Electrical Engineering 2CJ4
Circuits and Systems

Objective:

At the end of this course, students will be able to solve electric circuits involving both passive and active elements for voltages at nodes, and branch or loop currents. They will be able to solve linear transient circuit problems involving second-order systems using either time-domain or Laplace transform techniques, and will be able to analyze and sketch the frequency response of a circuit. In addition, students will have developed efficient tools for analyzing two-port networks and three-phase circuits, and will have been introduced to magnetic circuits.

Instructors:

• Section C01
  • Yaser Haddara
    CRL 228, Ext. 24968
    yaser@mcmaster.ca
    

• Section C02
  • Tim Davidson
    ITB A310, Ext. 27352
    davidson@mcmaster.ca
    

All email communication should contain the sequence "EE2CJ4" in the subject line

Web Site:

http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~davidson/EE2CJ4

Schedule:

Lectures

• Section C01
  • Tuesday, 9:30, TSH/B105
  • Wednesday, 9:30, TSH/B105
  • Friday, 9:30, TSH/B105
• Section C02
  • Tuesday, 9:30, PC/155
  • Wednesday, 9:30, PC/155
  • Friday, 9:30, PC/155

Tutorials

• Section T01: Wednesday, 14:30-16:20, T13/123
• Section T02: Wednesday, 16:30-18:20, ABB/270
• Section T03: Thursday, 14:30-16:20, T13/105
• Section T04: Thursday, 16:30-18:20, T13/105

Assumed knowledge:

Analysis techniques for lumped linear circuits from EE2CI5:

• Dissipative sign convention;
• Ohm's law; Kirchhoff's laws;
• Node and Mesh analysis;
• Superposition; Thevenin and Norton equivalents;
• Capacitance and Inductance;
• Transient analysis of first and second order circuits;
• AC steady state analysis (Phasor techniques);
• Steady-state power analysis.

This material is covered in Irwin and Nelms, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Detailed course content:

• Brief review of assumed knowledge
• Operational Amplifiers (Chapter 4)
• Frequency response (Chapter 12)
• Laplace Transform analysis of linear circuits (Chapters 13 and 14)
• Two-port networks (Chapter 16)
• Magnetic circuits
• Magnetically coupled networks (Chapter 10)
• Three phase circuits (Chapter 11)

Assessment:

• Tutorial participation: 5%
• Mid-term tests (2 @ 17.5%): 35%
• Final examination: 60%

Percentages will be converted to letter grades using the Registrar's recommended procedure.
Statistical adjustments (such as "bell curving") will not normally be used.

Policy on requests for remarking of mid-term tests:

A request for remarking of a mid-term test can me made using the form provided on the course web site. Mid-term tests written in pencil will not be remarked. Neither will test booklets with missing pages.

Policy on deferred tests and examinations:

When a test or examination is formally deferred (by providing the required documentation to the Associate Dean's office and obtaining written authorization), the instructors reserve the right to conduct that test or examination orally.

Calculator

Use of the McMaster Standard Calculator (Casio fx991) is allowed, but no other calculators will be allowed.

Textbook:

• Irwin and Nelms, Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, eighth edition, Wiley, 2004. (Your text from EE2CI5.)
• Additional resources are posted on the course web site.

Policy Reminders:

• The Faculty of Engineering is concerned with ensuring an environment that is free of all adverse discrimination. If there is a problem, that cannot be resolved by discussion among the persons concerned, individuals are reminded that they should contact the Department Chair, the Sexual Harassment Officer or the Human Rights Consultant, as soon as possible.

• Students are reminded that they should read and comply with the Statement on Academic Ethics and the Senate Resolutions on Academic Dishonesty as found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office.

• Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.
  It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifically Appendix 3, located at http://www.mcmaster.ca/senate/academic/ac_integrity.htm.
  The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:
  • Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which other credit has been obtained.
  • Improper collaboration in group work.
  • Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.

• Please note that announcements concerning any type of graded material may be in any format (e.g. announcements may be made only in class). Students are responsible for completing the graded material regardless of whether they received the announcement or not.

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