Week 1: Basic Circuit Concepts and Analysis
    Course goals and structure
    Charge, current, voltage, resistors, power and energy
    Circuit structure (nodes & elements, active / passive)
    Ideal voltage and current sources
    Voltage and current meters, ideal and real
    Independent & dependent sources
    Preview Lab 1: Intro to analog circuits
         (Voltage division, voltage rise and fall)

Week 2: Circuit Analysis
    Kirchoff’s Voltage and Current Laws
    Resistor reduction, parallel and series
    Voltage and current division
    Circuit simplification
    Node-Voltage analysis
    Matrix representation of N-V analysis

Week 3: Systematic Circuit Analysis
    Matrix solution by Cramer’s rule
    Node-Voltage analysis with dependent sources
    Mesh-Current analysis
    Matrix representation of M-C analysis
    Preview Lab 2: Digital to Analog Converter
        (Thevenin eq. sources,  counter circuit)

Week 4: Circuit Transformations
    Mesh-Current analysis with dependent sources
    Norton and Thevenin Theorems
    Circuit Transformations
    Maximum Power Transfer

Week 5: Operational amplifier circuits:
    * Midterm (Thursday)
    Ideal operational amplifiers
    Non-ideal operational amplifiers
    Node-Voltage analysis with ideal OpAmps
    Preview Lab 3: Analog Optical Data Link(Transmitter & receiver circuits, ideal op-amp)

Week 6: Energy Storage Elements
    Applications of Op-Amps
    Capacitors as an energy storage element
    Series and parallel capacitor reduction
    Time-dependent RC circuit (limiting behavior)

Week 7: Time dependent circuits
    First order response of an RC circuit to a step input
    Inductors and Faraday’s law
    Series and parallel inductor reduction
    Preview Lab 4: RC Circuits
        (RC circuit impedance, comparators)

Week 8: Sinusoidal AC circuits
    Sinusoidal time-dependent sources (time domain)
    Complex domain representation of sinusoids
    Complex impedance of R, C and L elements
    Phasors

Week 9: Phasors
    Kirchoff’s laws using phasors
    Phasor Node Voltage and Mesh Current Analysis
    Source Transformations (Thevenin & Norton eqs)
    High- and low-frequency bandpass filters
    Preview Lab 5: RC Bandpass Filter
         (High- and low-pass filters)

Week 10: Steady-state AC circuit analysis
    Maximum Power Transfer in AC circuits
    Multiple simultaneous frequency circuits
    Final review

Week 11: Final (Thursday 6/11, 8-11am)