Linear Circuit Analysis: Course outline

• Electric quantities
• Electric signals
• Electric circuits
• Kirchoff's laws

Circuit elements:

• Resistance
• Series parallel combination
• Voltage and current dividers
• Resistive bridges and ladders
• Practical sources and loading

Instrumentation and measurement.

• Nodal analysis
• Loop analysis
• Linearity and superposition
• Source transformation
• One ports
• Circuit theorems

Power calculations.

• Dependent sources
• Circuit analysis with dependent sources
• Ideal transformer
• Amplifiers.
• The operational amplifier
• Basic op-amp configurations
• Ideal op-amp circuit analysis
• Summing and difference amplifiers

Amplifier types.

• Capacitance
• Inductance
• Natural response of RC and RL circuits

Response to DC forcing function.

• Transient response of first order circuits
• Step
• Pulse and pulse train responses

First order op-amp circuits.

• Transient response and step response of second order circuits.

AC fundamentals.

• RMS or effective
• Average and maximum values of current & voltage for sinusoidal signal wave forms