AEE 2110 - Electric Circuits I

DC and sinusoidal steady state (AC) analysis of circuits. Basic passive circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors). Voltage and current sources. Kirchhoff laws. Loop and nodal analysis. Circuit theorems: Superposition, Maximum power transfer, Thevenin, Norton. Forced and natural responses of RL and RC circuits using the differential equation approach. Sinusoidal signals, complex numbers, phasors and impedance concepts. Average and RMS quantities. Steady state time-domain behavior of inductors and capacitors. Complex, average and apparent power. Introduction to the use of electrical measurement equipment such as voltmeters, ammeters, wattmeters, function generators and oscilloscopes. Voltage, current and impedance measurement