Syllabus

ENGR-202 Circuits II

Spring 2003

 

Course Information

ENGR-202 Circuits II,  Spring 2003 (CRN: 2325)

MWF 9:00 to 9:50  GH206                    Lab:  ARR GH5

 

General Information

Textbook: Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, 7th Ed., by J. David Irwin

Supplies: engineering calculator (TI-85, TI-86 or equivalent)

                 

 

Instructor

William E. Pierson                                             Email:  pierson@marshall.edu

Office:       Room 3 Gullickson Hall                    Office Hours:  10:00 to 12:00 MTWRF

Phone:  696-2695                                                           (or by appointment)

Fax:  696-5454                                                   

                                                                 

Course Objectives

The main objectives of the course are to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the following concepts:

·        transient response of  first- and second-order circuits

·        single-phase and three-phase ac power, including complex power, power factor and power factor correction

·        magnetically-coupled circuits and ideal transformers

·        frequency response, including resonant circuits and basic filter circuits

·        basic concepts of Laplace transforms as applied to circuit analysis

·        two-port networks (if time permits)

 

Course Prerequisites:  ENGR-201, Circuits I and MTH 230, Calculus II

 

Computer Usage, Homework and Lab

A significant number of homework problems will be assigned and graded.  HW assignments, along with answers and solutions to selected problems, will be posted to the course web site maintained under WebCT.  Several laboratory exercises and reports will be assigned during the semester.  Homework and lab assignments will be averaged together.  In addition to conventional lab exercises, Multisim, a computer-aided analysis and design software system, will be used to simulate circuit behavior and to demonstrate the concepts listed above.

 

Grading

            Hourly Exams:                                               4 @ 100 points each = 400 points

            Homework  and Lab Average:                    100 points

                                    Total Points:                           500

           

Points                          Letter Grade

            450 – 500                              A

            400 – 449                              B

            350 – 399                              C

            300 – 349                              D

              0 – 299                                 F

 

 

C.        Course Schedule (Tentative, subject to revision)

Week

Topic

Text Reading

1

Review; First-order Transient Circuits

6.1 – 6.4

 

Time constants, initial and final values, exponential functions

 

2

Pulse response of a first-order circuit.

 

3

Second-order Transient Circuits, Overdamped, underdamped, and critically damped responses; Transient analysis using Multisim

 

4

Wrap Up and Review for Exam #1

 

 

Exam #1

 

5

Review of steady-state ac power concepts

9.1 – 9.9

 

Average power, complex power, power factor, and power factor correction,

 

6

Polyphase circuits - Three-phase circuits and connections

10.1 – 10.5

7

Three-phase power and power factor correction

 

8

Magnetically-Coupled Circuits, mutual inductance, the ideal transformer; Wrap Up and Review for Exam #2

8.1 – 8.4

 
Exam #2

 

9

Frequency response

11.1 – 11.5

 

Sinusoidal frequency analysis, transfer functions

 

10

Bode plots, Resonant circuits, scaling; filter networks

 

11

Wrap up and review for Exam #3

 

 

Exam #3

 

12

The Laplace Transform: definition, transform pairs, properties, convolution and the initial- and final-value theorems

12.1 – 12.7

13

Applications of the Laplace transform to circuit analysis

13.1-13.6

14

Two-port Networks

15.1 - 15.6

15

Wrap up and review for Exam #4

 

 
Exam #4 (Final Exam Period)

 

 

 

D.  Course Policies

1.      Students are strongly encouraged to attend and participate in all class meetings.  However, there are no official penalties for class absences.

2.      Students are responsible for checking their Marshall email accounts and the WebCT web site for the course on a regular basis in order to keep up with class announcements and other course-related information.  If a student uses an account other than the MU-assigned email account, then the MU account should be set up to automatically forward email.  (See the MU site: http://web.marshall.edu/computing/emaildelivery/ for instructions on how to forward email.) 

3.      Except for extraordinary circumstances (i.e., authorized medical problems) students are required to take exams at the scheduled times and dates.

4.      Homework will be assigned regularly and must be submitted by the due date.   Assignments submitted after the due date will be worth, at most, 50% of the point value of the assignment.  Homework assignments are due at the beginning of the class period, and assignments turned in after the start of class may be counted as being late.

5.      HW assignments should be done on 8.5 x 11” paper in a neat manner that is easy to read, showing all steps and calculations to each problem.  Answers should be clearly marked and easy to find.  The name(s) of the student(s) and the number of the problem should be shown at the top of each sheet.  Answers must include units (i.e., W, V, Hz), and appropriate engineering notation must be used (i.e., kVA, mA, mF).  Sufficient detail must be provided to describe the process used in obtaining the final answer.

6.      Students are encouraged to work together on HW assignments.  However, each student is individually accountable for understanding all material and HW problems. 

7.      Cheating will not be tolerated on exams.  Any student caught cheating on an exam will receive a zero on that exam.