Fall 2014
ENSC 220
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I

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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 or PHYS 131).

Co-requisites: MATH 232 and MATH 310.

TOPICS:

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

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

    EXAMS:

    MIDTERM EXAM:
    Monday, October 6, 2014, 14:30 - 15:20, AQ 3181 (note new duration)
    Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 14:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181 (note new date and duration)

    FINAL EXAM:
    Friday, December 12, 2014, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM, SWH 10081

    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%, Midterm 1 10%, Midterm 2 20%, and Final 40%.
    Click here to see your grade, midterm 1 exam, midterm 2 exam, final exam, and the overall scores distribution charts.

    RESOURCES: Conflict resolution

    TEXTBOOKS:

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

    Old ENSC 220 notes are available from the local site: ENSC 220 course notes. Students taking the course in Fall 2014 are kindly advised to use recommended texts.

    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    Monday 14:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181
    Wednesday 14:30 - 15:20, AQ 3181
    Ljiljana Trajkovic ljilja at cs.sfu.ca

    Tutorial:
    Wednesday 15:30 - 16:20, AQ 3181

    Labs:
    ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)
    Tuesday, 14:30 - 16:50
    Thursday, 14:30 - 16:50
    Friday, 09:30 - 11:50
    Friday, 13:30 - 15:50

    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

    LABORATORY STAFF:

    LABORATORIES:

  • Lab teams (final)
  • Weekly schedule (revised)
  • Toolkit sale
  • List of goodies in your bag, revised
  • Instructions for writing ENSC 220 Lab reports
  • 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
  • Fluke 45 manual
  • Application note: TDS screen capture via the RS-232 option
  • Useful hints
  • Coil winding notes
  • 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 14, 2014)
  • Part 2 - FG and OS (experiments to be completed by October 26, 2014)

  • Lab #1: KCL and KVL (report due September 28, 2014)
       Required: Lab #1 worksheet

  • Lab #2: Op Amp (report due October 12, 2014)
       Required: Lab #2 cover sheet
       Op Amp TL071 data sheet
       Optional material:
       Screen capture notes by Glenn Chapman
       ENSC 220 Lab 2 supplement by Glenn Chapman

  • Lab #3: RL and RC circuits (revised) (report due November 16, 2014, extended deadline)

  • Lab #4: RLC circuits (report due November 23, 2014)

  • Lab #5: AM radio (report due December 7, 2014, extended deadline)
    Lab #5 instructons for Fall 2014 (PDF file)

    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 AQ 3181

    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:

  • ENSC380: 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

    WEEK IN REVIEW:

  • 1. September 1, 2014
  • 2. September 8, 2014 (revised)
  • 3. September 15, 2014 (revised)
  • 4. September 22, 2014
  • 5. September 29, 2014 (revised)
  • 6. October 6, 2014
  • 7. October 13, 2014 (revised)
  • 8. October 20, 2014
  • 9. October 27, 2014
  • 10. November 3, 2014
  • 11. November 10, 2014
  • 12. November 17, 2014
  • 13. November 24, 2014 (revised)
  • 14. December 1, 2014

    INFO:

    TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

    STAFF LABS TUTORIAL PUZZLES WEEK IN REVIEW WEB SITES INFO

    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja at cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Fri Nov 28 14:22:41 PST 2014.