McMaster University Electrical and Computer Engineering

ENG 3N03 - Detailed Course Outline with Lecture Notes

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Date	Lecture	Description	Chapter
Jan 5^th	0	Organizational Meeting
Jan 7^th	1	Basic Concepts: conductors, insulators, and semiconductors, charges and electric field, voltage difference
Jan 8^th	2	Circuit Theory 1: Kirchhoff’s voltage law, examples Electric current, Kirchhoff’s current law, electric power, Ohm’s law
Jan 12th	3	Circuit Theory 2: Thevenin Theorem, Norton Theorem, Capacitors and their response, inductors and their responses, transient analysis, examples on transient analysis
Jan 14th	4	Circuit Theory 3: Phasors, impedances and admittances, phasor diagrams
Jan 15th	5	Circuit Theory 4: combination of elements, filters
Jan 19^th	6	Semiconductors: Valence bonds, conduction band and valence band, doping, N-type and P-type materials, examples	Chapter 1, pages 1-16 Extra: Green Tech. Application 1
Jan 21st	7	PN Diode 1: Structure, Depletion region, different bias conditions, IV characteristics, example	Chapter 1: pages 16-19, Chapter 2: pages 31-43
Jan 22^nd	8	PN Diode 2: Diode model, half-wave rectifier, full-wave rectifier, bridge rectifier, examples	Chapter 2: pages 44-57, pages 64-70 Extra: Sections 2-6 and 2-8, DC Power Supply Application Activity
Jan 26^th	9	PN Diode 3: Avalanche breakdown, Zener breakdown, examples	Chapter 3: Sections 3.1 and 3.2 Extra: 3.4
Jan 28^th	10	Operational Amplifiers (OpAmp) 1: ideal operational amplifier, realistic operational amplifier, parameters of an OpAmp, Applications of OpAmps	Chapter 12: Sections 12.1 and 12.2
Jan 29^th	11	Operational Amplifier 2: Inverting amplifier, non inverting amplifier, differential amplifier, examples	Chapter 12: Sections 12.3 and 12.4
Feb 2^nd	12	Operational Amplifier 3: Voltage follower, general OpAmp circuits	Chapter 13: Pages 668-683 (not including Page 676)
Feb 4^th	13	OpAmp 4: ideal integrator, ideal differentiator, examples	Chapter 13: Pages 683-693 Extra: Waveform Generation Application
Feb 5^th	14	OpAmp 5: Extra Applications	No pdf is posted for this lecture
Feb 9^th	15	Field Effect Transistors (FETs) 1: JFET structure, JFET operation	Chapter 8: Sections 8.1-8.4
Feb 11^th	16	FETs 2: MOSFET structure, Characteristics and parameters, Biasing of MOSFET, examples	Chapter 8: Section 8.5-8.7 Extra: Section 8.8 IGBT, Application ph sensor activity
Feb 12^th	17	FETs 3: JFET Common Source Amplifier, MOSFET Common Source Amplifier, Examples	Chapter 9: Section 9.1
February 16^th-February 21^st, Reading Week
Monday February 23rd, at 6:30 pm, First Midterm
March 2^nd	18	FETS 4: Common Drain Amplifiers, Common Gate Amplifiers, Examples	Chapter 9: Sections 9.2-9.3 Extra: Section 9.4
March 4^th	19	Digital Circuits 1: Analog and digital signals, differences between analog and digital circuit, logic levels
March 5^th	20	Digital Circuits 2: Axioms of Boolean Algebra, AND gate, OR gate, De Morgan’s theorems, examples
March 9^th	21	Digital Circuit 3: Logic Simplification, Kranaugh Maps
March 11^th	22	Digital Circuit 4: Arithmetic circuits, Half Adder, Full Adder, Half Subtractor, Full Subtractor
March 12^th	23	Digital Circuit 5: Sequential Circuits, RS Flip-Flop, JK Flip-Flop, Toggle Flip-Flop, Applications
March 16^th	24	Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) 1: Transistor structure, I-V characteristics	Chapter 4: Sections 4.1-4.2
March 18^th	25	BJT2: Modes of operation, voltage and current analysis, examples	Chapter 4: Section 4.3
March 19^th	26	BJT3: Transistor as a switch, transistor as an amplifier	Chapters 4 and 5: Sections 4.4-4.5, 5.1-5.3 Extra: Sections 4.6-4.7, Alarm System Applications
Wednesday March 25^th, at 6:30 pm, Second Midterm
March 23^rd	27	BJT4: small signal analysis, common emitter amplifier, examples	Chapter 6: Sections 6.1-6.3
March 25^th	28	BJT5: common collector amplifiers, example	Chapter 6: Sections 6.4 Extra: Sections 6.5-6.6
March 26th	29	Oscillators: Colpitts Oscillator, Hartley Oscillator, Armstrong Oscillator, Examples	Chapter 16: Sections 16.1-16.4 Extra: Section 16.5
March 30^th	30	MultiStage Amplifiers: effect of loading, overall gain using equivalent models, overall gain using effective loads, Examples	Chapter 6: Section 6.6

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