ME 333 Circuits Review Material
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- know the units and constitutive laws for linear circuit elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors)
- understand first-order exponential response and RC and L/R time constants for RC and RL circuits
- understand the steady-state behavior of capacitors and inductors
- be able to calculate the power dissipated by, or produced by, various circuit elements (current times voltage)
- be able to set up and solve for currents flowing through networks of resistors, voltage sources, and current sources (Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws)
- be able to calculate the energy in capacitors and inductors
- understand how diodes work, and their current vs. voltage curve
- understand how bipolar junction transistors work, both NPN and PNP, and their cut-off, linear (active), and saturation modes
- be able to reason about circuits containing both linear elements and nonlinear elements
- solve circuits containing ideal op-amps (infinite gain, input terminals at same voltage if any negative feedback path, infinite input impedance, zero output impedance) and applications like inverting amplifiers, summer, integrator, differentiator
Most of these topics are covered under the wiki page Electronics basics. In particular, the material above is covered by