Fall 2017
ENSC 220
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I

(3-1-1)

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TOPICS WEEK IN REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS

SCHEDULE STAFF LABS TUTORIAL PUZZLES WEB SITES 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 or PHYS 126 or PHYS 141) and ENSC 120.

Co-requisites: MATH 232 and MATH 310.


TOPICS:


WEEK IN REVIEW:

  • 1. September 4, 2017 (revised)
  • 2. September 11, 2017 (revised)
  • 3. September 18, 2017
  • 4. September 25, 2017
  • 5. October 2, 2017 (revised)
  • 6. October 9, 2017
  • 7. October 16, 2017
  • 8. October 23, 2017
  • 9. October 30, 2017 (revised)
  • 10. November 6, 2017
  • 11. November 13, 2017 (early posting)
  • 12. November 20, 2017 (early posting)
  • 13. November 27, 2017
  • 14. December 4, 2017 (revised)

    ASSIGNMENTS:
    Posted weekly by Friday and due by the following Sunday.

  • Assignment: Plagiarism Tutorial
  • Assignment #1
  • Assignment #2
  • Assignment #3
  • Assignment #4
  • Assignment #5
  • Assignment #6
  • Assignment #7
  • Assignment #8
  • Assignment #9
  • Assignment #10 (early posting)
  • Assignment #11
  • Assignment #12
  • Assignment #13 (revised, deadline extended)


    EXAMS:

    MIDTERM EXAM:
    Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 13:30 - 14:20, WMC 3520 (revised)
    Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 12:30 - 14:20, WMC 3520

    LAB TESTS:
    Friday, October 27, 2017, 9:30 - 16:50
    Friday, December 1, 2017, 9:30 - 16:50

    FINAL EXAM:
    Saturday, December 16, 2017, 12:00 noon - 15:00 RCB IMAGTH RC Brown

    FAS policy on mid-terms and finals is described in Section 5.7 of the FAS Handbook.
    Academic honesty and plagiarism


    GRADING:
    Assignments 15%, Laboratory 15%, Laboratory test no. 1 5%, Laboratory test no. 2 5%, Midterm no. 1 10%, Midterm no. 2 10%, and Final 40%.
    Click here to see your grade and midterm exam 1, midterm exam 2, final exam, and the overall scores distribution charts.


    RESOURCES: Conflict resolution

    TEXTBOOKS:

    Check the status of the books on reserve for ENSC 220.


    Old ENSC 220 notes are available from the local site: ENSC 220 course notes. Students taking the course in Fall 2017 are kindly advised to use recommended texts.

    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    Monday, 12:30 - 14:20, WMC 3520
    Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:20, WMC 3520
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

    Tutorial:
    Wednesday, 13:30 - 14:20, WMC 3520
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

    Labs:
    ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)
    LA01: Thursday, 14:30 - 16:50, Zhida Li, zhidal at sfu.ca
    LA02: Friday, 09:30 - 11:50, Mike Hegedus mhegedus at sfu.ca
    LA03: Friday, 12:00 noon - 14:20, cancelled
    LA04: Friday, 14:30 - 16:50, Devarshi Patel dpa37 at sfu.ca


    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:


    LABORATORY STAFF:


    LABORATORIES:

  • Lab teams (TBA)
  • Weekly schedule
  • Toolkit sale
  • List of goodies in your bag, revised
  • Location of manuals
  • Introduction to ENSC 220 Lab, lecture given on September 16, 2008 (PDF file, size 2,421,609 bytes)
  • Practical guide to errors and error propagation by Glenn Chapman
  • Digital Multimeter (DMM) notes by Ash Parameswaran
  • Fluke 45 manual
  • Application note: TDS screen capture via the RS-232 option
  • Useful hints
  • Instructions for writing ENSC 220 Lab reports
  • Writing Laboratory Reports & Journals
  • Introduction to ENSC 220 Lab, Ash Parameswaran (2001): slides (lecture, demo) and pdf files (lecture, demo).

    ENSC 9800 Lab photo courtesy of Ash Parameswaran:


    Lab bench orientation:
  • Part 1 - PS and DMM (experiments to be completed by September 17, 2017)
  • Part 2 - FG and OS (experiments to be completed by October 29, 2017)

  • Lab #1: KCL and KVL (report due October 1, 2017)
       Required: Lab #1 worksheet

  • Lab #2: Op Amp (report due October 22, 2017, postponed from October 15, 2017)
       Required: Lab #2 cover sheet
       Lab #2: Op Amp TL071 data sheet
       Lab #2: Capturing the Screenshot on Oscilloscope HMO 1002 Series by Zhendong Cao
       Lab #2: Supplement notes by Glenn Chapman
       Lab #2: Supplement notes by Ash Parameswaran
       Lab #2: Suggested breadboard wiring layout by Ash Parameswaran

  • Lab #3: RL and RC circuits (revised) (report due November 12, 2017)
       Required: Lab #3 cover sheet
       Lab #3: Supplement notes by Ash Parameswaran
       Lab #3: Coil winding notes

  • Lab #4: RLC circuits (report due November 26, 2017
       Required: Lab #4 cover sheet

  • Lab #5: AM radio (report due December 10, 2017)
       Required: Lab #5 cover sheet
       Lab #5: Supplement notes by Ash Parameswaran
       Lab #5: Suggested breadboard wiring layout by Ash Parameswaran

    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.


    TUTORIAL:

  • Wednesday 15:30 - 16:20 in WMC 3520

    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.


    WEB SITES OF INTEREST:

  • ENSC 380: MATLAB Tutorials: Matlab-Primer.pdf and MIT-Matlab-Tutorial.pdf
  • PSpice Evaluation Version Downloads
  • 5Spice Analysis Software
  • ENSC 220 Summer 2008
  • ENSC 220 Fall 2005
  • ENSC 220 Fall 2003
    Generic links:
  • ENSC Course Information
  • ENSC 220-3 Electric Circuits I

    INFO:


    TOPICS WEEK IN REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE STAFF

    LABS TUTORIAL PUZZLES WEB SITES INFO


    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Fri Dec 15 00:46:38 PST 2017.