HANDOUTS FOR ECE 109 - LINEAR RESISTOR CIRCUITS
ALAN FELZER - ECE DEPT - CAL POLY POMONA - FALL 2006

ECE 109 together with its lab 109L is a one quarter class on the analysis of linear resistor circuits that covers the basics of current, voltage, reference directions, power, energy, Ohm's Law, equivalent resistance, node equations, transfer functions, superposition, Thevenin's Theorem and time-varying inputs. You will need the plug-in Acrobat Reader to view most of the material listed below. If your browser does not already have Acrobat Reader then you can obtain it for free from Adobe.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ECE 109

• Problems You Should Be Able To Do Before You Take ECE 109
• Problems You Should Be Able To Do After You Take ECE 109
• Checklist
• ECE 109 Sample Solution Writeups
• ECE 109 Take Home Midterm - Fall 1998 / ECE 109 Take Home Final - Fall 1997
• Computer Demos
• Notes on Mathcad

INVESTIGATIONS FOR ECE 109

• THE VERY BASICS
  1. Conventional Current
  2. Voltage Drops
  3. Linear Resistors
  4. Voltage And Current Sources
  5. One Resistor Circuits
  6. Power And Energy
  
  
• KIRCHHOFF'S LAWS
  7. Kirchhoff's Current Law
  8. Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
  
  
• SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS
  9. Parallel Circuits
  10. Series Circuits
  11. Equivalent Resistance
  12. Voltage and Current Gains
  13. Voltage And Current Division
  
  
• NODE ANALYSIS
  14. Node Voltages
  15. Node Equations - A Guided Tour
  16. Practice With Node Equations
  
  
• EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS
  17. Equivalent Resistance
  18. Thevenin's Theorem - Part I
  19. Thevenin's Theorem - Part II
  20. Thevenin's Theorem - Part III
  21. Thevenin's Theorem - Part IV
  
  
• TRANSFER FUNCTIONS
  22. Voltage and Current Gains
  23. Loading
  24. Maximum Power
  25. Superposition in Resistor Circuits
  
  
• RESISTOR CIRCUITS WITH TIME-VARYING SOURCES
  26. General Analysis
  27. Basic Properties