Date Assigned: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Date Due: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
** PROBLEMS ARE DUE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 **
Exam 1 will be on Monday, September 29
(as listed on the syllabus).
The exam will be closed-book and closed-notes, and will cover the
topics from homework assignments 1 through 4 and labs 1 and 2
(not PSpice).
Please bring your calculator to the exam.
The specific topics include the following.
Basic quantities: voltage, charge, current, energy, power,
passive sign convention for power (p = v i).
Ideal voltage and current sources (independent and dependent,
"valid" connections).
Using Kirchhoff's current law (KCL) and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL)
to analyze circuits.
Resistors: Ohm's law (with sign convention),
equivalent resistors (series, parallel,
delta-wye), voltage dividers, current dividers, bridge circuits.
Thevenin equivalent circuit models (as in
Lab 2 and
Homework 4).
Node-voltage method: simple cases like
Homework 4
and
Homework 5
(problems 4.10, 4.12, 4.14, 4.22), but
no dependent sources or supernodes as in the other prolems on
Homework 5.
You will need to solve simultaneous linear equations.
We will have
Lab 3
on Thursday, October 2.
Please complete the analysis and PSpice activities
before your lab session on October 2.
(You may want to work on this as you study for the exam!)
Reading:
In the Nilsson/Riedel text, please
continue to study Chapter 4, Sections 4.1-4.4
(node-voltage method), 4.5-4.8 (mesh-current method), and
Sections 4.9-4.11 (Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits).
We will study the mesh-current method after the exam,
beginning on October 1.
Please solve the following problems, and submit solutions
on
Monday, October 6.
Chapter 4: Problems 10, 12, 14, 18(a), 22,
27, and 28.
Delete Problem 4.10 since it was
part of
Homework 4.