EXAM REVIEW TOPICS:Lecture 2:* What is current?* Sign convention* Positive and negative charge* AC versus DC * What is voltage?* How is it related to energy?* What is the “ground” potential? * What is the physical ground “plane” versus the reference node?* Power?* Passive sign convention* Energy* Components* Sign convention of voltage/current* Sign convention of power* Voltage Source* Ideal voltage source* Real battery* Internal resistance/ source resistance* Ideal switch* voltage/current /power* From Physics: KCL/KVL* Battery packs (homework)Lecture 3:* Conductors* Ideal conductors* Real conductors* Ohm’s law* Calculating resistance* Conductance* Power loss in conductors* Strain gauge as an example* Resistors as modeling elements* Light bulb* Motor* Antenna* Speakers* Anything passive!* Energy loss in power delivery* High voltage versus high current* Need for transformers / AC* Resistors* Series resistors* Parallel resistorsLecture 4:* Current source* Dependent sources versus independent sources* Resistive dividers* Voltage dividers* Current dividers* Shorts and opens/Winners and losers* Variable resistors/Pots* Efficiency of divider circuits Lecture 5:* Nodal analysis* counting nodes* reference node* eliminating nodes* super nodes* trivial nodes* Nodal without dependent sources* Nodal with dependent sources* Knowns versus unknowns* Setting up equations in standard formet (LHS = RHS)* LHS = unknowns* RHS = knownsLecture 6:* Linearity and Superposition* Thevenin Equivalent* Voc and Isc* “Req” approach without internal sources* “Req” with independent sources* Norton Equivalent* Maximum power transfer theorem* Wheatstone Bridge (homework)Lecture 7:* Amplifiers* Terminals* Signal pins versus power pins* Gain* Ideal vs. Real* Input R / Output R* Equivalent circuit* Loading* Dividers at input / output* Effective gain* Cascade* Dynamic Range* Clipping* Types: CC, VV, CV, VC* Most common is
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