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DORDT COLLEGE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PROBLEM SETS on ELECTRICAL TOPICS (Last update: 5/05/2014 3:58 pm)
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PS # | Assigned | Due | Returned | Assignment |
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| 4/28 |
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Read the information at the following links: Basic Gates Derived Gates The XOR Function Binary Addition Do Problems 29, and 30. Optional Reading: "Using Design Hierarchy in Digital Logic to Illustrate the Scientific Method as a Human Invention." pages 1 – 8 in the September 2013 issue of Pro Rege Optional Reading: A Pulitzer prize-winning book, Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine Available at the John & Louise Hulst Library call number TK7885.4.K53 1990. Read an overview here. Read a reveiw here and some quotes. Read page samples here (scroll down) Oprional reading: "Polysilicon Link Fusing and Detection Circuit," Hewlett Packard Jouranal, August 1983, page 23. download here This assignment will not be peer graded. It will be due for regular grading on 5/02 prior to the test. It will be graded and retured to you during exam week. |
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| 4/18 |
4/28 5/02 | sol'n |
Topic: Mesh analysis Read: Section 16 (p 35 – 38) Do Problems 25, 26, 27, 28. Optional: Milestones in Electrical Engineering Optional: Sigsaly—The start of the digital Revolution This assignment will be graded and returned to you during exam week. |
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| 4/14 |
4/18 4/28 | 4/30 |
Topics: KCL and nodes, equivalent circuits, equivalent of series and parallel resistors Review: Section 14 (p 30 – 33) Read: Section 15 (p 33 – 35) Do Problems 21, 22, 23, 24. Optional: History of heart pacemakers Optional: Arc flash (video) Optional: More on Arc Flash at Wikipedia This assignment will be graded and ready for pick-up outside of the engneering pod prior to the test. |
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| 3/31 |
4/14 4/18 | 4/28 |
Topics: Circuit Analysis, KVL and loops Read: Sections 13, 14 (p 28 – 33) Do: Problems 17, 18, 19, 20 Optional: A short biography of Kirchhoff Optional: On Wednesday (4/09) we will learn how to solder and build an FM transmitter toy. You can view a video tutorial on soldering and read about caring for the soldering iron. |
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| 3/28 |
3/31 4/14 | 4/18 |
Topics: Power Systems & Signals, Professional Membership, "CQD"--pubic safety and engineering, Bandwidth, "1984"--hubris and motives to do engineering (p 22 – 27) Read: Sections 9, 10, 11, 12 (p 22 – 28) Do: Problems 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Optional: Nova Video, "Decoding Nazi Secrets" A quote from the show, ". . . brains over bullets." Available at The John & Louise Hulst Library Call no. D810.C88 D42 1999 (2 hrs, VHS) Companion web site at PBS Optional: 1984 Apple Macintosh Commercial (You Tube) Wikipedia on the Apple Commercial |
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| 3/24 | 3/28 3/31 | 4/01 |
Topics: Resistors, models and the passive sign convention Read: Sections 7 and 8 (p 18 – 22) Do: Problems 8, 9, 10, 11 Optional: Video lecture: The Passive Sign Convention Video lecture: Passive Sign Convention Examples Note: The passive sign convention is easy once you clearly understand it. However, there are lots of bad descriptions of it floating around on the internet. Stick with the IEE handout, the videos above, or ask in class rather than conslulting the internet on this matter. Optional: The importance of understanding units Does $0.002 = 0.002 cents? |
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| 3/21 |
3/24 3/26 | 3/31 |
Topics: Electric Energy, "Free Niagara," AC Circuits Read: Sections 4, 5 and 6 (p 6 – 18) Do: Problems 5, 6, 7 Optional: The Grid. (13 min. video) Optional: read about arc flash and watch When good transformers go bad, 480 volt 3-phase Arc Flash Demonstration An arc-flash incident in 2008 Detial on the above--the arc-blast. The point is that safety matters. Electric circuits can delever impresseive amounts of destructive energy when failures happen. |
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| 3/07 |
3/211 3/242 | 3/283 |
Topics: Charge and Current, SI units, Voltage Read: IEE Sections 1, 2, 3 (Read up to Section 4 on page 6.) Do: Problems 1, 2, 3, 4 Optional: 14 minute video on fuel cell cars. |
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