CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, resistive circuits, nodal and mesh analysis, superposition, equivalent circuits using Thevenin-Norton theories, op amps and op amp circuits, first-order circuits, second-order circuits, sinusoidal steady state, phasors, RMS value, complex power, power factor, mutual inductance, linear and ideal transformers, ideal filters and transfer functions.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: MATH 222 and ( PHYSICS 202 , 208 , or 248 ), or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve DC electric circuits composed of resistors, voltage and current sources using Kirchhoff's laws, employing node-voltage and mesh-current analysis along with Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze circuits employing op amps Audience: Undergraduate 3. Formulate transient response of first-order and second-order electric circuits incorporating resistors, inductors, capacitors and sources that are switched Audience: Undergraduate 4. Determine AC steady-state response of electric circuits utilizing phasors and calculation with complex numbers Audience: Undergraduate 5. Characterize the complex power transferred to and from electric circuits Audience: Undergraduate 6. Conduct AC analysis of circuits with transformers Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Solve DC electric circuits composed of resistors, voltage and current sources using Kirchhoff's laws, employing node-voltage and mesh-current analysis along with Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze circuits employing op amps Audience: Undergraduate 3. Formulate transient response of first-order and second-order electric circuits incorporating resistors, inductors, capacitors and sources that are switched Audience: Undergraduate 4. Determine AC steady-state response of electric circuits utilizing phasors and calculation with complex numbers Audience: Undergraduate 5. Characterize the complex power transferred to and from electric circuits Audience: Undergraduate 6. Conduct AC analysis of circuits with transformers Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027