ES 200 - Electrical Networks

Credit Hours: 4

Topics include lumped parameters in electrical networks. Basic concepts of charge, voltage, current, and power for R, L, and C circuit elements. Analytical techniques such as loop and nodal equations; Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws; Thevenin and Norton Theorems and maximum power transfer. Voltage and current sources; differential equations and phasors; and passive filters.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

analyze basic concepts and circuit laws;
- determine electric charge, power and energy in basic circuit elements;
- apply Kirchoff’s Voltage and Current Laws;
- determine equivalent resistance, capacitance, inductance of series and parallel configurations, Wye-Delta transformation;
- use nodal and mesh analysis;
- use source transformation;
- apply Thevenin’s and Norton’s Theorem; and
- utilize computers to analyze circuits.
analyze Op Amp circuits;
- analyze Op Amp circuit in different configurations - inverting, non-inverting, summing, difference, integrating, differentiating, and cascading.
analyze first-order RC and RL circuits;
- analyze source-free and step response of RC and RL circuits;
- understand and utilize singularity functions; and
- utilize computer to analyze circuits.
analyze second-order RLC;
- analyze source-free and step response of RLC circuits;
- understand general second order circuits; and
- utilize computers to analyze circuits.
analyze basic AC circuits using phasors and sinusoids; and
- apply phasor concept to circuit analysis;
- understand and apply the concepts of impedance and admittance; and
- apply Kirchoff’s Law in the frequency domain.
analyze passive filter circuits using phasors, sinusoids, and Bode plots.
- apply phasor concepts to passive filter circuits;
- understand and apply the concept of transfer functions; and
- generate Bode plots of frequency response.

Concurrent Registration: MT 284, PH 282, PH 283
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