ENEL220-14W (C) Whole Year 2014

Circuits and Signals

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 September 2014

Description

Circuit laws and theorems. Transients and steady state behaviours of resistive, capacitive and inductive circuits. Laplace transforms. Linear system behaviour

Topics covered include:
• Fundamentals of charge, voltage, current and power;
• ideal sources;
• current-voltage relationships for basic components;
• modelling of real components;
• Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws;
• series and parallel combinations;
• nodal and mesh analysis;
• properties of linear networks;
• Thévenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, maximum power transfer theorem;
• superposition;
• capacitor and inductor modeling;
• source-free response of RLC circuits;
• 1st and 2nd order RLC circuits, initial conditions, forced response, complete response;
• transients and the Laplace transform;
• frequency response;
• high pass, low pass, bandpass, and bandreject filters;
• complex frequency, pole-zero and Bode plots, resonance;
• trigonometric form of Fourier series, complex form of Fouries series, circuit analysis using Fourier series expansion, Fourier transform techniques.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Use the basic DC circuit techniques to find current values, voltage values and power absorption values in a DC circuit containing ideal independent sources, resistors and dependent sources;
  • use practical sources and series/parallel rules to create equivalent circuits as a problem solving tool;
  • find basic Norton and Thévenin equivalent circuits and understand their utility;
  • understand the modeling of inductors and capacitors and their current-voltage relationships;
  • solve basic RL, RC and RLC circuits using established methods and understand how these solutions follow from the basic modeling;
  • be able to perform all the basic techniques (nodal and mesh analysis, superposition, Norton equivalents etc.) in the s-domain using Laplace methods;
  • have some understanding of the utility and interpretation of the s-domain,
  • understand the complex plane plotting techniques and their uses for filter design and understanding resonance;
  • be aware of Fourier methods and have an understanding of their applications in system analysis.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Restrictions

ENEL202

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Peter Smith

Lecturer

Masako Kishida

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
End of Year Exam 30%
Mid Year Exam 40%
Homework 10%
Test 20%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Hayt, William Hart , Kemmerly, Jack E., Durbin, Steven M; Engineering circuit analysis ; 8th ed; McGraw-Hill, 2012.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $841.00

International fee $4,638.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

All ENEL220 Occurrences

  • ENEL220-14W (C) Whole Year 2014