| Instructor(s) | Sudip Nag [Coordinator] Office: EPH 400Q Phone: TBA Email: sudip.nag@torontomu.ca Office Hours: Tuesdays 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. | ||||||||||||||||
| Calendar Description | This one-semester lecture/lab course covers general electric circuit parameters and laws. Topics include: basic electric circuits, voltage and current sources, resistance, analysis of DC circuits, power considerations. Concepts of capacitance, inductance, and their transient behaviour. Introduction of AC sources, phasors, reactance and impedance, AC analysis of RC, RL, and RCL circuits, the effect of resonance, real and complex power in reactive loads. | ||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites | MTH140 and MTH141 | ||||||||||||||||
| Antirequisites | None | ||||||||||||||||
| Corerequisites | None | ||||||||||||||||
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| Learning Objectives (Indicators) | At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
NOTE:Numbers in parentheses refer to the graduate attributes required by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Organization | 3.0 hours of lecture per week for 13 weeks | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Assistants | Hamed Mohammadkazemi (hmohammadkazemi@torontomu.ca) Anahita Abbasnejad Seresti (aseresti@torontomu.ca) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Evaluation |
Note: In order for a student to pass a course, a minimum overall course mark of 50% must be obtained. In addition, for courses that have both "Theory and Laboratory" components, the student must pass the Laboratory and Theory portions separately by achieving a minimum of 50% in the combined Laboratory components and 50% in the combined Theory components. Please refer to the "Course Evaluation" section above for details on the Theory and Laboratory components (if applicable). | ||||||||||||||||
| Examinations | 1. The midterm is scheduled on October XX, 2025 , xx pm to yy pm, outside regular lecture hours. It will be a closed book exam and of 2 hours duration. The location will be announced later. 2. The official final exam will be announced by the timetabling department. The final exam includes materials discussed from the beginning to the end. It will be a closed book exam and of 3 hours duration. Note: Refer to the course webpage on D2L Brightspace for updated information on the Midterm and Final Exam schedule and coverage. | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Evaluation Information | 1. Students are encouraged to earn passing marks in both theory and lab components separately. In the absence of students lab portions with valid medical reasons and proper documents submitted and verified by students department, the grades will be shifted to final exam. As labs are hands-on, earning lab grades during the term is a lot simpler than compensating lab grades in final exam. Lab reports should be handed in the week after the labs. 2. The lab tests are conducted individually. There are two lab tests worth a total of XX%. The first lab test is conducted after labs 1 to 3 are completed. It is worth XX%. The second lab test is conducted after labs 4 and 5 are completed. It is worth XX%. Lab tests are scheduled for one hour per person and have small pre-lab, implementation, and post- lab reports handed in. These test reports are written per person, will be marked and posted online. There is no question asked policy for lab tests. Students must use actual lab sessions as their practice run, as there is no practice lab session (or make-up) prior to the tests. 3. Only university-approved calculators are allowed. Only the non-programmable approved calculator (e.g., Sharp EL546 or Casio FX-991MS and their later models) will be allowed. Also, both midterm and final exams are 'no question-asked' exams. | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | In-person (classes, labs, and exams). | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Information | 1. Lectures will be held in-person in the designated classroom (ARC108 Classroom; Mondays; 3:00PM - 6:00PM). 2. The In-Lab Work to be undertaken in-person in the designated laboratory room. 3. Office hours will be online. The link will be shared later. 4. Please carefully check your schedule for location of the lecture and lab classes. Lab attendance is mandatory. | ||||||||||||||||
Week | Hours | Chapters / | Topic, description |
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1-2 | 12 | 1, 2, course notes | Introduction to EES512: scope and objectives course management. Basic concepts charge, current, voltage, power, energy, Kirchhoff's current law and voltage law, Ohm's Law, combination of resistors ,resistive circuits |
3-4 | 12 | 3, 4, course notes | Series and parallel circuits, voltage and current divisions, circuit reduction, Nodal, Mesh Nodal and Mesh analysis, Thevenin and Norton theorems, Source Transformation, Superposition principles, Wheatstone bridge, ideal and real voltage sources and Maximum power transfer theorem |
5 | 3 | 6, 7, course notes | Capacitance practical capacitors series and parallel connections transients in RC circuits. Self-inductance series and parallel connections transients in RL circuits time constants and graphical representations. |
5-6 | 12 | 9, 10, 11, course notes | Generation of AC voltages parameters of AC waveforms average and effective (RMS) values review of complex number algebra phasor representation impedance and admittance capacitive and inductive reactance. |
7 | 3 | 7,8, course notes | Series R-L R-C and R-L- C loads general series-parallel AC circuits. Phasor analysis of AC currents voltage and phase shifts. AC Power Analysis |
Week | L/T/A | Description |
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1 | No Lab | No Lab /Tutorial (Sep. 08, 2025) |
2 | Lab 1 Tutorial 1 & Quiz 1 | Lab 1.1 Ohm's Law |
3 | Lab 2 Tutorial 2 & Quiz2 | Lab 2 Nodal Analysis |
4 | Lab 3 Tutorial 3 & Quiz3 | Lab 3.1 Thevenin Theorem |
5 | Lab Test 1 Tutorial 4 and Quiz 4 | Lab Test 1 Covering Labs 1,2 and 3 |
6 | Lab 4,Lab 5 | Lab 4.1 RC Circuit Step Response |
7 | Lab Test 2 Tutorial 5 and Quiz 5 | Lab Test 2 Covering Labs 4 and 5 |
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