DC Circuit Analysis for Robotics ELEX 1205

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

QUANTITIES, UNITS AND SYMBOLS

• Use quantities, units and symbols in the correct context.
• Define the terms 'variable' and 'parameter'.
• Convert between scientific and engineering notation.
• Calculate values using standard SI prefixes.
• List the relationships between charge, time, current, voltage, energy, power and efficiency.
• Calculate values using charge, time, current, voltage, energy, power and efficiency.
• Produce graphs of charge versus time and current versus time.

OHM'S LAW

• Apply Ohm's Law to circuit design, analysis and testing.
• Describe the relationships between voltage, current, resistance and power.
• Calculate voltage, current, resistance and power using Ohm's Law.
• Identify resistor values by power rating and colour code.
• Set up circuits according to schematic diagrams.
• Operate a DC power supply.
• Measure voltage, current and resistance using analog and digital meters.
• Plot current versus voltage for non-linear devices and calculate static and dynamic resistance.

SERIES CIRCUITS

• Analyze, design and test series circuits.
• List the three basic characteristics of series circuits.
• Describe the purpose of switches, fuses and circuit breakers.
• Analyze resistive circuits using Ohm’s Law and Kirchoff’s Voltage Law.
• Define the anode, cathode, biasing and forward voltage drop of a silicon diode and a light emitting diode.
• Identify the anode and cathode of a silicon diode using an ohmmeter.
• Analyze circuits with resistors and a diodes in series.
• Calculate voltages using the voltage divider rule.
• Define and calculate relative potential.
• Analyze series circuits with multiple voltage sources.
• Analyze series circuits with sources that have internal resistance.
• Analyze series circuits that have significant conductor resistance.
• Design a multi-range voltmeter.

PARALLEL CIRCUITS

• Analyze, design and test parallel circuits.
• Identify parallel components in schematic diagrams.
• List the three basic characteristics of parallel circuits.
• Analyze resistive parallel circuits using Ohm's Law and Kirchoff’s Current Law.
• Calculate currents using the current divider rule.
• Compare the characteristics of ideal and practical current sources.
• Convert between current sources and voltage sources.
• Analyze parallel circuits with current sources.
• Analyze parallel circuits with both voltage and current sources.
• Design a multi-range ammeter.
• SERIES-PARALLEL CIRCUITS
• Analyze, design and test series-parallel circuits by comparing, contrasting and combining series and parallel circuits.
• Identify series and parallel parts of circuits.
• Calculate voltage, current and power for series-parallel circuits using series and parallel methods.
• Design loaded voltage-divider circuits.
• Measure voltage and current in a loaded voltage-divider circuit.
• Calculate resistance values for a balanced Wheatstone bridge.
• Calculate line currents in a 3-wire power distribution circuit.
• Design and test an ammeter and a voltmeter based on an analog meter movement.
• Determine the internal resistance of sources from voltage and current measurements.
• Calculate the effects of voltmeter and ammeter loading.

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS METHODS FOR NETWORKS

• Analyze circuits using various network analysis methods.
• Analyze networks using the current assumption method.
• Analyze networks using the superposition theorem.
• Analyze networks using mesh analysis.
• Analyze networks using nodal analysis.
• Measure currents in a 3-wire distribution circuit.

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT METHODS FOR NETWORKS

• Solve and test for specific parameters in a DC circuit network using alternate equivalent techniques.
• Simplify a network into series-parallel form using wye-delta conversion.
• Reduce a network to its Thevenin equivalent circuit.
• Calculate the value of a load resistor to obtain maximum power transfer.
• Reduce a network to its Norton equivalent circuit.
• Reduce network by alternately applying Thevenin and Norton methods.
• Design a T-pad attenuator to obtain desired attenuation and resistance matching.
• Calculate values using the reciprocity theorem.
• Measure bridge current in balanced and unbalanced bridges.
• Measure voltage and current in equivalent wye, delta and Thevenin circuits to confirm equivalency.

ANALYZE WAVEFORMS

• Analyze AC and DC waveforms.
• Define DC, AC, peak, peak-to-peak, cycle, period, frequency and wavelength for any periodic waveform.
• Calculate the RMS value of a sinusoidal waveform.

Effective as of Fall 2013