COURSE SCHEDULE

Week Topic/Content Readings Instructional
Strategies/
Tests and
Assignments

Week-1
• Introduction to Course Outline and Course
• Learning Outcomes
• Electrical Components and Measuring
• Instruments.
• System of Units
• Scientific and Engineering Notation
• Metric Prefixes and Metric Conversions
• Atoms and their structure, Conductors,
• Semiconductors, and Insulators.
• Electrical charge

Chapter 1:
Components,
Quantities, and Units
Sections: 1-1 to 1-4
Chapter 2:
Voltage, Current, and
Resistance
2.1 to 2-2

Lab:
Introduction to the
Student:
-Lab Work
-Lab Report
-Lab Safety
Lab: #1
Metric Prefixes,
Scientific Notation and
Graphing


Week-2

• The sinusoidal waveform
• Sinusoidal voltage sources
• Sinusoidal voltage and current values
• Angular Measurement
• The sine wave formula
• Introduction to phasors
• Analysis of AC circuits
• Superimposed DC and AC voltages
• Nonsinusoidal waveforms
• The Oscilloscope

Chapter 11
11-1 to 11-10

Lab: #2
Experiment#17
The Oscilloscope

Experiment#18
Sine-wave measurements


Week-3

• The complex number system
• Sinusoidal response of series RC Circuits
• Impedance of series RC circuits
• Impedance and admittance of parallel RC Circuits

Chapter 15: RC Circuits
15-1 to 15-5

Lab: # 3
Experiment#19
Pulse measurements
Experiment#25
Series RC Circuits


Week-4

• Analysis of parallel RC Circuits
• Analysis of series-parallel RC Circuits
• Power in RC Circuits
• Basic Applications and Troubleshooting
• A circuit application
Chapter 15: RC Circuits
15-6 to 15-10

Lab: #4
Experiment#26
Parallel RC Circuits

Week-5

...CLASS TEST
...LAB TEST

Week-6

• Sinusoidal response of RL Circuits
• Impedance of series RL Circuits
• Analysis of series RL circuits
• Impedance and admittance of parallel RL Circuits
• Analysis of parallel RL Circuits

Chapter 16: RL Circuits
16-1 to 16-5

Lab: #5
Experiment#27
Series RL Circuits

Week-7

• Analysis of series-parallel RL circuits
• Power in RL Circuits
• Basic Applications and troubleshooting
• A circuit application

Chapter 16: RL Circuits
16-6 to 16-9

Lab: #6
Experiment#28
Parallel RL Circuits


Week-8

• Impedance of series RLC circuits
• Analysis of series RLC circuits
• Series resonance
• Impedance of parallel RLC circuits
Chapter 17: RLC Circuits and Resonance
17-1 to 17-5

Lab: #7
Experiment#29
Series Resonance

Week-9

• Parallel Resonance
• Analysis of series-parallel RLC circuits
• Bandwidth of resonant circuits
• Applications

Chapter 17: RLC Circuits and Resonance
17-6 to 17-9

Lab: #8
Experiment#30
Parallel Resonance

Week-10
• Low-pass filters
• High-pass filters
• Band-pass filters
• Band-stop filters
• A circuit application

Chapter 18: Passive filters
18-1 to 18-4

Lab: #9
Experiment#31
Passive Filters


Week-11

...CLASS TEST
...LAB TEST

Week-12

• The superposition theorem
• Thevenin’s Theorem
• Norton’s Theorem
• Maximum power transfer theorem
• A circuit application

Chapter 19: Circuit Theorems in AC Analysis
19-1 to 19-4

Lab: # 10
Experiment#32
Circuit Theorems for AC Circuits

Week-13

• The RC Integrator
• Response of an RC integrator to a single pulse
• Response of RC integrator to repetitive pulses
• Response of an RC differentiator to a single pulse
• Response of RC differentiators to repetitive pulses
• Response of RL integrators to pulse inputs
• Response of RF differentiators to pulse inputs
• Relationship of time response to frequency response
• Troubleshooting and a circuit application
Chapter 20: Time Response of Reactive Circuits
20-1 to 20-9

Lab: #11
Experiment#33
Integrating and differentiating circuits