Introduction to Electrical Circuits: Laboratory
Table of Contents
©2008 by Professor Mohamad H. Hassoun
©2017
Revised by Qiuye Yu, Chang Fu and Xiaoce Feng
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The Oscilloscope (Experiment 1)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
The Function Generator (Experiment
2)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
Resistors
and Multimeter Measurements (Experiment 3)
The DC Power Supply and the
Multimeter
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
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Measuring Resistance
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Resistor Color Code
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Ohm’s Law (V-I graph)
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Resistor Power Rating and the DC Supply
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Measuring DC Voltages and Currents
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Measuring AC (RMS) Voltage
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Multimeter Loading Effects
Simple
Resistive Circuits (Experiment 4)
Protoboard (Pre-Lab, Part A) Watch Video
DC
Analysis with Multisim (Pre-Lab, Part
B)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
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Resistance of Resistive Networks
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The Current Divider
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The Voltage Divider
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The Potentiometer
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Temperature Sensing Circuit
Circuit
Laws (Experiment 5)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
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Superposition Law
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Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
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Kirchhoff’s Current Law
Circuit
Theorems (Experiment 6)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
- Thevenin’s Theorem
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Norton’s Theorem & Source Transformation
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Maximum Power Transfer
Resistive
Op-Amp Circuits (Experiment 7)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
- Op-amp Bias
- Comparator Circuit
- Inverting Amplifier
- Non-Inverting Amplifier
- Adder Circuit
Transient
Response in RC Circuits (Experiment 8)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
- Capacitor Types and Properties
- Capacitor Markings
- Capacitance of Capacitive Networks
- Observing the Transient Response of an RC Circuit
- Measuring the Time Constant
- Capacitor-Based Voltage Integrator
Transient
Response in RL Circuits (Experiment 9)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
- Inductance and Inductor Types
- Observing the Transient Response of an RL Circuit: Large R
- Observing the Transient Response of an RL Circuit: Small R
- Measuring the Time Constant
- Inductor-Based Voltage Integrator
Transient Response of Second-Order Circuits (Experiment 10)
Pre-lab, lab
activity and post-lab
- Oscillation and Energy Exchange in an LC Circuit
- The Series RLC
Circuit: Under-Damped Response
- The Series RLC
Circuit: Over-Damped Response
- The Series RLC
Circuit: Critically-Damped Response
AC
Steady-State Response (Experiment 11)
Pre-lab, lab activity and post-lab
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AC Steady-State Operation
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Measuring the Phase Difference
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Time-Domain to Phasor Domain Transformation
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AC Excitation of an Ideal Inductor
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AC Excitation of a Series RL Circuit
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AC Excitation of a Series RC Circuit
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AC Excitation of a Series RLC Circuit
Electric
Filters (Experiment 12)
Pre-lab, lab activity and post-lab
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The Transfer Function
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Magnitude and Phase Plots
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Low-Pass Filter
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High-Pass Filter
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Band-Pass Filter
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Notch Filter
Probe Calibration (Appendix A)
Resistor Color Code (Appendix B)
Standard Resistor Values (Appendix C)
Standard Capacitor Values (Appendix D)
Standard Inductor Values (Appendix E)
Lissajous Patterns (Appendix F)
Multisim Circuit Simulator (Appendix G)
LM741 Op-Amp Data Sheet (Appendix H)
Kit Components (Appendix I)
Instrument Manuals:
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Rigol DG1022A Function Generator
