Reading: Chapters 1-4. In particular:
  • The passive convention and Table 1.5-1.
  • Dependent sources. Figure 2.7-1 and Table 2.7-1.
  • Table 3.10-1 summaries the equations pertaining to series and parallel elements.
  • Figure 4.2-3 shows how to express element currents and voltages as functions of the node voltages.
  • Figure 4.5-4 shows how to express element currents and voltages as functions of the mesh currents.

Exam Information:

  • This midterm exam is a 75 minute exam given during the regularly scheduled class meeting.

  • This midterm covers material from the beginning of ES250 to the fall break. In particular:
    • Circuits containing dependent sources.
    • Equivalent circuits, voltage division and current division.
    • Mesh and node equations.
  • Bring a calculator.
Practice Exams:
  1. Practice Exam 1 exam, answers and solutions.
  2. Practice Exam 1 exam, answers and solutions.
  3. Bonus Problems problems, answers and solutions.

On-line Exercises:

  1. Kirchhoff's Laws
  2. Simple Circuits
  3. Circuits with Dependent Sources
  4. Voltage and Current Division
  5. Dependent Sources, Voltage and Current Division
  6. Equivalent Resistors
  7. Equivalent Circuits
  8. Node equations
  9. Mesh equations.
  10. Mesh or node equations for resistive circuits.
  11. More resistive circuits 


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