4
Tutorial,
284-319
HW#8
(5 hours in
total)
Quiz 3
According
to schedule
7
Lessons 19 Methods of Analysis and
to 21
selected topics
Current sources, Branch current analysis,
Mesh analysis, Nodal analysis
LAB#5
Tutorial,
284-319
HW#9
(5 hours in
total)
Quiz 4
According
to schedule
8
Lessons 22
to 24
Apply branch-current
analysis and mesh
analysis to find currents of
network. Apply nodal
analysis to find all terminal
voltages of any seriesparallel network.
Apply branch-current
analysis and mesh
analysis to find currents of
network. Apply nodal
analysis to find all terminal
voltages of any seriesparallel network.
MIDTERM EXAM
Mid Term
Revision
and Mid
Term Exam
9
Lessons 25
to 27
(5 hours in
total)
According
to schedule
Network Theorems
Superposition theorem, Thevenin’s theorem,
Maximum power transfer theorem, Millman’s
theorem, Substitution theorem, Reciprocity
theorem
LAB#6
Tutorial,
(Lab
exam 2)
HW#10
344- 381
Become familiar with
superposition theorem.
Apply Thevenin’s theorem
and to reduce any twoterminal. Become familiar
with Norton’s theorem.
Understand how to apply
maximum power transfer
theorem.
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10
Lessons
28 to 30
Network Theorems
(5 hours
in total)
Superposition theorem, Thevenin’s theorem,
Maximum power transfer theorem, Millman’s
theorem, Substitution theorem, Reciprocity
theorem
LAB#7
Introduction to electric field, capacitance,
dielectric strength, types of capacitors
LAB#8
Tutorial,
344- 381
HW#11
Quiz 5
According
to
schedule
11
Lessons
31 to 33
Capacitors
(5 hours
in total)
Transients in capacitive networks, charging
and discharging phase, initial values,
Thevenin equivalent, capacitors in series and
parallel, energy stored by capacitor
According
to
schedule
12
Lessons
34 to 36
(5 hours
in total)
According
to
schedule
Inductors
Transients in inductive networks, charging and LAB#9
discharging phase, initial values, Thevenin
(Lab
equivalent, inductors in series and parallel,
exam 3)
energy stored by inductor
Tutorial,
396-447
HW#12
Quiz 6
Tutorial,
HW#13
Quiz 7
461-501
Become familiar with
superposition theorem.
Apply Thevenin’s theorem
and to reduce any twoterminal. Become familiar
with Norton’s theorem.
Understand how to apply
maximum power transfer
theorem.
Become familiar with the
basic constructions of a
capacitor. Recognize
different types of
capacitor.
Understand transient is
capacitive networks.
Calculate equivalent
capacitance.
Effect of inductors in DC
steady state circuits
Become familiar with the
basic constructions of a
Inductors. Understand
transient is inductors
networks. Calculate
equivalent inductance.
Effect of inductors in DC
steady state circuits
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13
Lessons
40 to 42
Sinusoidal Alternating
Waveforms
(5 hours
in total)
Introduction to AC signals and the important
Lab #10
concepts of time period, frequency and cycles
RMS value and it is calculation
Tutorial,
HW#14
Quiz 8
Application of AC signals
According
to
schedule
14
Lessons
37 to 39
Magnetic Circuits
The concept of magnetic circuit, similarities
and differences with electric circuit.
(5 hours
in total)
Calculation of Reluctance and magnetic field
within magnetic circuit
According
to
schedule
Combination of magnetic circuits
Their applications
(Lab
exam 4)
Tutorial,
HW#13
Quiz 9
Become familiar with the
characteristics of a
Sinusoidal waveform
including its general
format, average value, and
effective value.
Be able to determine the
phase relationship
between two sinusoidal
waveforms of the same
frequency.
Understand how to
calculate the average and
effective values of any
waveform.
Become familiar with the
use of instruments
designed to measure ac
quantities.
Become aware of the
similarities between the
analysis of magnetic
circuits and electric
circuits.
Develop a clear
understanding of the
important parameters of a
magnetic circuit and how
to find each quantity for a
variety of magnetic circuit
configurations.
Begin to appreciate why a
clear understanding of
magnetic circuit
parameters is an important
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component in the design
of electrical/electronic
systems.
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Final Exam