CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ELEC 273 Basic Circuit Analysis, Fall 2011 Course Outline

INSTRUCTORS Professor Glenn Cowan, gcowan@ece.concordia.ca Section R: Tuesdays/Thursdays, 10:15-11:30, Room H-535 Office: EV5.237, Telephone: 848-2424 Ext. 4108 Office Hours: Noon to 1pm, Thursdays. TEXTBOOK C. K. Alexander and M. N. O. Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2009. CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
ELEC 273 Basic Circuit Analysis (3.5 credits)

Prerequisite: ENGR 213 previously or concurrently; PHYS 205. Units: current, voltage, power, and energy. Elementary wave-forms. Time averages. Ohms law. KVL and KCL. Ideal sources. Mesh and node analysis of resistive circuits. Network theorems. Inductors and capacitors and their response to the application of elementary waveforms. Transient response of simple circuits. Natural frequency and damping. Initial conditions. Steady state AC analysis: resonance, impedance, power factor. Introduction to three phase power, delta and Y connections. Ideal operational amplifiers. Ideal transformers. Lectures: three hours per week. Tutorial: two hours per week. Laboratory: 15 hours total. NOTE: Students who have received credit for ENGR 273 may not take this course for credit. COURSE OUTLINE The objective of the course is to study and understand the fundamentals of electrical circuits. Chapter Sections Approx. # Topics of lectures 1 1.1-1.6 2 Units, variables,elements, 2 2.1-2.6 2 Kirchoffs Laws, Current and voltage division. Equivalent resistance 3 3.1-3.7 3 Nodal and mesh analysis 4 4.1-4.6, 4.8 3 Circuit theorems: linearity, superposition, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, source transformations 5 5.1-5.8 2 Operational amplifiers and their circuits 6 6.1-6.5 1 Capacitors and inductors 7 7.1-7.6 2 First-order (RC & RL) circuits 8 8.1-8.7 3 Second-order circuits 9 9.1-9.7 2 AC circuits, phasors, impedance 10 10.1-10.6 2 Sinusoidal steady state analysis 11 11.1-11.8 2 AC power analysis

LABORATORY Students will conduct the lab experiments on a two week cycle. Lab sections RJ, and RL will commence the week of September 19, 2011 (Week 2), while sections RI, and RK will commence the week of September 26, 2011. All sections will be held in Room H-822. The lab manual for ELEC 273 is available at the University Bookstore. Make sure you have the September 2011 version. It outlines the experiments and various rules and regulations for the lab. Also available at the bookstore is a special booklet in which lab reports are to be written. You must obtain a grade of 50% or more in the lab to pass the course. You MUST perform all the experiments. If you miss more than one experiment, you will receive R grade. For further details, please contact Mr. B. Suresh (Room H851-02, Phone 848-2424 Ext. 3157). Students repeating the course are required to complete the labs. You must attend the lab section in which you registered.

Students must prepare for each lab by reading the appropriate material given in the lab manual. A written quiz will be given before each lab begins to ensure that the student is prepared for the ensuing experiment. A mandatory lab test will be administered during Nov 29Dec 2. The detailed test schedule will be announced at an appropriate time.
GRADING SCHEME Midterm test (Oct 20th) Laboratory (incl. test) Assignments and Quizzes Final Examination Total 15% 20% 15% 50% 100%

During the tests and the exam, only one of the two ENCS-approved calculators (CASIO FX-300MS and SHARP EL-531) will be allowed. No other material will be allowed inside the exam hall. TUTORIALS Tutorials will start from the week of September 6th, 2011. The following tutorial classes are scheduled: Tutorial RA: Tutorial RB: Tuesdays Mondays 14:30-16:10 14:30-16:10 SGW SGW H-407 H-564

During the term many recommended problems will be suggested. Additional problems will be assigned to be completed and handed in. Teaching Assistants will review the assigned and recommended problems during the tutorials, with priority going to those questions that the students found most difficult. In many tutorials, a short quiz will be given based on the material covered in the recommended and assigned problems from the previous week. TEST SCHEDULES The midterm is tentatively set for October 20th, to be held in class.

TIPS FOR SUCCESS AND A REMINDER OF THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR LEARNING While there will always be exceptions to what is given below, the most successful Engineering undergraduate students do the following: 1. Attend virtually all lectures, and review a classmates notes for any lectures missed. 2. Try to follow along in class, and ask questions when they are confused. 3. Review their notes between lectures, even if they do not need to do an assignment 4. Work out a number of recommended problems at home. 5. Complete all hand-in assignments. 6. Attend tutorials, and ask questions in tutorials. That is, come to tutorials having tried all of the recommended problems. 7. Have a network of classmates with whom to discuss concepts, and assignments. (Discuss does not mean copy!!) 8. Stay current with the material. It can be difficult to get caught up at the very end. 9. Prepare for labs, and complete the labs carefully. 10. View the course as a foundation for future studies and an Engineering career, rather than simply preparation for a final exam. 11. Seek help when they need it, either from the textbook, classmates, TAs, or through the professors office hours. 12. Enjoy the course and take pride in their growing expertise. A NOTE ABOUT EXPECTATIONS OF PROFESSIONALISM In addition to preparing students for the technical requirements of a career in Engineering, we sincerely feel that our program at Concordia University also prepares students for a wide variety of non-technical elements Engineering careers require. An aspect of this non-technical training is the maintaining of clear expectations of professionalism in the classroom, tutorials, and laboratories. We expect that students treat one another, their TAs, lab demonstrators, specialists, and professors with respect and act honestly. It is imperative that students do not talk or make other noise during lectures, when the teaching assistants are presenting material in tutorials, or when lab demonstrators and staff are addressing lab sections. Another important component of professionalism is academic integrity. The copying of labs and assignments is not permitted, and will be dealt with seriously. Please review Concordias guide to academic integrity: http://www.concordia.ca/info/currentstudents/academicintegrity/ NOTES ON PLAGIARISM: The following is taken from http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/plagiarism/
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ELEC 273/2 : BASIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS LABORATORY SCHEDULE , 6th Sept 5th Dec 2011
DATE, LAB SECTION & START TIME ARE SHOWN WITHIN THE BLOCKS
EXPT.# & WHETHER Week(1) or Week(2) IS INDICATED IN THE LEFTMOST COLUMN

LAB LOCATION : H-822

DAY : DATE : Week 2 EXPT # 1 DATE : Week 1 EXPT # 1 DATE : Week 2 EXPT # 2 DATE : Week 1 EXPT # 2 DATE : Week 2 EXPT # 3 DATE : Week 1 EXPT # 3 DATE : Week 2 EXPT # 4 DATE : Week 1 EXPT # 4 DATE : Week 2 EXPT # 5 DATE : Week 1 EXPT # 5 Lab Test Week MONDAY SEPT 19 RJ 1745 SEPT 26 RI 1745 OCT 3 RJ 1745 OCT 10 Thanksgiving HOLIDAY OCT 17 RJ 1745 OCT 24 RI 1745 (Expt #2) OCT 31 RJ 1745 NOV 7 RI 1745 (Expt #3) NOV 14 RJ1745 NOV 21 RI 1745 (Expt #4) NOV 28 RI 1745 (Expt #5) OCT 11 RM 1615 OCT 18 OCT 19 OCT 12 TUESDAY SEPT 20 WEDNESDAY SEPT 21 THURSDAY SEPT 22 RL 1530 SEPT 29 RK 1530 OCT 6 RL 1530 OCT 13 RK 1530 OCT 20 RL 1530 OCT 25 RM 1615 NOV 1 NOV 2 NOV 3 RL 1530 NOV 8 RM 1615 NOV 15 NOV 16 NOV 9 NOV 10 RK 1530 NOV 17 RN 0845 RL 1530 NOV 24 RK 1530 NOV 30 Lab Tests (TBA) DEC 1 Lab Tests (TBA) DEC 2 Lab Tests (TBA) NOV 18 NOV 11 NOV 4 OCT 26 OCT 27 RK 1530 OCT 28 OCT 21 OCT 14 FRIDAY SEPT 23

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Please attend only the lab that you are registered in , according to the schedule given on the front side of this sheet. Students must fully prepare for each lab by reading the appropriate sections of the lab manual well before coming to the lab. A copy of the manual must be in your possession when coming to the lab. All the rules regarding the lab are given in the first few pages of the lab manual and should be followed. The lab manual has been updated for September 2011. Food and drinks are not allowed on the workbench. Disruptive behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated. Any student who is verbally abusive or who misuses the lab equipment, such as writing on equipment, on benches ,etc., is warned that such behaviour can result in expulsion from the lab. Cell phones must be switched off in the lab and students are not allowed to leave the lab to hold cell phone conversations. Students work in groups of two, but must submit individual reports . Reports must be submitted using special booklets labeled Engineering LABORATORY REPORT which are available in the university bookstore. Starting from the first lab, students must answer a Quiz sheet before starting each lab.The Quiz question(s) pertain to the lab to be performed .The lab quiz will be marked and accounts for 10% of the total marks for each lab. Missed labs: Only one lab absence* is permitted. If you miss more than one lab, you are not likely to obtain the average of 50% in the lab, which is required to pass the course. A student who misses a lab must attend another lab within the same experimental cycle to make up for the missed experiment and must email the lab TA and the Lab Coordinator (suresh@ece.concordia.ca) about the substitution without delay. In general, a lab missed due to unavoidable grave circumstance, such as accident or illness, may be disregarded in calculating the average grade provided that an authentic document (police report, doctors or hospital certificate etc ) supporting the reason for the absence is furnished. *Expt#1 is a familiarization experiment and should not be missed. No make up will be given for Expt#1 after its cycle has ended. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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