UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE212H1F CIRCUIT ANALYSIS - COURSE SYLLABUS (FALL 2017)

COURSE ECE212 provides students with an understanding of the basic methods that are used for
OBJECTIVES the time and frequency domain analysis of linear electric circuits. The course is the second
of the three-course sequence, ECE110->ECE212->ECE231, designed to provide ECE
students with a foundation for circuit analysis and electronics.

Learning Objectives
1. Master the fundamental techniques of circuit analysis. This includes the use of
Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, superposition, and
Thévenin’s and Norton’s theorems.
2. Know the properties of the fundamental circuit elements. This includes resistors,
capacitors, inductors, and transformers (coupled inductors).
3. Understand the analysis and design of basic electronic circuits using op-amps.
4. Understand how to determine the transient response of first- and second-order
circuits.
5. Understand how to determine the steady-state response of AC circuits using the
concepts of phasors and impedances.
6. Understand how the response of a circuit changes with frequency. This involves
the concepts of transfer functions, Bode plots, poles and zeros, resonant networks,
and filter networks.
7. Understand how to apply the Laplace transform to determine the complete
response of a circuit using s-domain analysis.

INSTRUCTORS Lecture Instructor Office Email

Section
LEC101 Khoman Phang BA5136 khoman.phang@utoronto.ca
LEC102 Zeb Tate SF1021G zeb.tate@utoronto.ca
LEC103 Willy Wong PT484 willy.wong@utoronto.ca

TEXTBOOK Irwin & Nelms, Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis (11th Edition)
AND Available at the UofT Bookstore:
1. eTextbook with WileyPLUS: $80, ISBN#9781119347095
WILEYPLUS 2. Printed loose-leaf (binder-ready) version with WileyPLUS: $139.95,
ISBN#9781119033493

Throughout the term, we will assign homework exercises through the WileyPLUS online
supplement that is integrated into the Blackboard course site.

COURSE Final Exam 50%

MARKS Mid-term (Oct. 30) 20%
Laboratories (5 x 2%) 10%
Quizzes (2 x 5%) 10%
Homework (WileyPlus) 10%
Total 100%

Updated Sept. 6, 2017 1

LABORATORY • The laboratory sessions for ECE212H1F will be run in the Instrumentation Laboratory,
EXPERIMENTS GB341, and will consist of five experiments.
• The instructions for each experiment will be posted on the course website as the term
progresses.
• You will work in groups of two and you will have the opportunity to choose your own
partner in the first lab.
• Each student must keep a bound lab book to document the lab preparation and all work
done in the laboratory.

ONLINE • Roughly each week (except during midterms), a WileyPLUS assignment will be posted
HOMEWORK through Blackboard
• Each assignment will consist of questions that deal with the material covered by the
ASSIGNMENTS week’s lectures and suggested problems. The purpose of these assignments is to
(WILEYPLUS) ensure that you take the time to practice the techniques covered in the course. Circuit
analysis is a skill and practice is the means for acquiring and developing that skill.

TUTORIALS • Tutorials are held weekly starting the week of Sept.11. The purpose of the tutorials is to
AND GROUP allow the students to actively discuss a selection of the assigned problems for that
week with classmates and the teaching assistant.
WORK • Some of the problems discussed will be taken from previous tests or exams. In
general, these past test problems will only be available in the tutorial.

DISCUSSION • We will use the internal discussion forum on Blackboard

FORUM & • Our goal is to encourage discussion amongst students, so don't simply wait for an
answer from your TA or instructor - take part in answering questions. We'll be actively
EMAILS monitoring the discussion and giving feedback.
• Email correspondence should only be used for course administration such as handling
a missed quiz or lab. Emails should be sent to ask212@eecg.utoronto.ca. Please
direct questions related to concepts, homework or lectures to the discussion forum.

COURSE • The course Blackboard website is accessible through the main UofT portal.You should
WEBSITE see the link for the course as:
Fall-2017-ECE212H1-F-LEC0103.LEC0101.LEC0102:CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
(BLACKBOARD) • Announcements, handouts, and schedules will be posted here.

Updated Sept. 6, 2017 2

 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO - FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE212H1F CIRCUIT ANALYSIS - COURSE SYLLABUS (FALL 2017)

COURSE ECE212 provides students with an understanding of the basic methods that are used for
OBJECTIVES the time and frequency domain analysis of linear electric circuits. The course is the second
of the three-course sequence, ECE110->ECE212->ECE231, designed to provide ECE
students with a foundation for circuit analysis and electronics.

Learning Objectives
1. Master the fundamental techniques of circuit analysis. This includes the use of
Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, superposition, and
Thévenin’s and Norton’s theorems.
2. Know the properties of the fundamental circuit elements. This includes resistors,
capacitors, inductors, and transformers (coupled inductors).
3. Understand the analysis and design of basic electronic circuits using op-amps.
4. Understand how to determine the transient response of first- and second-order
circuits.
5. Understand how to determine the steady-state response of AC circuits using the
concepts of phasors and impedances.
6. Understand how the response of a circuit changes with frequency. This involves
the concepts of transfer functions, Bode plots, poles and zeros, resonant networks,
and filter networks.
7. Understand how to apply the Laplace transform to determine the complete
response of a circuit using s-domain analysis.

INSTRUCTORS Lecture Instructor Office Email

Section
LEC101 Khoman Phang BA5136 khoman.phang@utoronto.ca
LEC102 Zeb Tate SF1021G zeb.tate@utoronto.ca
LEC103 Willy Wong PT484 willy.wong@utoronto.ca

TEXTBOOK Irwin & Nelms, Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis (11th Edition)
AND Available at the UofT Bookstore:
1. eTextbook with WileyPLUS: $80, ISBN#9781119347095
WILEYPLUS 2. Printed loose-leaf (binder-ready) version with WileyPLUS: $139.95,
ISBN#9781119033493

Throughout the term, we will assign homework exercises through the WileyPLUS online
supplement that is integrated into the Blackboard course site.

COURSE Final Exam 50%

MARKS Mid-term (Oct. 30) 20%
Laboratories (5 x 2%) 10%
Quizzes (2 x 5%) 10%
Homework (WileyPlus) 10%
Total 100%

Updated Sept. 6, 2017 1

LABORATORY • The laboratory sessions for ECE212H1F will be run in the Instrumentation Laboratory,
EXPERIMENTS GB341, and will consist of five experiments.
• The instructions for each experiment will be posted on the course website as the term
progresses.
• You will work in groups of two and you will have the opportunity to choose your own
partner in the first lab.
• Each student must keep a bound lab book to document the lab preparation and all work
done in the laboratory.

ONLINE • Roughly each week (except during midterms), a WileyPLUS assignment will be posted
HOMEWORK through Blackboard
• Each assignment will consist of questions that deal with the material covered by the
ASSIGNMENTS week’s lectures and suggested problems. The purpose of these assignments is to
(WILEYPLUS) ensure that you take the time to practice the techniques covered in the course. Circuit
analysis is a skill and practice is the means for acquiring and developing that skill.

TUTORIALS • Tutorials are held weekly starting the week of Sept.11. The purpose of the tutorials is to
AND GROUP allow the students to actively discuss a selection of the assigned problems for that
week with classmates and the teaching assistant.
WORK • Some of the problems discussed will be taken from previous tests or exams. In
general, these past test problems will only be available in the tutorial.

DISCUSSION • We will use the internal discussion forum on Blackboard

FORUM & • Our goal is to encourage discussion amongst students, so don't simply wait for an
answer from your TA or instructor - take part in answering questions. We'll be actively
EMAILS monitoring the discussion and giving feedback.
• Email correspondence should only be used for course administration such as handling
a missed quiz or lab. Emails should be sent to ask212@eecg.utoronto.ca. Please
direct questions related to concepts, homework or lectures to the discussion forum.

COURSE • The course Blackboard website is accessible through the main UofT portal.You should
WEBSITE see the link for the course as:
Fall-2017-ECE212H1-F-LEC0103.LEC0101.LEC0102:CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
(BLACKBOARD) • Announcements, handouts, and schedules will be posted here.

Updated Sept. 6, 2017 2

ECE212H1F –COURSE TIMETABLE (To be updated over the semester)
Updated: Sept. 6, 2017

Lecture Tutorials and Lab Textbook

Week Lectures
Number Course Work Experiments Sections

Course introduction
Motivation
Week #0 §1.1 – 1.3
1 No tutorials No Labs
Sept. 7-8
REVIEW: Basic quantities, DC Circuit
§2.1 – 2.7
Analysis

2 REVIEW: Nodal and Loop Analysis

Tutorial #1 §3.1 – 3.2
3 REVIEW: Additional Analysis
Week #1 Lab #1
Techniques
Sept. 11-17 WileyPLUS (PRA01,03,06)
Superposition
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 §5.1 – 5.4
4 Thévenin and Norton Equivalents
Maximum Power Transfer

5
Operational Amplifiers Tutorial #2
Week #2 Lab #1
6 Op-Amp Models WileyPLUS §4.1 – 4.3
Sept. 18-24 (PRA02,04,05)
Basic Op-Amp Circuits Ch 4
7

8 REVIEW: Capacitance and Inductance

Tutorial #3 §6.1 – 6.3
Week #3 Lab #2
9 First-Order Transient Circuits WileyPLUS
Sept. 25-Oct. 1 (PRA01,03,06)
Differential Equations Ch 6, 7 (1st order) §7.1 – 7.2
10 Step-by-Step Approach

11 Tutorial #4
Second-Order Transient Circuits WileyPLUS
Week #4 12 RLC circuits Ch 7 (2nd order) Lab #2 §7.3
Oct. 2-8 Characteristic equation (PRA02,04,05)
Damping, natural frequency Quiz #1
13
(TBA)

14
Week #5 REVIEW: AC Steady-State Analysis
Tutorial #5 Lab #3
Oct. 9-15 Phasors
15 WileyPLUS (No PRA01, §8.1 – 8.8
Impedance and Admittance
Thanksgiving Oct 9
Ch 8 PRA03,06 only)
Circuit analysis using phasors
16

17 Steady-State Power Analysis

Tutorial #6
Instantaneous and Average Power
Week #6 Lab #3
18 Maximum Average Power Transfer §9.1 – 9.6
Oct. 16-22 WileyPLUS (PRA02,04,05)
RMS Values
Ch 9
19 Complex power, power factor correction

Variable-Frequency Network
20
Performance
Variable Frequency-response of
Tutorial #7 §12.1, 12.2
Week #7 components, network functions, Lab #3
21
Oct. 23-29 Sinusoidal Frequency Analysis (PRA01 only)
WileyPLUS
Poles and Zeros
Ch 12
Construction of Bode Plots
22

1
 Lecture Tutorials and Lab Textbook
Week Lectures
Number Course Work Experiments Sections

23
Tutorial #9
Variable-Frequency Network
Week #8 Performance (cont.)
24 Midterm No Labs
Oct. 30 – Nov. 5 Resonant Circuits §12.3, 12.5
Mon. Oct 30
Filter Networks (Passive and Active)
6-8pm
25

26
Laplace Transforms
Tutorial #10
Week #9 Laplace transform pairs Lab #4
27 WileyPLUS §13.1 – 13.4
Nov. 6 – 12 Properties of Laplace transforms (PRA01,03,06)
Ch 13
28

29 Laplace Transforms (cont.)

Performing the Inverse transform
30 Initial- and Final-value Theorems §13.5 - 13.7
Tutorial #11
Week #10 Lab #4
WileyPLUS
Nov. 13 – 19 Laplace Transforms in (PRA02,04,05)
Ch 14
Circuit Analysis §14.1 – 14.2
31
Laplace Circuit Solutions
Circuit Element Models

32 Laplace Transforms in
Tutorial #12
Circuit Analysis (cont.)
Week #11 Lab #5
33 s-domain analysis §14.3 – 14.4
Nov. 20 – 26 Quiz #2 (PRA01,03,06)
Transfer Function
(TBA)
34

35
Magnetically-Coupled Networks Tutorial #13
Week #12 Mutual Inductance Lab #5
36 §10.1 – 10.3
Nov 27 – Dec 3 Energy Analysis WileyPLUS (PRA02,04,05)
The Ideal Transformer Ch 10
37

38
Week #13 Course review
No labs
Dec. 4 – 6
39

* The topics in italics represent material that was covered in ECE110H1S: Electrical Fundamentals. We expect you to have a good
grasp of this material, and will focus on developing your skill in applying these concepts.