The objective of the following computer demos is to supplement the Investigations and Labs available on my home page at http://www.csupomona.edu/~apfelzer/. Please send corrections, suggestions and/or comments to Alan Felzer at apfelzer@csupomona.edu

OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS

BASIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS

• RESISTOR CIRCUITS
• CONTROLLED SOURCES
• TWO-PORTS
• BASIC OP AMP CIRCUITS
• TRANSIENT RESPONSES OF 1ST AND 2ND ORDER CIRCUITS
  
• FREQUENCY RESPONSES OF 1ST AND 2ND ORDER CIRCUITS
• INTRODUCTION TO FILTERING
• POLES AND ZEROS

FOURIER SERIES, FOURER TRANSFORM, CONVOLUTION

• INTRODUCTION TO FOURIER SERIES
• INTRODUCTION TO FOURIER TRANSFORM
• INTRODUCTION TO CONVOLUTION

DIGITAL CIRCUITS

• COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS
• SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

• SAMPLING
• DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
• TRANSIENT RESPONSES
• FREQUENCY RESPONSES
• POLES AND ZEROS

PROBABILITY

• BASIC RELATIONSHIPS OF DISCRETE PROBABILITY

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

RESISTOR CIRCUITS

• THE VERY BASICS
  • Current Reference Directions
  • Kirchhoff's Current Law
  • Voltage Reference Directions
  • Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
  • Ohms Law For Linear Resistors
  • Voltage and Current Sources
  • Circuits With One Resistor and One Voltage Source - Part I
  • Circuits With One Resistor and One Voltage Source - Part II
  • Circuits With One Resistor and One Current Source - Part I
  • Circuits With One Resistor and One Current Source - Part II
  • Energy Transfer
  
  
• SERIES AND PARALLEL RESISTOR CIRCUITS
  • Series Circuits
  • Parallel Circuits
  • Equivalent Resistance of Series and Parallel Circuits
  • Open and Short Circuits
    
    
• NODE EQUATIONS OF RESISTOR CIRCUITS
  • Node Equations of Resistor Circuits
  • Calculating Currents From Node Voltages
  
  
• GENERAL PROPERTIES OF RESISTOR CIRCUITS
  • Equivalent Resistance of General Resistor Circuits
  • Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
  • Calculation of Transfer Functions
  • Applications of Transfer Functions
  • Loading
  • Superposition

• RESISTOR CIRCUITS WITH SINUSOIDAL SOURCES
  • Analysis of Resistor Circuits With Sinusoidal Inputs
  • Properties of Resistor Circuits With Sinusoidal Inputs
    

CONTROLLED SOURCES

• ANALYSIS OF CIRCUITS WITH CONTROLLED SOURCES
  • Node Analysis Of Circuits With Controlled Sources
  • Equivalent Circuits Of Circuits With Controlled Sources

TWO-PORTS

• INTRODUCTION TO TWO-PORT PARAMETERS
  • z-Parameters
  • y-Parameters
  • h-Parameters

• FAMILIES OF CURVES
  • Families of Curves For Some Simple Circuits

BASIC OP AMP CIRCUITS

• INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF OP AMP CIRCUITS
  • Introduction To Positive Gain Op Amp Circuits
  • Introduction To Negative Gain Op Amp Circuits
  • Equivalent Circuits Of Basic Op Amp Circuits

TRANSIENT RESPONSES OF FIRST AND SECOND ORDER CIRCUITS

• TRANSIENT RESPONSES OF FIRST ORDER RC CIRCUITS
  • Transient Responses of First Order RC Circuits
  • First Order RC Circuits With Constant Inputs
  • First Order RC Circuits with Switches
  • First Order RC Circuits With Pulse And Pulse Train Inputs
  • First Order RC Circuits With Sinusoidal Inputs
  • Impulse Responses of First Order RC Circuits
  
  
• TRANSIENT RESPONSES OF FIRST ORDER RL CIRCUITS
  • Transient Responses of First Order RL Circuits
  • First Order RL Circuits With Constant Inputs
  • First Order RL Circuits with Switches
  • First Order RL Circuits With Pulse And Pulse Train Inputs
  • First Order RL Circuits With Sinusoidal Inputs
  • Impulse Responses of First Order RL Circuits
  
  
• TRANSIENT RESPONSES OF SECOND ORDER RLC CIRCUITS
  • Transient Responses Of Second Order Series RLC Circuits
  • Transient Responses Of Second Order Parallel RLC Circuits

FREQUENCY RESPONSES OF FIRST AND SECOND ORDER CIRCUITS

• CALCULATION OF SINUSOIDAL STEADY STATE RESPONSES
  • Math For Calculating Sinusoidal Steady State Responses
  • Using Euler's Relation And Phasor Circuits to Calculate Sinusoidal Steady State Responses

• FREQUENCY RESPONSES OF 1ST ORDER CIRCUITS
  • Sinusoidal Steady State Responses Of First Order RC Circuits
  • Sinusoidal Steady State Responses Of First Order RL Circuits
  • Calculation Of Transfer Functions
  • Using Transfer Functions To Calculate Sinusoidal Steady State Responses
  • Transfer Functions Of First Order RC Circuits
  • Transfer Functions Of First Order RL Circuits
  • Bode Plots Of First Order Transfer Functions
  • Relationship Between Time and Frequency Responses
  
  
• FREQUENCY RESPONSES OF 2ND ORDER CIRCUITS
  • Sinusoidal Steady State Responses of Second Order RLC Circuits
  • Transfer Functions of Second Order RLC Circuits
  • The Center Frequencies and Q's of Second Order RLC Circuits

INTRODUCTION TO FILTERS

• FREQUENCY RESPONSES OF FIRST AND SECOND ORDER FILTERS
  • Frequency Responses of First Order Lowpass Filters
  • Frequency Responses of First Order Highpass Filters
  • Frequency Responses of Second Order Bandpass Filters

• IDEAL FILTERS
  • Frequency Responses of Ideal Filters

• SPECTRAL PLOTS
  • Introduction to Spectral Plots
  • Calculations With Spectral Plots

• PHASE AND GROUP DELAY
  • Comparison Of Constant Phase Delay And Constant Group Delay

POLES AND ZEROES

• POLES AND ZEROS OF FIRST AND SECOND ORDER CIRCUITS
  • Poles and Zeroes of First Order Circuits
  • Poles and Zeroes of Second Circuits

INTRODUCTION TO FOURIER SERIES

• FOURIER SERIES OF PERIODIC SIGNALS
  • Introduction To Fourier Series Expansions
  • Fourier Series Expansions of Pulse Trains
  • Spectral Plots Of Periodic Signals
  • Filtering of Periodic Signals
  • Two-Sided Spectral Plots
  • Envelopes of Spectral Plots
  • Applications of Spectral Analysis
    

INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURIER TRANSFORM

• BASIC IDEA OF THE FOURIER TRANSFORM
  • Spectral Densities and The Fourier Transform
  • Fourier Transforms of Pulses, Impulses and Constants
  • Fourier Trasforms of Periodic Signals
    

INTRODUCTION TO CONVOLUTION

• CALCULATION OF THE CONVOLUTION
  • Graphical Convolution
  • The Integrals of Functions Times Impulses
  • Convolutions of Functions With Impulses

• CONVOLUTION IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN
  • Using Convolution To Calculate Spectrums

COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

• INTRODUCTION TO COMBINATIONAL CIRCUITS
• Basic Logic Gates
• DeMorgan's Theorem

SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

• INTRODUCTION TO SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS
  • SR And D Latches
  • D And JK Flip-Flops
  • A Simple Sequential Circuit
  • Sequential Circuits and State Diagrams

SAMPLING

• INTRODUCTION TO SAMPLING
  • Sampling of Sinusoids
  • Ideal Impulse Sampling
  • Aliasing

PROBABILITY

• BASIC RELATIONSHIPS OF DISCRETE PROBABILITY
  • Conditional Probability and Independence
  • Discrete Probability Distributions
  • The Binomial Probability Distribution
  • Discrete Joint Probabilities

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