ELEC 2501

Circuits and Signals

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Properties of signals. Basic circuit elements: voltage and current sources. Kirchhoff's laws, linearity, superposition. Thevenin and Norton's theorems. Circuit simplification. AC steady-state analysis: impedance, admittance, phasors, frequency response. Transient response of RL and RC circuits: form of response, initial and final conditions. RLC circuits: resonance.

2025

Readings

J. D. Irwin and R. M. Nelms, Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 12th Ed., Wiley, 2021

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for ELEC 3605 . Prerequisite(s): MATH 1005 (may be taken concurrently) and ( PHYS 1004 or PHYS 1002 ), and ECOR 1032 . Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours a week.

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
Circuits and Signals ↗2025