Circuit Theory Lecture 1
Circuit Theory Lecture 1
The Instructors:
Dr. Görkem SERBES (C317)
[email protected]
https://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/gserbes/
Lab Assistants:
Nihat AKKAN
[email protected]
https://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/nakkan
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Course Details
• Course Code : BME2301
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Assesment for First-Time Takers
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Course Outline
1. Introduction.
Lumped circuit elements, Levels of abstraction, What are the circuits?, Course
objectives.
2. Basic Concepts.
Units, Charge, Current, Voltage, Power, Conservation of Energy, Circuit Elements,
Networks vs. Circuits, Ohm’s Law, .
3. Voltage and Current Laws.
Circuit Terminology, Kirchhoff’s Current Law, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law, The Single-
Loop Circuit, Conservation of Energy, The Single-Node-Pair Circuit, Series Circuits,
Parallel Circuits, Voltage Division, Current Division.
4. Nodal and Mesh Analysis.
Nodal (or “Node-Voltage”) Analysis, Nodal Analysis with Supernodes, Mesh
(Current) Analysis, Mesh Analysis with Supermeshes, Equivalent Practical Sources.
5. Linearity & Superposition.
Linearity, Superposition, Superposition: Voltage Sources, Superposition: Current
Sources, Practical Voltage Sources, Practical Current Sources.
6. Thevenin & Norton Equivalents.
Thevenin Equivalent, Power from a Practical Source, Maximum Power Transfer .
7. The Operational Amplifier.
The Operational Amplifier, Inverting Amplifier, Noninverting Amplifier, Voltage
Follower, Summing Amplifier, Difference Amplifier, Op-Amp Cascades, Op-Amp
Parameters, Common Mode Rejection, Saturation, An instrumentation amplifier.
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Course Outline
8. Capacitors and Inductors.
Capacitance, Capacitor Current & Voltage, Capacitor Characteristics, Inductance,
Inductor Current & Voltage, Inductor Characteristics, Inductor Energy Storage, DC
Capacitor Circuits, DC Inductor Circuits.
9. Basic RL and RC Circuits.
The Source-Free RL Circuit, The Source-Free RC Circuit, Unit-Step Definition, Driven
RL Circuit, Driven RC Circuit.
10. RLC Circuits.
Parallel RLC Circuit, Series RLC Circuit, RLC Solution: Over-damped, RLC Solution:
Critically Damped, RLC Solution: Under-damped, The Complete Response Of The
RLC Circuit.
11. AC Analysis.
Complex numbers, phasors, impedance, admittance, Sinusoidal steady-state;
Ohm’s Law, KVL, KCL for AC circuits, Sinusoidal steady-state: Thevenin,
superposition, examples.
12. The Frequency Response.
Frequency response: transfer function, logarithms, Bode plots.
Frequency response: resonance, passive & active filter design
13. Laplace Transform.
Laplace: introduction to transforms, inverse transform.
Laplace: theorems, solving differential equations
14. s-Domain analysis
s-Domain analysis: transfer functions, poles, zeroes.
s-Domain analysis: nodal, mesh, additional techniques 7
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