LSM 2 (YEAR 2, SPRING)
Circuit Theory Applications
Textbook: Charles K. Alexander, Matthew N. O. Sadiku: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 6th ed. Mc Graw Hill.
Anchoring concept: AC circuits: Circuits with AC sources and linear elements
Subtopics:
- Components of an AC-signal: magnitude, phase, angular freq, frequency, period (9.2)
- Phasors (9.3)
- Complex algebra (use of rectangular and polar representations of complex variables and their relation to AC-signals and impedance) (9.3 – 9.7)
- Phase shift and leading and lagging signals (9.2, 9.8)
- AC circuit solving techniques (taught in ECE103 for DC circuits)
- Nodal and mesh analysis (10.2, 10.3)
- Superposition (10.4)
- Source transformation (10.5)
- Thevenin and Northon equivalent (10.6)
- Circuits with ideal OpAmps (10.7)
Introduction to Communications Principles
Textbook: Roy D. Yates and David G. Goodman, Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers, 3rd Edition, Wiley.
Anchoring concept: Multivariate probability distributions (Chapter 5)
Subtopics:
- Joint CDF (5.1), Joint PMF/PDF (5.2, 5.4)
- Marginal PMF/PDF (5.4, 5.5)
- Conditional probability models
- Independent random variables (5.6)
- Covariance, correlation (5.8)
- Conditional probability (7.3, 7.4, 7.5)
Differential Equations
Anchoring concept: Mathematical models