Fall 1998
ENSC 220-3
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS I

(3-1-1)

Our ENSC220 mailing list (ensc220-d1@sfu.ca) is not valid any longer!
  • Please return those cute, little, variable capacitors, even if you do not care about your $2 deposit.
  • The SFU Bookstore promised to buy back certain number of your ENSC 220 textbooks (N. Balabanian, Electric Circuits), but only in time for the Fall' 99 semester.

  • TOPICS HOMEWORK EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

    STAFF LABS TUTORIALS PUZZLES INFO WEEK IN REVIEW


    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 and step response of first (RC and RL) and second order (RLC) circuits; real, reactive, and rms power concepts.

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

    Prerequisites: PHYS 121, PHYS 131, and ENSC 151.

    Co-requisites: MATH 232 and MATH 310.


    TOPICS:


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

  • Assignment #1
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  • Assignment #5
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  • Assignment #11
  • Assignment #12


    MIDTERM EXAMS:
    Wednesday, October 14, 10:30 - 11:20
    Friday, November 6, 10:30 - 11:20

    FINAL EXAM:
    Thursday, December 17, 12:00 - 15:00, K 9500.


    GRADING:
    Laboratory 30%, Assignments 10%, Midterms 20%, and Final 40%.

    Click here to see your scores.


    TEXTBOOKS:
    Used in the course:

  • Norman Balabanian, Electric Circuits, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1994.
    Errata page

    The following books will be soon available through the library reserve:

  • Norman Balabanian, Electric Circuits, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1994. (2 hours)
  • James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits (Fifth edition), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1996. (4 hours)
  • James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Using Computer Tools for Electric Circuits (Fifth edition), Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1996. (4 hours)
  • Sergio Franco, Electric Circuits Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. (4 hours)
  • Artice M. Davis, Linear Circuit Analysis, PWS Publishing Co., Boston, MA 1998. (4 hours)
  • Raymond A. DeCarlo and Pen-Min Lin,
    Linear Circuit Analysis Volume I: A Time Domain and Phasor Approach, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (4 hours)
    Linear Circuit Analysis Volume II: A Laplace Transform Approach, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (Not available)
    Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasors, and Laplace Transforms Approaches, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1995. (Not available)
  • Richard C. Dorf and James A. Svoboda, Introduction to Electric Circuits (Fourth edition), John Wiley & Sons, 1998. (4 hours)
  • Great source of interesting information:
    Richard M. White and Roger W. Doering, Electrical Engineering Uncovered, 1/e, Prentice Hall, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, 1997. (24 hours)

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


    SCHEDULE:
    Lectures:
    MWF 10:30 - 11:20 in AQ 3159

    Tutorials:
    M 15:30 - 16:30 AQ 5020: Arash Haidari-Khabbaz ahaidari@sfu.ca
    T 15:30 - 16:30 AQ 5030: Jerri Lee jleem@sfu.ca
    W 15:30 - 16:30 AQ 5020: Kevin Henderson hendersi@cs.sfu.ca

    Labs:
    ENSC 9800 Laboratories (open lab)
    ACS MCF PC Lab (reserved: Tu: 12:30 - 1:30 PM; M - Th: 5:30 - 10 PM) CANCELED
    ACS Assignment Lab, 3144 East Concourse (open lab)


    PROFESSOR:

    TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

    LABORATORY ENGINEERS:

    SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

    LABORATORIES:

  • Weekly schedule
  • Writing Laboratory Reports & Journals

    Lab bench orientation:

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

  • Lab #1: KCL and KVL
  • Lab #2: Op-amps
  • Lab #3: RL and RC circuits
  • Lab #4: RLC circuits
  • Lab #5: AM radio

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


    TUTORIALS:

  • Tutorial M 15:30 - 16:30: ahaidari@sfu.ca
  • Tutorial T 15:30 - 16:30: jleem@sfu.ca
  • Tutorial W 15:30 - 16:30: hendersi@cs.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 7
  • 2. September 14
  • 3. September 21
  • 4. September 28
  • 5. October 5
  • 6. October 12
  • 7. October 19
  • 8. October 26
  • 9. November 2
  • 10. November 9
  • 11. November 16
  • 12. November 23
  • 13. November 30

    INFO:


    TOPICS HOMEWORK EXAMS TEXTBOOKS SCHEDULE

    STAFF LABS TUTORIALS PUZZLES INFO WEEK IN REVIEW


    Created by
    Ljiljana Trajkovic
    ljilja@cs.sfu.ca
    Last modified: Fri Oct 23 18:01:51 PDT 1998.