Fall 2001
ENSC 220-3
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I

(3-1-1)
The SFU Bookstore have ordered several books. They are all only recommended. There is no required textbook for this course.
Tools sale: Wednesday, September 12, noon to 3:00 PM, in front of ASB 9800.
TOPICS HOMEWORK EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

STAFF LABS TUTORIALS PUZZLES WEEK IN REVIEW INFO

Course description: This course will cover: fundamental electrical circuit quantities, and circuit elements; circuits laws (Ohm law and Kirchhoff voltage and current laws); series and parallel connections of circuit elements; operational amplifiers; network theorems; nodal and mesh analysis methods; analysis of natural, step response, and response to sinusoidal input of first (RC and RL) and second order (RLC) circuits; phasor analysis; introduction to real, reactive, and rms power concepts.

Students with credit for ENSC 125-5 cannot take this course for further credit.

Prerequisites: PHYS 121 and PHYS 131.

Co-requisites: MATH 232 and MATH 310.

TOPICS:

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
Posted weekly by Friday, and due by the following Friday.

  • Assignment #1
  • Assignment #2
  • Assignment #3
  • Assignment #4
  • Assignment #5
  • Assignment #6
  • Assignment #7
  • Assignment #8
  • Assignment #9
  • Assignment #10

    MIDTERM EXAM:
    Thursday, October 25, 13:30 - 14:20.

    FINAL EXAM:
    Saturday, December 15, 15:30 - 18:30, C 9002.

    GRADING:
    Laboratory 25%, Assignments 15%, Midterm 20%, and Final 40%.
    Click here to see your grade, midterm exam, final exam, and the total scores distribution charts.

    TEXTBOOKS:

    Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 220 by typing "ENSC 220" (with the space) in the search window.

    In case you have trouble down-loading the ENSC 220 notes from the SFU Library site, try the local site: ENSC 220 course notes.

    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    Tu 13:30 - 14:20 in AQ 3159
    R 13:30 - 15:20 in AQ 3159
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja@cs.sfu.ca

    Tutorials:
    W 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 2104
    R 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 2104
    Alternate weeks: Eric Hennessey eth@sfu.ca and Jeff Robinson jeffr@sfu.ca

    Labs:
    ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)

    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

    LABORATORY STAFF:

    LABORATORIES:

  • Weekly schedule
  • Writing Laboratory Reports & Journals
  • List of goodies in your bag
  • Useful hints
  • Coil winding notes
  • Application note: TDS screen capture via the RS-232 option
  • ENSC 220 Fall 2000
  • Ash's Lab intro to ENSC 220 Lab: slides (lecture, demo) and pdf files (lecture, demo).

    ENSC 9800 Lab photo courtesy of Ash Parameswaran:

    Lab bench orientation:

  • Part 1 - PS and DMM
  • Part 2 - FG and OS

  • Lab #1: KCL and KVL report due October 2, 2001.
  • Lab #2: Op Amp report due October 16, 2001.
  • Lab #3: RL and RC circuits report due November 6, 2001.
  • Lab #4: RLC circuits report due November 27, 2001.
  • Lab #5: AM radio demo due December 10, 2001.

    The Labs were adopted (with minor changes) from the old ENSC 125 course.
    Credits for their design are due to the past instructors of ENSC 125.

    TUTORIALS:

  • W 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 2104:
  • R 15:30 - 16:20 in AQ 2104:
    Alternate weeks: Eric Hennessey eth@sfu.ca and Jeff Robinson jeffr@sfu.ca

    PUZZLES:

  • Puzzle #1: Matching
  • Puzzle #2: Ideal world
  • Puzzle #3: KVL and KCL
  • Puzzle #4: Infinite ladder
  • Puzzle #5: Superposition
  • Puzzle #6: Passivity
  • Puzzle #7: Magic box

    Please let me know if you have a puzzle of your own and I will gladly add it to the list.

    WEEK IN REVIEW:

  • 1. September 3
  • 2. September 10
  • 3. September 17
  • 4. September 24
  • 5. October 1
  • 6. October 8
  • 7. October 15
  • 8. October 22
  • 9. October 29
  • 10. November 5
  • 11. November 12
  • 12. November 19
  • 13. November 26

    INFO:

    TOPICS HOMEWORK EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

    STAFF LABS TUTORIALS PUZZLES WEEK IN REVIEW INFO

    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Tuesday October 15 12:58:37 PDT 2002.