Title: Dordt College Engineering Department
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Last saved by: Douglas F. De Boer

Dordt College
EGR 220, PHYS 206, Linear Circuits and Electronics
Fall 2010 Syllabus

2010-11
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EGR 220 Linear Circuits and Electronics  (4 credit hours)	 (Fall)
PHYS 206 Linear Circuits and Electronics  (4 credit hours)	 (Fall)
Assumes a prerequisite knowledge of DC electrical circuits including the definitions of electrical quantities, circuit elements (sources, resistors, capacitors, inductors), understanding of Kirchhoff’s laws and basic concepts in AC circuits such as frequency and phase.  Topics in this course include general linear circuit analysis including Norton’s and Thevenin’s theorems, superposition, nodal and loop analysis, natural and forced responses in RLC circuits, and sinusoidal steady state analysis.  The course also gives introductions to operational amplifier circuits, single stage BJT and FET transistor circuits and steady-state balanced 3-phase power calculations.  The lab includes a formal design project.  Prerequisite: one of Engineering 104 or Physics 116 or 202.  Corequisite:  Mathematics 204.  [Cross listed: Physics 206, Engineering 220]

Textbook:

Alexander and Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2009
(ISBN 978-0-07-352955-4).

References:

Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics, 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press.
Edminister, Joseph, Schaum’s Outlines—Electric Circuits

Instructor: | Douglas De Boer

Course Objectives and Outcomes:

Creational Structure:  Students will understand electrical theory to the extent that they will be able to apply systematic techniques of linear circuit analysis as described in the college catalog.  This means that students will be able to represent a circuit via a well labeled schematic drawing, derive appropriate equations from the schematic, and know how to solve those equations.  This will be the main goal of this course.  Additional goals are listed below.
Creational Development:  Students will be able to recount several of the important historical contributions in the development of the modern techniques of circuit analysis.  This includes knowledge of the names of some of the persons who made these important contributions.
Contemporary Response:  Students will write on how the technical subjects of this course have been applied in culture.
Religious Orientation:  Students will write on the worldview or religious motivations of one of the key contributors to the field of linear circuit analysis or a related field.

Prerequisites by topic: | Calculus including techniques of integration, sequences, and series.  DC electrical circuits including the definitions of electrical quantities, circuit elements (sources, resistors, capacitors, inductors), understanding of Kirchhoff’s laws.  Basic concepts in AC circuits such as frequency and phase.
Laboratory: | The laboratory session meets for 3-hours each week.  The first six weeks are used to cover basic instrumentation including measurement uncertainties and loading effects.  Three of the first six weeks are devoted to a design project.  Two weeks are devoted to transients in first and second-order circuits.  Six weeks are devoted to miscellaneous topics: operational amplifiers, circuit simulation, diodes and rectifiers, single transistor circuits, etc..
Computer use: | Orcad-Pspice is used for circuit simulation.  Students are encouraged (but not required) to use programs such as Mathcad or Matlab for homework solutions when appropriate.
Academic Dishonesty: | Students must do their own work.  Students may discuss homework but may not show papers to each other outside of peer grading.  This course is subject to the College’s policies on academic dishonesty.  See http://www.dordt.edu/publications/defender/ under the category “General Information.”  See also the homework standards posted on the course web page.
Accommodations: | Students who require assistance or accommodations based on the impact of a documented disability must contact Marliss Van Der Zwaag, the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities to access accommodations.  Telephone 722-6490, e-mail mvdzwaag@dordt.edu

Means of 
Evaluation:

Homework (10%), Two Tests (25% each), One Formal Laboratory Report (8 %), 
One Research paper (7%), Final Exam (25%)

Dordt College
EGR 220, PHYS 206, Linear Circuits and Electronics
Fall 2010 Syllabus, Course Outline
Dates | Class | Laboratory (Mon, Tu.)

8/25	8/27

Introduction, basic definitions, circuit elements 
Text: Chapters 1–2

(no lab this week)

8/30	9/01	9/03

Meters, Dependent Sources, Switches, KVL, KCL
Text:  Chapter 2

1.)	Safety and introduction to the instrumentation

9/06	9/08	9/10 | Nodal and mesh analysis including handling of supernodes and supermeshes  Text:  Chapter 3 | 2.)	Uncertainty, Tolerances, and Loading Effects

9/13	9/15	9/17

Circuit Theorems:  Superposition, Source Transformations, Thevenin’s, 
Text:  Chapter 4through Section 4.5

3.)	Introduction to the oscilloscope and signal generator

9/20	9/22	9/24

Circuit Theorems: Norton’s, Maximum Power Transfer
Text:  Chapter 4, section 4.6 to the end.

4.)	Introduction to circuit simulation

9/27	9/29	10/01
      Wed, 9/29 Test

Operational amplifiers.  
Text: Chapter 5 
Test on Wednesday

5.)	Project
(1^st of 3 weeks)

10/04	10/05	
(no class Friday, 10/08)

Capacitors and inductors.  
Text:  Chapter 6 through Section 6.3.

Project
(2^nd of 3 weeks)

10/11	10/13	10/15

Capacitors and inductors.
Text:  Chapter 6 Section 6.4 to the end.

Project
(3^rd of 3 weeks)

10/18	10/20	
(no class Friday, 10/22
ASEE meeting)

First order circuits.  
Text Chapter 7

6.)	Op amps

10/25	10/27	10/29

Second order circuits.  
Text Chapter 8

7.)	RL and RC circuits, step and pulse responses

11/01	11/03	11/05
       Wed, 11/03 Test

Sinusoidal Steady State, Text Chapter 9
Test on Wednesday

8.)	RLC circuits

11/08	11/10	11/12

Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis,
Text Chapter 10

9.)	Diodes and Rectifiers

11/15	11/17	11/19

Diodes and Transistors
Handout

10.) 	Sinusoidal Steady-State and Phasors

11/22		
(no class 11/24, 11/26)

Introduction to AC steady-state power, 
Text Chapter 11.

11.)	Transistors

12/01	12/03
(no class Monday 11/29)

AC steady-state power, transformers, diodes, rectifier circuits.  Text Chapter 11.

(no lab this week)

12/06	12/08	
  (no class Fri., 12/10)

Three-Phase circuits.  Text Chapter 12.

12.) 	Common Emitter Amplifier

Monday, 12/13 | Final exam, Monday, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |

Note:  Schedule may vary by up to two weeks in order to accommodate the dynamics of this particular cohort of students.