To provide basic training across the various common specialities in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the field ofelectrical/ electronic circuits in steady or near steady state regime.
At the end of the semester, students must have acquired sufficient skills to, facing a linear circuit, a network, a circuit with diodesand/or operational amplifiers, be able to analyse and understand their operation in time and frequency domains, and have the abilityto obtain the electric voltages and currents necessary to characterize the circuit.
1) Complex numbers:
2) Fundamental Concepts: electrical quantities, components, signal conventions, voltage and current generators, energy conservation, linearity and overlapping.
3) Analysis of Resistive Circuits in Steady State: Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current dividers, duality, Thevenin and Norton theorems. Network Analysis: notions of topology, reduction of the number of network equations, node and mesh methods.
4) Dynamic Regime of Linear Circuits: state variables, response of first order circuits to step and pulse stimuli.
5) Circuit Analysis in the Frequency Domain: sinusoidal quantities, complex amplitudes, impedance and admittance, passive filters.
6) Linear two-ports. Miller's theorem.
7) Circuits with Op-Amps: Op-Amp models, non-linear characteristic, inverter and non-inverter amplifiers, Op-Amps applications.
8) Circuits with Diodes: non-linear V-I characteristic, diode models, diode applications.
50% continuous evaluation / 50% non-continuous evaluation
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, J. David Irwin and R. Mark Nelms, Wiley
Análise de Circuitos, J. A. Brandão Faria, IST Press
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