EGR 201 Electrical Fundamentals 1

1. Apply the fundamentals of electrical safety to laboratory situations. 
2. Define voltage, current, power, and energy. 
3. Use Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Laws to perform circuit analysis. 
4. Identify ideal voltage and current sources. 
5. Solve fundamental series and parallel resistive circuits. 
6. Apply circuit analysis techniques to resistive circuits that have dependent sources, calculate source transformation, and maximum power transfer. 
7. Explain Thevenin and Norton equivalents. 
8. Apply circuit analysis techniques to operational amplifier circuits. 
9. Define energy storage elements. 
10. Define, using integration and differential equations, current and voltage relationships for capacitors and inductors. Solve for natural response of circuits. 
11. Analyze passive circuit elements in the phasor domain. 
12. Use basic electrical instruments and analytical techniques to gather empirical data. 
13. Represent lab data in a formal and summary reports. 

• Basic Definitions 
  • Voltage and current relationship 
  • Energy and power 
  • Basic laws 
• Techniques of Circuit Analysis 
  • Node - voltage method 
  • Mesh - current method 
  • Source transformations 
  • Thevenin equivalents 
  • Norton equivalents 
  • Maximum power transfer 
  • Superior position 
  • Delta-To-Wye simplifications 
• Energy Store Elements 
  • The inductor 
  • The capacitor 
• Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis 
  • Sinusoidal source 
  • Sinusoidal response 
  • The phasor 
• The Operational Amplifier 
  • Operational-amplifier terminals 
  • Terminal voltages and currents 
  • The inverting and non-inverting operational amplifier circuits 
  • Integrator and differentiator circuits 
• Natural and Step Responses of Circuits 
  • RL circuits 
  • RC circuits 
• Electrical Safety