2009 Course Handbook
ELEC290: Linear Circuits
This unit develops the key skills of modelling passive and active circuit elements, and analysing circuits including these models in both the time and frequency domains. For passive circuits, topics covered are ideal electrical components, energy dissipation and energy storage, Kirchhoff's laws, network analysis, transient versus steady-state response, time-domain versus frequency-domain analysis, Bode plots, first-order and second-order circuits, and simple filters. For active circuits, the unit concentrates on analysis of ideal and non-ideal operational amplifiers, design of amplifier circuits and principles of hierarchical design, operational-amplifier-based active filters and oscillators, principles of feedback and stability, and MOSFET device physics and linear and switching behaviour.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 6 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Professor Karu Esselle |
| Prerequisites: | ELEC166(P) |
| Corequisites: | MATH133 or MATH136 |
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| Unit Designations: |
Technology
Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Physics and Engineering |
Timetable Information
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