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Homework #1
1. This problem needs to be submitted as text on CANVAS.
Please tell me about yourself:
a. What part of electrical engineering particularly interests you? (More ideas? Check out:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/ )
b. What have you heard about this class? (Haven't heard anything about it yet? Check out:
https://utah.instructure.com/courses/245932/wiki/resources-what-students-should-know-about-the-flippedclassroom)
c. How do you like to learn things? (Lectures, Interactive Software, Web research, Reading (textbook and
other), Hands on, Demos, Studying with friends or alone, etc.) (Want to know more about your learning
style (and get extra credit)? Check out: Find Your Learning Style )
d. Tell me something non-technical about yourself (a favorite hobby, where you are from, your dreams
and aspirations, anything that tells me WHO you are)
2. Watch the following videos and label the video as being in Power, Control, Electronics,
Microelectronics, Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Instrumentation, and/or Computers (some
may be under multiple subdisciplines).
a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGY0xWSBqDw&feature=player_embedded
b. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgytYDJ8s8E&feature=player_embedded
c. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-THRPZW8k8o&feature=player_embedded
d. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiL_8SugsI&feature=player_embedded
e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GlL-h4IMgFk
f. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zztmwjUvF0&feature=player_embedded
g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ058l3rZ64
3.
a) Perform the following calculations.
Write the answers with appropriate prefixes
(such as , m, k etc.) for engineering units:
i) I = 1mA+100𝜇A
ii) 𝑅 = 4.7𝑘Ω + 0.120𝑀Ω
iii) V = 120mV+0.2V
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b) Convert:
i) 4.2mm to 𝜇𝑚
ii) 173nm to 𝜇𝑚
iii) 4200m to km
iv) 120km to Mm
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4.
a)
b)
c)
d)
For the circuit below,
Identify and label all distinct nodes.
Which of those nodes are extraordinary nodes?
Identify all combinations of 2 or more circuit elements that are connected in series.
Identify all combinations of 2 or more circuit elements that are connected in parallel.
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a)
b)
c)
d)
For the circuit below,
Identify and label all distinct nodes.
Which of those nodes are extraordinary nodes?
Identify all combinations of 2 or more circuit elements that are connected in series.
Identify all combinations of 2 or more circuit elements that are connected in parallel.
6. Find the absolute voltages at all the labeled nodes in the circuit below. Hint: Start at the bottom and
work upwards.
9V
+
-4V
+
1V
+
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7. Find the absolute voltages at all the labeled nodes in the circuit below.
8. Use the circuit shown above in Problem 7. Label a voltage with polarity across each resistor
arbitrarily. Find each of these labeled voltages for every resistor in the circuit above.
9. Given the voltages stated below, state the values for Vs and 𝑉3 .
10. Given the voltages stated below, state the values for Vs, 𝑉2 and 𝑉4 .
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