Students finishing this course will understand fundamental circuit analysis techniques, including sinusoidal steady-state methods. Students will be prepared to take ELEC 226 in the next semester, which will include time-domain circuit analysis, Laplace transform methods, and frequency analysis of circuits and signals using Fourier series and transforms.
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Richard J. Kozick Office: Room 067 Breakiron Phone: (570) 577-1129 Email: kozick@bucknell.edu http://www.linux.bucknell.edu/~kozick |
Other times can be arranged - talk to me in class, send email, or call.Monday 2-3 PM Tuesday 10 AM - 11 AM & 1-2 PM (unless noted) Thursday 11 AM - 12 PM Friday 9-10 AM
The library has many books on circuit analysis. We encourage you to read a variety of books in order to see different explanations and additional examples.
This supplement to the main textbook includes a CD with OrCAD Release 10.5 PSpice software. We will use PSpice in this course for homework and for labs. You will also use PSpice in future courses.
The course home page contains homework assignments and solutions, syllabus, links to laboratory assignments, and other course information.
Two in-class exams (15% each) 30% Short quizzes and class participation 10% Final exam 20% Homework 15% Laboratories 25%
Friday, Sept. 25 (in place of class on Monday, Sept. 28)The course will conclude with a comprehensive final exam.
Friday, Nov. 13 (in place of class onMonday, Nov. 16Wednesday, Oct. 21)
Short quizzes (announced or unannounced) will also be given to check your understanding of the material as we proceed through the course. Missed quizzes cannot be made-up, but your lowest quiz grade will be dropped. We will also do in-class exercises (individually and in groups) that will be counted toward the "Short quizzes and class participation" grade component.
You are allowed and encouraged to work on the homework with groups of your classmates. The purpose of the homework is to practice with the material and to improve your understanding. We encourage you to learn from each other, and also to ask us when you have questions. However, the homework solutions that you submit for grading must be written individually. Be sure that you understand the reasoning for each problem, even if you initially solved the problem with help from your classmates.
September 3 and 17: All students attend in Dana 305Students will work in pairs on the labs for this course. Some of the lab exercises will serve as illustrations of the course material, while others may be design projects in which you choose the topic. For some labs, each group will be asked to write a lab report and/or present your project to the class (one report per lab group).
The schedule for the remaining five lab meetings will be announced later.
Attendance at all laboratory sessions is expected and required. If you have a legitimate reason for missing lab, please see Prof. Kozick as soon as possible to make arrangements for making up the lab session. Please attend during your assigned lab time (if applicable).
Each student should keep a lab notebook for this course, but we will not collect your notebooks for grading. The lab notebook will serve two purposes. First, it is a good way to organize the notes and data that you'll need to prepare the lab report. Second, it provides a good reference for future labs that you can use to remember how to perform certain operations with the instruments.
The lab report requirements will be specified for each lab exercise. The reports will range from a brief summary of your activities to a more comprehensive documentation of your analysis, design, and measurement results.