Simulation-based Labs for Circuit Analysis

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DC Circuits 1. Fundamental Circuit Conventions 2. Ohm’s Law 3. Power in DC Circuits 4. Series and Parallel Resistors in DC Circuits 5. Variable Resistors in DC Circuits 6. Superposition Principle in DC Circuits 7. Short Circuits and Open Circuits DC 8. Thevenin’s Theorem and Maximum Power Transfer in DC Circuits DC 9. Norton’s Theorem in DC Circuits 10. RC Circuits in DC 11. RL Circuits in DC 12. Wheatstone Bridge Operational Amplifier Circuits 13. Amplifier Fundamentals 14. Saturation of Operational Amplifiers 15. Noninverting Operational Amplifier Configuration 16. Inverting Operational Amplifier Configuration 17. Measuring the Slew Rate of Operational Amplifiers. AC Circuits AC 18. Measurement of Parameters and Phase Differences of Sinusoids 19. Capacitive Reactance, Inductive Reactance, Impedance 20. Non-sinusoidal Waveforms 21. Resistive Circuits with AC Sources 22. Purely Capacitive Circuits with Sinusoidal and Non-sinusoidal Sources 23. Purely Inductive Circuits with Sinusoidal and Non-sinusoidal Sources 24. Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis in the Phasor Domain 25. Series Combination AC Circuits 26. Parallel Combination AC Circuits 27. Series-Parallel AC Circuits 28. Superposition Principle in AC Circuits 29. Thevenin’s Theorem and Maximum Power Transfer in AC 30. Series Resonant Circuits 31. Parallel Resonant Circuits 32. Low-Pass Filters 33. High-Pass Filters 34. The Transformer and the Impedance Matching Appendix A. Complex Numbers, Sinewaves and Phasors