1. Reading: In the Nilsson/Riedel text, please study Chapter 6 on capacitors and inductors.

   For the week of November 16, please study Chapter 9 on sinusoids, phasors, impedance, and circuit analysis. Begin with Sections 9.1-9.6, but eventually we will study the entire chapter. Also, review Appendix B on complex numbers.

   Chapter 9 provides a nice review of everything we've done so far in this course. We will be applying all of the circuit analysis methods to find the sinusoidal steady-state response, or how circuits behave when the voltages and currents change with time as a sine wave. The new twist is that voltages and currents will be complex-valued phasors, while resistors, capacitors, and inductors will be modeled by complex-valued impedances.

2. We will perform Lab 6 on November 12 and 19, beginning at 8:10 AM. The class will be divided into the same two groups as for Lab 5.

3. Please solve the following problems in Chapters 6 and 9 and submit solutions on November 18:

   Chapter 6: 26 and 39.
   Chapter 9: 1 and 2.

   Notes:
   • In Problem 6.39, the term "dc voltmeter kicks upscale" means that a positive value of voltage is measured (so the voltage is larger at the + side compared with the - side).
   • For Problem 9.1 (c) and (d), the answers in the back of the book should have units mV (not V).

4. Exam 2 will be on Friday, November 13. The exam will be closed-book and closed-notes, and will emphasize the topics from homework assignments 5 through 9 (Chapters 4 and 5) and labs 3, 4, and 5. The exam will include a take-home question that will be due on Monday, November 16 at 9:00 AM.

   The specific topics include the following:

   • Circuit analysis with the node-voltage and mesh-current methods. You will need to solve simultaneous linear equations.
   • Source transformations
   • Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits
   • Power delivered to a load and maximum power transfer
   • Superposition
   • Operational amplifier circuits
     • Useful circuits, such as buffer (or voltage follower, isolation amplifier), inverting amp., noninverting amp., summing amp., difference amp.
     • Ideal model for op amp in circuits with negative feedback
     • Conditions for saturation of the op amp
     • More realistic model for op amp with finite gain, finite input resistance, and nonzero output resistance

Thank you.