EP 155: Class 2005 INTRODUCTION Session Section 02: 01:00-02:20 p.m.

1. EP 155: Class 2005 INTRODUCTION Session Section 02: 01:00-02:20 p.m. Section 04: 02:30-04:00 p.m.

2. The class WEB page is set at Physics: http://physics.usask.ca/~koustov/155 You can reach it through the departmental (Eng Physics) WEB

3. The class includes lectures, 25 overall, home assignments and laboratory experiments 3 instructors will be delivering lectures: Eric Salt – EE Part 1, Lectures 1-9 Sasha Koustov- EP Part 2, Lectures 10-17 Ron Bolton- EE Part 3, Lectures 18-25

4. Laboratory will be run by Brian Zulkoskey, Physics

5. Labs, I Lab Titles E1 Measurement of Voltage and Current, Voltage-Current Relationship E2 DC Measurements of Simple Resistance Networks E4 A. The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem B. Thevenin’s Theorem of Circuit Analysis

6. Labs, II Lab Titles

7. Help Desk: Starts January 17: Mon, 3:30 to 6:00, Room 165 Phys Tue, 2:30 to 6:00, Room 106 Biology Wed, 3:30 to 6:00, Room 165 Phys One of the class instructors (Eric, Sasha, Ron) will participate in Tuesdays sessions from 04:00 to 06:00 and will be answering on any questions.

8. Home assignments:Will be given every Thursday, you would have to submit your work next week Thursday into the slots behind the lecture room and you have to pick up the marked assignment one week later. Thus, every assignment has a cycle of 2 weeks. The text of the assignments will be posted on the class WEB site, followed by solutions one week later.

9. There will be 11 assignments; the last assignment will not be marked and the solutions will not be provided but one of the problems will be included into the final exam. Marking Scheme: For every question asked you will be given 2 points (OK), 1 point (minor errors) or 0 (wrong solution). Total number of points earned will be posted on the class WEB site and updated once a week

10. Please prepare your home assignment on any clean sheets of paper, show your complete work and make a frame for your final answer on every question asked, like this

11. Student current standing will be updated once a week, for each section separately. Please, watch your marks.In a case of technical error by a marker or wrong mark given, see Sasha K., Room 258 (Physics) with your paper. He will be entering the corrected marks, and the corrections will be posted one week later. Please, do this within one week, once next assignment is in, corrections to the previous one will not be considered.

12. There is going to be 2 midterm tests set for Monday, February 77:00-8:00p.m.and Monday, March 14, 7:00-8:30p.m. Whoever (we expect very few) has conflict with this time (e.g., other classes) will be offered an earlier period, 5:15-6:45 p.m. No exceptions.

13. The mark distribution is as follows: Assignments 10 % Laboratory 10 % Mid-term exams (15+15=30 %) Final exam 50 %

14. Textbook to be used: Boylestad's Circuit Analysis, 3rd Canadian Edition, by R.L. Boylestad et al. Available in the bookstore

16. If you have 2nd Edition, should be OK in terms of the material covered, but … • The test problems аrеslightly different, though not always • 2)The pages for the problems are different • So, you would have to take care of 1) and 2)

17. Lecture sequencing: SI units, review of mechanical work (1) Electric charge, Coulomb’s law, electrical potential energy, potential difference, contour maps, electric fields, current (2-5) Resistivity, conductors, Ohm’s law, electrical power and energy (6-7) Kirchhoff’s voltage law, series circuits, voltage divider, “ground” and “earth,” internal resistance of voltage sources (8-9) Parallel circuits, equivalent resistance, Kirchhoff’s current law (10) Series-parallel circuits, circuit analysis by simplification, ladders (11) Measurements of current and voltage (ammeters, voltmeters) (12) Ohmmeter, potentiometer, loading effects of meters (13) Loop analysis, concept (14) Loop analysis, bridges and other examples (15) Current source, conversions, superposition theorem (16,17) Thevenin’s theorem (18) Maximum power transfer theorem (19) Capacitance, electric field, permittivity, dielectric strength, leakage (20-21) Capacitors in series and parallel, stored energy, RC transients, time constants, instantaneous values (22) Magnetic circuits, flux, flux density, permeability, reluctance (23) Inductors, RL circuits, energy stored in inductors (24-25)

18. Major issues to be discussed : • Concepts of electric field, electric potential, electric current (DC) & voltage • Ohm's law, electric power and energy Eric Sasha • Methods of DC circuit analysis •Methods of DC circuit analysis, additions • Concepts of capacitance and transients in RC circuits magnetic field, magnetic circuits inductance Ron

19. Students’ opinion about this class: EP 155 survey (1998, 4-th year students, all departments): How would you rate the level of difficulty of EP_155 relatively to other first/second year classes? c. Intermediate level 51% d. Difficult 19% Do you think this class was helpful for understanding material taken in upper year classes? a. Yes 34% b. To some extent 23% c. Very little 35% d. Not important at all 8%

20. Students’ opinion about this class: What do you think was the most important component? General Content - 65 % Do you think that a person in your discipline should be exposed to the concepts listed below (listfor EP 155)? Yes - 80 % Are these concepts important for learning material in upper year classes? Yes - 61%

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24. Finally, we wish you success in this class and memorable experience.