ECE 202 - Electrical Circuits I

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 4.3
Approved Hours 3-1S-3/2
Fee index 8
Faculty Engineering
Department Electrical & Computer Engg
Typically Offered first term

Description
Circuit element definitions. Circuit laws: Ohm’s, KVL, KCL. Resistive voltage and current dividers. Basic loop and nodal analysis. Dependent sources. Circuit theorems: linearity, superposition, maximum power transfer, Thevenin, Norton. Time domain behavior of inductance and capacitance, energy storage. Sinusoidal signals, complex numbers, phasor and impedance concepts. Magnetically coupled networks. Single phase power and power factor. Prerequisites: MATH 101, 102. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 202, E E 240, ECE 209 or E E 239, unless approved by the Department.