Montana State University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EE207 -- Circuits II

 Spring 2008


handouts        reading assignments         problem sets          laboratory exercises         lab information  


Class is Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00-10:50 in Roberts 321.

Labs meet on Tuesdays, 12:10-2:00, 2:10-4:00 and 4:10-6:00 in Cobleigh 602.

The professor this term is David Dickensheets, davidd@ee.montana.edu, (406) 994-7874, 530 Cobleigh Hall.

David's Office Hours are  M W 3:00-5:00

The TA this term is Chris Davenport, christophe.davenport@myportal.montana.edu

        Chris's office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 12-1 PM, in 539 Cobleigh Hall

Homework grading will be done by Yujie (Lily) Liang, yujie.liang@myportal.montana.edu

        Lily's office hours are Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM  and 1:00 PM -2:00 PM, in 507 Cobleigh Hall

Announcements

Have a great summer!

EE207 Spring 2008 Final Exam Solution: pg2 pg3 pg4 pg5 pg6 pg7 pg8 pg9 pg10

Handouts

Reading Assignments

To be completed prior to lecture on the indicated dates

Lecture Date Reading Assignment Lecture Topic
1/16 Review Chapter 8

Review: RC and RL circuit complete response, 1st order differential equations and their solutions, single time constant (first order) circuit examples

Review of first order RC and RL circuits. Natural and forced response.
1/18 9.1-9.3

 

Circuits with two energy storage elements (C's or L's): finding the governing differential equation
1/21 Martin Luther King Day Holiday - no class  
1/23 appendices A, B and D

Guest Lecturer: Chris Davenport

Review:   complex numbers in rectangular, polar and exponential form; manipulation of complex numbers; Euler's formulas; simple matrix algebra and Cramer's rule for solving systems of equations

1/25 9.1-9.4 natural response of 2nd order ODE;  natural response of RLC parallel circuit - example of overdamped response
1/28 9.5-9.6 natural response of RLC parallel circuit:  critically damped and underdamped examples
1/30 9.7 example of natural response of series RLC circuit, intro to forced response
2/1 9.7-9.8 forced response of RLC parallel circuit; complete response
2/4 9.9 complete response and state variables
2/6 9.10-9.13

(Lab notebooks due in class)

roots of the characteristic eqn. in the complex plane, more forced circuits
2/8 13.1-13.2 Sinusoidal steady state review, network function
2/11
13.3
network function examples, frequency response concepts
2/13
13.3
more frequency response concepts, intro to Bode plots
2/15 13.3 more Bode plots
2/18 President's Day Holiday - no class  
2/20 13.4 Bode plots, resonant RLC circuits
2/22 Midterm #1 Chapter 9 and Chapter 13 (through 13.3)
2/25 13.4, 16.1-16.4 resonant RLC circuits
2/27 13.4, 16.1-16.4 resonant RLC circuits
2/29 13.6 wrap-up RLC circuits
3/3 Review Chapter 6 Op-amps - finite gain amplifiers
3/5 op-amp handout Op-amp gain-bandwidth-product, slew rate
3/7 op-amp handout Op-amp GBP, slew-rate discussion continues...
Spring Break 3/10-3/14
3/17 op-amp handout More Op-amps- DC offsets- amplifier design problem assignment
3/19 op-amp handout, 16.4  Op-amp wrap-up - design problem discussion, summer, integrator, differentiator, filters
3/21  University Day Holiday - no class  
3/24  14.1-14.4  Intro to Laplace Transforms, definitions, properties, common transform pairs
3/26  14.4-14.5 Moving from time domain to s-domain and back - partial fraction expansion
3/28  14.5-14.7  initial and final value theorems, putting it all together: solving differential equations using Laplace transforms
3/31  14.8  Rapid solution: impedance and initial conditions, first order circuits
4/2  14.8 second and higher order circuits
4/4  14.9-14.10 Zero initial conditions: forced response transfer function, impulse and step response, intro to convolution
4/7  14.10 convolution for the forced response
4/9  14.11 Stability and wrap-up of Laplace transform
4/11  15.1-15.3  Intro to Fourier Series expansion of periodic signals; definitions, examples
4/14  Midterm #2  Op-amps and Laplace Transform
4/16  15.4 - 15.5  Fourier Series symmetry properties,  more examples, exponential form
4/18  15.6 - 15.8 more Fourier series examples, Fourier series presented as a spectrum;Fourier series and circuit transfer function
4/21  15.9  Fourier Transform for continuous-time aperiodic signals; definition and properties
4/23  15.9-15.10  FT pairs, manipulation based on FT properties
4/25 15.11-15.12  Spectra of signals; convolution and impulse response; FT examples
4/28 15.13  More FT examples and properties; FT compared to Laplace transform.
4/30 15.14 Fourier transform wrap-up
5/2    
5/05   Final Exam 4:00 pm Monday May 5, 2007

Problem Sets

set # Due Date Problems Solutions                   
1 1/18 prerequisite assessment  (pdf pages pg1 pg2 pg3 ) pg1 pg2 pg3 pg4 pg5
2 1/18

don't hand in - check your solution against mine

text problems 8.3-1, 8.3-6, 8.7-13; exercise 8.7-1 8.3-1, 8.3-6, 8.7-13 ex8.7-1  
3 1/25 problems 9.2-1, 9.2-2 9.2-1, 9.2-2
 4 1/30 problems 9.3-3, 9.4-2 9.3-3, 9.4-2
 5 2/1 problems 9.5-1, 9.5-5 9.5-1, 9.5-5
 6 2/4 problems 9.6-3, 9.8-1 9.6-3, 9.6-3pg2, 9.8-1,9.8-1pg2
 7 2/6 problems 9.8-3, 9.8-13 9.8-3, 9.8-3pg2, 9.8-13, 9.8-13pg2, 9.8-13pg3
 8 2/8 homework 8 pg1  pg2  pg3 pg4
 9 2/13 problems 13.2-1, 13.2-3, 13.2-4  13.2-1, 13.2-3, 13.2-4
 10 2/15 problems 13.2-7, 13.2-9 13.2-7, 13.2-9
 11 2/20 problems 13.3-3 (magnitude plot only), 13.3-18,  Bode Problem Handout, 13.3-3, 13.3-18, bode problem
 12 2/25  13.3-19 with phase plot 13.3-19
 13 2/27 problems 13.4-1, 13.4-5 13.4-1, 13.4-5
 14 3/5 RLC Filter Design  
 15 3/7 op-amp hw #1 p1 p2 p3 p4 p5
 16 3/19 op-amp hw #2 prob1 prob2a prob2b prob3
 17 3/28 op-amp design (build in lab 3/25)  
 18 3/26 problems 14.2-2, 14.2-4, 14.3-1, 14.3-3 14.2-2, 14.2-4, 14.3-1, 14.3-3
 19 3/31 (read section 14.11 for information about how to use Matlab to check your partial fraction expansions - please still show your work for doing these by hand)

problems 14.4-1, 14.4-3, 14.5-1, 14.5-3

14.4-1, 14.4-3, 14.5-1, 14.5-3
 20 4/2 problems 14.7-3, 14.7-5, 14.7-6 14.7-3, 14.7-5, 14.7-6
 21 4/4 problems 14.7-8, 14.7-9,14.8-2, 14.8-3 14.7-8, 14.7-9,14.8-2, 14.8-3
 22 4/9 problems  14.8-7, 14.9-1, 14.9-4 14.8-7, 14.9-1, 14.9-4
 23 4/16 problems 15.2-1, 15.2-3 15.2-1, 15.2-3
 24  4/18 problems 15.3-1, 15.3-2, 15.3-3 15.3-1, 15.3-2, 15.3-3
 25 4/21 problems 15.5-1, 15.5-3 15.5-1, 15.5-3
 26 4/23  F.S.from DFT pg1 pg2 pg3 numerical  
 27 4/25 circuit response using F.S. 15.8-2pg1 15.8-2pg2
 28 4/28 problems 15.9-3, 15.9-7, cosine pulse 15.9-3, 15.9-7, cosine pulse
  4/30, 5/2 no homework due Fourier Transform Practice pg1 pg2

Laboratory

Lab 1 1/29 RLC complete response: PSpice (Cobleigh 625) lab1&2 (updated 1/29/07)
Lab 2 2/5 RLC complete response: Experimental lab1&2 (updated 1/29/07)
Lab 3 2/12, 2/19 First-order passive filter design lab 3
Lab 4 2/26 RLC Resonant Circuits - PSPICE lab 4
Lab 5 3/4 RLC Resonant Circuits - Experimental lab 5
Lab 6 3/18 Op-amp GPB, Slew Rate and DC offsets lab 6

3/25 Op-amp amplifier design problem (Write up as Design Problem, no lab report)
Lab 7 4/1 Practical Op-amp circuits

(student-directed lab activity)

lab 7
differentiator,
summer, Sallen-Key,
Wien-Bridge
Lab 8 4/8 Laplace Analysis in Matlab lab 8
Lab 9 4/15 Fourier Series 1 lab 9
Lab 10 4/22 Fourier Series 2 lab 10
  4/29 No lab during dead week. Hand in final lab report and notebooks in class Wednesday.

(* asterisk indicates lab activity in which students are building circuits of their own design)

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