E1201: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
Spring 2003
Syllabus: This is a preliminary syllabus for the lectures; it will be updated as we progress through the semester
Labs: The syllabus for the laboratories is provided on the Laboratory Schedule Page
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Dates
	Week 1
01/22/03	1.1 Overview of Electrical Engineering.
	1.2 Circuits, Currents, and Voltages.
	1.3 Power and Energy
	Week 2
01/27/03	1.4 Kirchhoff's Current Law.
	1.5 Kirchhoff's Voltage Law.
01/28/03	1.6 Introduction to Circuit Elements. (except dependent voltage and dependent current sources)
	Week 3
02/03/03	1.7 Introduction to Circuits.
	2.1 Resistances in Series and Parallel.
	2.2 Network Analysis by Using Series and Parallel Equivalents.
	2.3 Voltage-Divider and Current-Divider Circuits.
02/05/03	2.4 Node-Voltage Analysis. (up to pag. 65, not including 'Circuits with voltage sources'))
	Supplementary material Thevenin & Norton
	2.6 Pages 88-90, 'Source Transformations'
	Week 4
02/10/03	Supplementary material Superposition
	2.7 Pages 95-96, 'Using superposition to solve circuits'
	******** up to here Material TEST 1 ********
02/12/03	11.1 Page 467 'Common Ground Node', Page 468 'Voltage Amplifier Model', Example 11.1, Page 471 'Loading Effects'
	11.2 Cascaded Amplifiers
	Week 5
02/17/03	School Closed – Snow Emergency
02/19/03	TEST 1
	Week 6
02/24/03	Supplementary Material: Operational Amplifiers
	14.1 Page 609 'Power supply connections'
	14.2 Summing-Point Constraint.
	14.3 Inverting Amplifiers up to 11.3.2
	14.4 Noninverting Amplifiers up to Page 619
02/26/03	14.5 Design of Simple Amplifiers up to Example 14.3 & excluding Fig. 14.17)
	3.1 Capacitance.
	3.2 Capacitances in Series and Parallel.
	3.3 Physical Characteristics of Capacitors excluding 3.3.4, including example 3.5
	Week 7
03/03/03	4.1 First-Order RC Circuits.
	Supplementary Material: Analysis of circuits containing capacitors, switches, and voltage sources
	Supplementary Material: Single time constant RC circuits
03/05/03	3.4 Inductance.
	3.5 Inductances in Series and Parallel.
	3.6 Practical Inductors excluding 'Parasitic Effects'
	4.2 DC Steady State.
	Week 8
03/10/03	4.3 RL Circuits.
	Supplementary Material: Single time constant RL circuits
	Supplementary Material: Transformers
	******** up to here Material TEST 2 ********
03/12/03	TEST2
	Week 9
	Spring Break
	Week 10
03/24/03	Frequency response: Lab text background experiments 7 & 8 + your notes from class
03/26/03	10.1 Basic Diode Concepts.
	10.2 Load-Line Analysis of Diode Circuits.
	10.3 Zener-Diode Voltage-Regulator Circuits up to “Slope of the load line”
	10.4 Ideal-Diode Model.
	Week 11
03/31/03	10.5 Piecewise-Linear Diode Models: “Simple PWL Diode Eq. Circuit” only
	10.6 Rectifier Circuits.
04/02/03	Lab text: Amplitude modulation (background experiment 10)
	10.7 Wave-Shaping Circuits: “Clipper Circuits” only
	Week 12
04/07/03	Supplementary Material: pn junctions & MOS transistors
04/09/03	Supplementary Material: pn junctions & MOS transistors (ctd.)
	******** up to here Material TEST 3 ********
	Week 13
04/14/03	7.1 Basic Logic Circuit Concepts.
	7.2 Representation of Numerical Data in Binary Form (Section Binary Numbers & Binary Arithmetic only)
	7.3 Combinatorial Logic Circuits.
04/16/03	7.4 Synthesis of Logic Circuits.
	Week 14
04/21/03	TEST3
04/23/03	7.5 Minimization of Logic Circuits: up to Karnaugh maps
	Week 15
04/28/03	7.6 Sequential Logic Circuits.
04/30/03	12.7 CMOS Logic Gates (page 550 only)
	Week 16
05/05/03	TBD
	Week 17
	FINALS