Schedules
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Use these lists to help manage your time as you work your way through EE 201. If you are self-motivated and good at staying on task, you can probably use the "topics" list to manage your work. You may be able finish most of EE 201 well before the end of the semester. If you prefer a more guided approach, use the "day-by-day" list to structure your time. It is not necessary to adhere rigidly to the schedule, but if you track it within ±3 days, you will be succesful in EE 201. The "due date" list is not meant for structuring a schedule. If you wait until just before the due dates to complete your work, you are doomed.
Links to the listed lecture topics, quiz/practice problems, homework, and lab/Spice descriptions are given on those specific pages.
Suggested approach: Start at the top and work your way down to the bottom. If you do some work every day, you should not need to worry about due dates. However, you should be aware of the due dates, just to be certain that you don't miss anything.
Act I - Basics
- Charge, current, voltage : Q1
- Energy & power : Q2
- Sources & resistors
- Kirchoff's Laws : Q3, Q4
- Sinusoids
- Series & Parallel : Q5
- Dividers : Q6
- Source transformations : Q7
- Node voltage : Q8, Q9
- Mesh Current : Q10, Q11
- Superposition : Q12
- SPICE
Act II - Equivalent circuits and a touch of electronics
- Dependent sources
- Thevenin / Norton equivalent circuits : Q13, Q14
- Two-port networks
- Amplifiers : Q15
- Feedback : Q16
- Op Amps : Q17, Q18
- Diodes : Q19, Q20
Act III - Capacitor, inductors, transients, and sinusoids
- Capacitors : Q21
- Inductors : Q22
- RC transients : Q23
- RL transients : Q24
- Complex numbers and math : Q25
- RLC transients : Q26
- AC circuits - the hard way
- AC circuits - the complex way
- AC circuits - the impedance way : Q27, Q28, Q29, Q30
- AC resonance
- AC power
A suggested work schedule - Jan 25 to May 6. If you follow this and work on each items within few days of its listed date, you should be fine. However, you should be aware of the official due dates just to make certain that you don't miss anything.
| date | day | read / practice | quiz | homework | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/25 | Mon | Course intro charge/current/voltage |
HW set 1 | No lab | |
| 1/26 | Tue | charge/current/voltage | |||
| 1/27 | Wed | energy/power | |||
| 1/28 | Thu | energy/power | |||
| 1/29 | Fri | sources & resistors | 1 - charge/current | ||
| 1/30 | Sat | sources & resistors | |||
| 2/1 | Mon | Kirchoff's Laws | 2 - energy/power | HW set 1 | Group A - Lab 1 |
| 2/2 | Tue | Kirchoff's Laws | |||
| 2/3 | Wed | Kirchoff's Laws | 3 - Kirchoff's Laws | ||
| 2/4 | Thu | Kirchoff's Laws | |||
| 2/5 | Fri | Sinusoids | 4 - Kirchoff's Laws | ||
| 2/6 | Sat | Sinusoids | |||
| 2/8 | Mon | Series/parallel | HW set 2 | Group B - Lab 1 | |
| 2/9 | Tue | Series/parallel | |||
| 2/10 | Wed | Dividers | 5 - Series/parallel | ||
| 2/11 | Thu | Dividers | |||
| 2/12 | Fri | Source transformations | 6 - Dividers | ||
| 2/13 | Sat | Source transformations | |||
| 2/15 | Mon | Node voltage | 7 - Source trans. | HW set 3 | Group A - Lab 2 |
| 2/16 | Tue | Node voltage | |||
| 2/17 | Wed | Node voltage | 8 - Node voltage | ||
| 2/18 | Thu | Node voltage | |||
| 2/19 | Fri | Mesh current | 9 - Node voltage | ||
| 2/20 | Sat | Mesh current | |||
| 2/22 | Mon | Mesh current | 10 - Mesh current | HW set 4 | Group B - Lab 2 |
| 2/23 | Tue | Mesh current | |||
| 2/24 | Wed | Superposition | 11 - Mesh current | ||
| 2/25 | Thu | Superposition | |||
| 2/26 | Fri | Superposition | |||
| 2/27 | Sat | Superposition | |||
| 3/1 | Mon | Thevenin | 12 - Superposition | No HW this week. | Group A - Lab 3 |
| 3/2 | Tue | Thevenin | |||
| 3/3 | Wed | Thevenin | 13 - Thevenin | ||
| 3/4 | Thu | Two-ports | |||
| 3/5 | Fri | Exam 1 | |||
| 3/6 | Sat | Exam 1 | |||
| 3/8 | Mon | Two-ports | 14 - Thevenin | No HW this week. | Group B - Lab 3 |
| 3/9 | Tue | Two-ports | |||
| 3/10 | Wed | Amplifiers | |||
| 3/11 | Thu | Amplifiers | |||
| 3/12 | Fri | Two-port amp model | |||
| 3/13 | Sat | Two-port amp model | |||
| 3/15 | Mon | Feedback | 15 - two-port amps | HW set 5 | Group A - Lab 4 Group B - Spice 1 |
| 3/16 | Tue | Feedback | |||
| 3/17 | Wed | Op amps | 16 - Feedback | ||
| 3/18 | Thu | Op amps | |||
| 3/19 | Fri | Op amps | 17 - Op amps | ||
| 3/20 | Sat | Diodes | |||
| 3/22 | Mon | Diodes | 18 - Op amps | HW set 6 | Group A - Spice 1 Group B - Lab 4 |
| 3/23 | Tue | Diodes | |||
| 3/24 | Wed | Diodes | 19 - Diodes | ||
| 3/25 | Thu | Capacitors | |||
| 3/26 | Fri | Capacitors | 20 - Diodes | ||
| 3/27 | Sat | Capacitors | |||
| 3/29 | Mon | Inductors | 21 - Capactitors | HW set 7 | Group A - Lab 5 |
| 3/30 | Tue | Inductors | |||
| 3/31 | Wed | Inductors | 22 - Inductors | ||
| 4/1 | Thu | RC transients | |||
| 4/2 | Fri | RC transients | |||
| 4/3 | Sat | RC transients | |||
| 4/5 | Mon | RL transients | 23 - RC transients | No HW this week. | Group B - Lab 5 |
| 4/6 | Tue | RL transients | |||
| 4/7 | Wed | RL transients | |||
| 4/8 | Thu | complex numbers | |||
| 4/9 | Fri | Exam 2 | |||
| 4/10-11 | Sat/Sun | Exam 2 | |||
| 4/12 | Mon | RLC transients | 24 - RL transients | HW set 8 | Group A - Lab 6 Group B - Spice 2 |
| 4/13 | Tue | RLC transients | |||
| 4/14 | Wed | RLC transients | 25 - complex math | ||
| 4/15 | Thu | RLC transients | |||
| 4/16 | Fri | AC - hard way | |||
| 4/17 | Sat | AC - hard way | |||
| 4/19 | Mon | AC - complex way | 26 - RLC transients | HW set 9 | Group A - Spice 2 Group B - Lab 6 |
| 4/20 | Tue | AC - complex way | |||
| 4/21 | Wed | AC - impedance way | |||
| 4/22 | Thu | AC - impedance way | |||
| 4/23 | Fri | AC - impedance way | 27 - AC analysis | ||
| 4/24 | Sat | AC - impedance way | |||
| 4/26 | Mon | AC - impedance way | 28 - AC analysis | No more HW. | Complete any unfinished lab work. |
| 4/27 | Tue | AC - resonance | |||
| 4/28 | Wed | AC - resonance | 29 - AC analysis | ||
| 4/29 | Thu | AC - power | |||
| 4/30 | Fri | AC - power | 30 - AC analysis | ||
| 5/1 | Sat | review | |||
| 5/3 | Mon | Exam 3 | |||
| 5/4 | Tue | Exam 3 | |||
| 5/5 | Wed | Exam 3 | |||
| 5/6 | Thu | Exam 3 |
Submit work by the first due date to get full credit. Work submitted after the first due date but before the second due date earns a 20% penalty. (2 points per problem on quizzes and homework or 10 points off on lab and Spice reports.). Don't bother submitting work after the second due date.
Do not use this list as means for managing your time. Use it in conjunction with the "subject" or "day-by-day" lists to make certain that you are not late for any work.
| work | due date 1 | due date 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Quiz 1 | Sat, Feb 13 | Sat, Feb 20 |
| Quiz 2 | Sat, Feb 13 | Sat, Feb 20 |
| Quiz 3 | Sat, Feb 13 | Sat, Feb 20 |
| Quiz 4 | Sat, Feb 13 | Sat, Feb 20 |
| HW 1 | Sat, Feb 13 | Sat, Feb 20 |
| Quiz 5 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 6 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 7 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 8 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 9 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 10 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 11 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Quiz 12 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| HW 2 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| HW 3 | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| L1 report | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| L2 report | Sat, Mar 6 | Sat, Mar 13 |
| Exam 1 | Sat, Mar 6 | NA |
| Quiz 13 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 14 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 15 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 16 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 17 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 18 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| HW 4 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| HW 5 | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| L3 report | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| SP 1 report | Sat, Mar 27 | Sat, Apr 3 |
| Quiz 19 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| Quiz 20 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| Quiz 21 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| Quiz 22 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| Quiz 23 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| HW 6 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| HW 7 | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| L4 report | Sat, Apr 10 | Sat, Apr 17 |
| Exam 2 | Sun, Apr 11 | NA |
| Quiz 24 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 25 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 26 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 27 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 28 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 29 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Quiz 30 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| HW 9 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| HW 10 | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| L5 report | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| L6 report | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| SP 2 report | Sat, May 1 | Sat, May 8 |
| Exam 3 | Thu, May 6 | NA |