The link below will take you to a spreadsheet with suggested reading, videos, and lecture slides for a self-paced course on linear circuit analysis.
The presentation is primarily based on the text Circuit Analysis and Design by Ulaby, Maharbiz and Furse as well as my own original material.
These should be open resources (for viewing). Please report any links that do not work to me.
If you find this material useful or have other comments, please send me a message at fredty@umich.edu and include "EECS215FA20 Recordings" in the subject line. These materials are for personal educational purposes only. Any commerical use would constitute violation of copyright laws. Any university faculty or other educators interested in broader use of my materials are encouraged to contact me.
Fred L. Terry, Jr.
Professor of EECS, University of Michigan
fredty@umich.edu
The next links are from in-person classes in fall 2021 making use of the above recordings in a "flipped" classroom fashion. The most useful thing to do is view the prior recordings and then jump forward in these live recording to the examples. Of course, you can use these as a review as the fall 2021 students did. There were two nominally identical lecture sections. Generally, the section 2 recordings are better but I have included both. The lecture materials link contains the lecture slides plus computer files that may include Matlab, Mathematica, and LTSpice files used in the lecture examples. The major topics from each live lecture are found in the table below.
| Live Class Date | Major topics | 8/30/2021 | Class introduction |
|---|---|
| 9/1/2021 | Power
Passive Sign Convention, Power Conservation |
| 9/8/2021 | Circuit Terminology, KVL/KCL, Series/Parallel Resistors, Source transformations |
| 9/13/2021 | Modified Nodal Analysis (MNA), Solving Linear Equations in Matlab |
| 9/15/2021 | More MNA Examples, Standard Nodal Analysis, Supernodes |
| 9/20/2021 | Diodes, Nodal Analysis Example leading to an equivalent circuit model, Using LTSpice |
| 9/22/2021 | Linearity, Superposition, Thevenin/Norton Equivalents |
| 9/27/2021 | Thevenin/Norton Equivalents, Maximum Power Transfer |
| 9/29/2021 | Transistor Concepts, Bipolar Junction Transistors, MOSFETs |
| 10/4/2021 | Opamp examples, Going from nonideal VCVS model to ideal opamp rules, Opamp Golden Rules |
| 10/6/2021 | Common single stage opamp circuits, Multistage Opamp Analysis, Instrumentation Amplifier |
| 10/11/2021 | Transient Response Concepts, Step Response Function, Capacitor/Inductor Basics, Differential Equations, First Order Circuits (FOC) |
| 10/13/2021 | FOC Examples, Plotting Results in Matlab, LTSpice Transient Simulations |
| 10/20/2021 | Review of time domain SOC math, Solutions of Series RLC Step Response |
| 10/25/2021 | Series RLC Example, Parallel RLC with Examples, General SOC Example, LTSpice Transient Solution of SOC, Comparison in Matlab to exact solution |
| 10/27/2021 | Review of Laplace, Solving General SOC Example of last time with Laplace methods, Residue Method |
| 11/1/2021 | LC Think-Pair-Share Exercise, Complex Poles, Repeated Poles |
| 11/3/2021 | Repeated Poles, Time-varying Forcing Functions, Non-zero initial conditions, Matlab and LTSpice with Examples |
| 11/8/2021 | Laplace vs. AC Steady State, Transfer Functions with Example |
| 11/10/2021 | Phasors with Examples, Getting Complex Impedance with Test Source, Complex Impedance Change with Frequency, Complex Thevenin Equivalent |
| 11/15/2021 | s-Domain vs jω -domain vs Phasors, AC power with examples |
| 11/17/2021 | AC Power Examples, Power Factor Correction, Matching Networks |
| 11/22/2021 | Bode Plots, Complex Poles & Zeros, Passive Filters |
| 11/29/2021 | Bode Plot Examples, Resonance Effect on Frequency Response, Passive Filters |
| 12/1/2021 | Passive Filters, "Cheating" with Resonance, Quality Factor (Q) |
| 12/6/2021 | Q continued, Higher Order Filters, 4th order Bandpass Filter |
| 12/8/2021 | Active Filters |