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COURSE OUTLINE

EET 120: Electrical Circuits II

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

Course Description: Practical concepts of AC circuits: capacitance, inductance, reactance, impedance, phase, and circuit analysis. Circuit calculations utilize vectors and complex quantities.

Prerequisites: SET 112 and EET 110, 201 or PHY 202.

Co-Requisites: EET 120L.

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

Reference(s): None.

Course Coordinator: Joseph M. Farren, Professor.

Goals/Course Objectives: To study and analyze capacitors and inductors in DC settings, both transient and steady state. To study the fundamental aspects of AC circuits and to develop competency in the use of complex algebra for analyzing circuits with resistors, inductors and capacitors. To explore complex power and applications of power factor correction. 

Course topics and lecture hours devoted to each topic: 

  • Concept of capacitance and its characteristics in a DC circuit.

  • Transient analysis of an RC circuit. (5 hrs.)

  • Concept of inductance and its characteristics in a DC circuit.

  • Transient analysis of an RL circuit. (3 hrs.)

  • Sinusoid concepts and definitions. (1 hr.)

  • Complex number application. Phase differences and phasors.

  • Introduction to the phasor domain. (2 hrs.)

  • Concepts of reactance and impedance and the series circuit. (2hrs. )

  • Concepts of admittances and the parallel circuit. (2 hrs.)

  • Analyzing series and parallel combination circuits. (3 hrs.)

  • Loop and nodal analysis methods. (4 hrs.)

  • Circuit Theorems. (4 hrs.)

  • Complex power and power factor correction. (4 hrs.)

  • Tests (5 hrs.)

Computer usage: Introduce PSPICE to solve problems in chapters 16 and 17.  

Laboratory projects: There is a separate lab class, EET 120L. 

Oral and written communication requirements: None. 

Calculus usage: Calculus definitions relating to current and voltage for capacitors and inductors are discussed.  

Library usage: None.