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EE 233 Spring 2010

Circuit Theory

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Instructor: Scott Dunham
Office: EE1 218
Office Hours: Fridays 2:00-3:00pm, Mondays 9-10am
Location for office hours: EEB 218
e-mail: dunham@ee.washington.edu
Phone: 206-543-2189

Class Meeting Times and Location:
Lecture meeting MWF, 3:30-4:20pm, EEB 125 

Teaching Assistants:

Mr. Xin Chang (changx@u.washington.edu)
Office hours: by appointment

Mr. Kwang Soon Park (gomgom75@u.washington.edu)
Office hours: by appointment

Grader: Kevin Roberts (ghumba@u.washington.edu)

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Handouts

  1. Here are slides from introductory lecture which I went through quickly in Monday's lecture.
  2. Lecture 2 Notes: Op Amps and Sinusoidal Steady State.
  3. Lecture 5 Notes: Thevenin/Norton in Phasor Domain.
  4. Lecture 10 Notes: Steps, Impulses and Laplace Transforms.
  5. Lecture 16 Notes: Convolution.
  6. Bode Plot Lecture Notes.
  7. Filter Design Lecture Notes.
  8. Cascade of Sallen-Key Filter Blocks.

Announcements

  1. Here is an example Gnuplot Bode Plot Input File. Gnuplot should exist on all Linux systems. To use, just type "gnuplot BP2.gnu" and the program will first give onscreen plots (press Return to continue) and then save the magnitude and angle plots to BP_mag.jpg and BP_ang.jpg. You will of course have to change the function to the one you want to plot. For help on gnuplot type "gnuplot" at Linux prompt and then type "help" or look for online tutorial.
  2. Review session for the course (and Final Exam) will be held in EE 303 at 5pm on Monday June 7.
  3. The Final Exam will be held in same room as lectures on Thursday June 10 2:30-4:20pm. The final exam is closed book, but with three sheets of notes. Calculators are OK. Here is a Previous Final Exam to give you an idea what to expect. Note that we did not get to two-port networks this quarter, so I would not ask a problem like #6 (although I would likely bring in power another way as in 6(b)). Here are the Solutions.
  4. The average on the Second Exam was 65.4, the median was 69 and the standard deviation was 16.4. Here are the Exam 2 Solutions. Note that for 2(b) and 3(c) I included 2 alternate approaches.
  5. Here are some additional Exam 2 practice problems and solutions.
  6. Here is link to online convolution applet shown in class. There are many more which can be found via web search.
  7. The average on the First Exam was 31, the median was 33 and the standard deviation was 9.5. Here are the Exam 1 Solutions.
  8. As requested by the Dean, there will be no class on Monday, May 3 so that you can attend the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges meeting. However, there will be lecture this Friday, April 23.
  9. I will hold Review Session for first exam on Tuesday, April 20 starting at 5:00pm in EE303.
  10. The first exam will be in class on Wednesday April 21. The exam is closed book, but with a sheet of notes. Calculators are OK. Here is a Previous Midterm Exam (with circuit for problem 2 now included) to give you an idea what to expect. Note that this was a midterm and covered Chapters 9, 10 and 12, so only the first two problems are relevant to the first exam this year. Here are the Solutions to Previous Midterm Exam plus 3rd problem solution in preparation for 2nd Exam.
  11. The HKN Electrical Engineering Study Center will offer quality tutoring and low-pressure help focusing on EE215, 233, and 235 M-F 11-1 in the EE1 2nd floor atrium (outside EE room 226) starting April 19.
  12. The text for the course is "Electric Circuits, Eighth Edition," by J. W. Nilsson and S. A. Riedel, Prentice Hall, 2008. If you choose to use an earlier version of text, you should be sure to check the 8th edition to ensure you are doing the correct problems. There may also be errors in earlier editions that are corrected in the 8th edition.
  13. College of Engineering Academic Misconduct Policy will be strictly enforced.
    • Homeworks: students are welcome to discuss homework with others, but each student must submit individual homework solution to be graded weekly.
    • Laboratory work and reports: students work on laboratory experiments in teams and also submit lab reports as teams. No individual laboratory report is required. The same score for each lab report is given to all students in each team.
    • Exams (midterm, final, and laboratory exam): absolutely no cooperation or discussion is permitted. Each student works on an exam individually.
  14. Grading Policy Information as given on the first day of class is posted.
  15. Labs and discussion sections will meet the first week. Lab will be introduction to equipment and procedures, as well as setting up teams. Discussion will review material from EE215.
  16. For the lab, each group needs to purchase at least 2 scope probes, 1 set of function generator leads, one lab kit and one breadboard.

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 Last Updated:
3/29/2010

Contact the instructor at: dunham@ee.washington.edu