7.00 Credits
This course covers the foundations of DC and AC electrical circuits. Major topics included are: atomic structure, units of measurement, engineering and scientific notation, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems, superposition theorem, mesh and nodal analysis, reactance, impedance, resonance, and transformers. Breadboarding techniques will be emphasized in the laboratory section of the course - along with the use of power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, and function generators.