📚 Course: Linear Circuits A
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🧑🏫lectures
| File | Topic | Status | Created |
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| lecture_EE1C1_lec2_kirchhoff_2025-09-08 | kirchhoffs_laws | Pending | September 08, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec3_circuit_analysis_2025-09-15 |
| Pending | September 15, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec4_thevenin_superposition_2025-09-22 |
| Pending | September 22, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec5_opamps_2025-10-07 |
| Pending | October 07, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec6_capacitor_inductcor_2025-10-13 |
| Completed | October 13, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec7_first_order_transient_2025-10-20 | First-Order Transient Circuits (RC & RL) | Pending | October 20, 2025 |
| lecture_EE1C1_lec8_second-order-transient_2025-10-25 |
| Pending | October 25, 2025 |
📝assignments
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Description
- Focus: SYSTEM interpretation and modeling of complex, linear circuits.
- EE1C1 Part 1 (Core):
- Calculates voltages/currents in circuits (sources, resistors, inductors, capacitors).
- Introduces basic components and DC analysis methods.
- Explains operation of inductors and capacitors.
- Forms basis for studying first- and second-order circuits.
- EE1C2 Part 2 (Continuation): Applies EE1C1 knowledge to AC steady-state and advanced transient conditions.
- CourseLab (EE1C1):
- Physical demonstration of concepts.
- Develops skills in assembling circuits and using lab equipment.
- Includes preparatory sessions to discuss practical problems.
Learning objectives
After completing the course, the student is able to:
**Circuit theory competences / skills:
- Express and apply the basic concepts of electrical circuit
- Estimate, examine and evaluate the basic circuital quantities (current, voltage, charge, energy, power);
- Identify, interpret and examine the basic circuit elements: independent sources, resistances, inductances, capacitances, op-amps (strictly as linear circuit elements) and dependent sources; account for them via their specific operational/mathematical models;
- Express Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s theorems, and apply them for calculating currents and voltages in circuits;
- Identify series and parallel circuits, and apply the needed relations for calculating currents and voltages in circuits;
- Express and interpret the nodal and mesh methods, and apply them to circuit analysis;
- Express and interpret special instruments for analysing circuits: source transformation, superposition, Thévenin/Norton equivalents, and apply them to circuit analysis;
- Identify and interpret first-order electric circuits, and apply the suitable formalism for evaluating their transient behaviour;
- Identify and interpret second-order electric circuits, and apply the suitable formalism for evaluating their transient behaviour.
CourseLab / skills:
- Interpret electronic schematics;
- Solder electronic components;
- Use basic laboratory (testing) equipment: sources, function generators, multi-meters, and oscilloscopes.
Teaching method
- 16 hrs lectures
- 32 hrs seminars
- 16 hrs CourseLabs
- 6 self-assessed graded homework assignments (SGHs)
- 2 partial exams
Contact hours per week
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Assessment
This course has:
- 6 Self-assessed Graded Homework assignments (SGHs), handled via a TU Delft platform → the SGHs yield a sliding-weight bonus for the exam (see below);
- CourseLab preparatory + lab sessions; a successful completion of the CourseLab is needed to be passed with a sufficient for validating the exam grade;
- two written partial examinations, (weeks 1.5 and 1.10);
- a resit.
The final grade of the course consists of the following components:
- the written exams grade (denoted as E): (i) the average of the written partial exam 1 and the written partial exam 2; (ii) the grade of the resit; this grade ranges from 1 to 10;
- the result of the SGHs (denoted as B); it is calculated as the average of the results of all but one of the SGHs, in which any non-made SGH is graded with a 0; either the least-scoring SGH (when all SGHs were done) or a non-made one are omitted from the average; this grade ranges from 0 to 10.
The two grades are combined according to the formula:
C = E + B * (10-E) / 100
with C being rounded to half points → this result is recorded in the catalogue.
Applicable conditions:
- To pass the course, a rounded-off, final grade C of at least 5.76 points in scale 1–10 is needed.
- The CourseLabs yield a check that validates the course grade.
- The SGHs result is valid for the partial exams and the resit, but only in the year the assignments have been made.
- The resit includes the contents of both partial exams.
- The result of the partial exams expires for the resit and is not transferable to the next academic year.
- Rules applying to the SGHs: (i) students are allowed to collaborate, but each student is responsible (being a sole author) for the content of the submitted deliverables, which must also be self-written; (ii) when applicable, the deliverables must specify the type of collaboration, and, whether and which AI-(writing)tools have been used, and how they were used; AI tools are not allowed to generate text, or code, or to interpret findings or results; (iii) more course-specific information and guidelines will be provided on the course specific Brightspace page.
Disclaimer: information may change depending on unforeseen circumstances or measures (see: TER Art 29, sub 4).
In case of insufficient results a repair option may exist in accordance with Article 2, Examination requirements, Clause 4, of the Implementation Regulations 2024-2025.
Literature and Course materials
- Charles K. Alexander, Matthew N. O. Sadiku, “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits”, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill.
- Handouts (copies of the lecture slides) are made available after the lectures.
- Recordings of the lectures are also made available via Brightspace.
- Supplementary reading offered via Brightspace.
- During the exam, students can use a simple non-programmable and non-graphical calculator (like the TI-30 or Casio FX-82).
- Students are allowed to have a handwritten A4 with their own summary / notes during the exam.
- The exam is NOT an open book exam.
- During the exam, students are allowed to ask questions to clarify the wording.