| Instructor: | Professor Cowley |
| Office: BSB 410, email: cowley@camden.rutgers.edu |
| Required Texts: | Nilsson and Riedel, Electric Circuits (Sixth Edition), |
| Student's Guide and PSpice CD(shrink wrapped) |
| Grading: | Homework (one problem per class) | 25% |
| Final exam | 30% | |
| Three tests @ 15% each | 45% |
We first pick up the material that we jumped over in the first semester, using intuitive analysis methods.
| Chapter 7: | Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits | (4 lectures) |
| Chapter 8: | Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits | (3 lectures) |
The next two chapters introduce a very powerful mathematical approach, the Laplace transform technique. This may seem very abstract at first, but try to relate the solutions that you get this way with the results that we found using simpler methods.
| Chapter 12: | Introduction to the Laplace Transform | (5 lectures) |
| Chapter 13: | The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis | (4 lectures) |
The next chapter contains the important idea of resonance. We could, in fact, have investigated this without the Laplace transform method.
| Chapter 14: | Introduction to Frequency Selective Circuits | (3 lectures) |
| Chapter 15: | Active Filter Circuits | (2 lectures) |
The remaining material deals with Fourier transform techniques. These are probably less useful in circuit analysis than the Laplace transform method, but, in other areas of applied math, are probably more valuable.
| Chapter 16: | Fourier Series | (2 lectures) |
| Chapter 17: | The Fourier Transform | (2 lectures) |