Circuits

ECE 200 Introduction to Signals, Circuits and Systems

The beginning of this course covered Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, and applied them to simple electric circuits consisting of resistors, voltage sources, and current sources. Eventually we added more complex components such as diodes and capacitors. Then we learned about signal analysis, such as finding the period, frequency, DC value, and peak to peak value of a voltage signal. We practiced plotting different signals as well as real power delivered and absorbed by components. This led to the concept of RMS, which is the value of DC voltage which would absorb the equivalent power as the original in AC. RMS stands for Root, Mean, Square and is a way of representing a periodic signal. We also covered frequency analysis such as finding noise, signal power, phase spectrum, and power spectrum using the Fast Fourier Transform function on the oscilloscope. Many of our labs focused on confirming our in class formulas with our physical circuit and analyzing them with multimeters, oscilloscopes, and the Analog Discovery 2 system.

After completing the lab but before our lab time ended, me and my partner had many experiments we wanted to test out with the equiptment

ECE 211 Electric Circuits