Credits and Contact Hrs. (Lecture/Laboratory): 3 Credits , 35 contact hours per semester.

Course Description: Practical concepts of DC circuits: resistance, resistivity, power and magnetism. Circuit calculations using basic formulas.

Prerequisites: Basic algebra. 

Co-Requisites: SET 112, EET 110L.

Textbooks: Boylestad. Introductory Circuit Analysis, 8^th ed. Prentice-Hall. 1997. 

Reference(s): None. 

Course Coordinator: Professor Joseph M. Farren.

Goals/Objectives: 

• To introduce the basic concepts of electricity including an understanding of current, voltage, resistance and power. To introduce basic DC circuit analysis using Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws and equivalent circuits.
• To introduce advanced circuit analysis concepts such as MeshV and Nodal Analysis and the network theorems.
• To explore the concepts of magnetism and the magnetic circuit.  

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic:  

• Introduction to course, systems of units, powers of 10 and engineering notation. (1 hr.)

• The structure of the atom and how electron flow is possible. The differences between conductors and insulators. (2 hrs.)

• The concepts of current and voltage. Conventional current flow. The basic concept of polarity. The concept of power. Breakdown voltage for an insulator. (2 hrs.)

• The concept of resistance, including the basic definition. The resistance-temperature characteristics for conductors. (3 hrs.)

• Ohm’s Law. Power in a resistor. Power delivered by a source. Conservation of power. Efficiency and losses in a system. (2 hrs.)

• Series circuits including resistors in series, sources in series, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law, and the Voltage Divider Rule. The concept of an equivalent circuit. (2 hrs.)

• Parallel circuits including resistors in parallel, Kirchhoff’s Current Law, and the Current Divider Rule. The effects of open and short circuits on series and parallel circuits. (3 hrs.)

• Problems involving circuits with series-parallel combinations. (2 hrs.)

• Introduction of current sources and source conversions. Branch-current analysis and mesh analysis, general and format approach. (3 hrs.)

• Writing expressions for current between two nodes. Introduction of nodal analysis, general and format analysis. (3hrs.)

• Using various network theorems to help analyze a circuit. (3 hrs.)

• An introduction to magnetism and the magnetic circuit. Comparison with DC circuits. Solution of magnetic circuit problems. (4 hrs.)

• Tests. (5 hrs.) 

Computer usage: The use of a computer language such as BASIC is discussed to set up solutions to certain kinds of problems. The use of a program software such as PSPICE is introduced.  

Laboratory projects: There is a separate lab course for the lecture class.

Oral and written communication requirements: None. 

Calculus usage: None.  

Library usage: None.