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Course Info   Spring 2013                               

Instructor:
Dr. Neil Cotter
Email: necotter@ece.utah.edu
Office: MEB 3104

TA Contact Information

Syllabus | (pdf)

College Guidelines (pdf)

Schedule | (html UTF-8 encoding) | (pdf)

Calendar (pdf) | (xls)

Lab Tour Flyer for Friday, March 1 10:00-3:00 pm (pdf) | (Google Doc)

Study Guides                               

Conceptual Tools

Matllab¨ Primer R2012a (pdf)

Lectures                               

• Symbols, Kirchhoff's Laws, Ohm's Law (pdf)
• Resistance, Power, Meters (pdf)
• Source Models, Thevenin Equivalents, Max Power Transfer (pdf)
• Basic AC, Power Transmission, Periodic Waveforms (pdf)
• Signals, Amplitude and Frequency Modulation, Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Pulse Width Modulation (pdf)
• Capacitors, RC Circuits, Inductors (pdf)
• Op Amps, Linear (Negative Feedback) Circuits, Nonlinear Circuits (Comparator and Schmitt Trigger) (pdf)
• Feedback Systems (pdf)
• Digital Logic Gates, Flip-Flops, Binary Numbers (pdf)
• Phasors and Impedances (pdf)
• Phasor Examples (pdf)

• Sound Overview (htm) | (ppt)
• Lecture M1

• Lecture M2

• Lecture M3
• Advanced Indexing

• Lecture M4

• Lecture M5
• my_script.m Script file to create a sound effect.
• my_script2.m Script file to process student's exam scores.

• Lecture M6
• bumps.m

• Lecture M7

• Lecture M8

• Lecture M9
• real_fft.m
• chop_fft.m
• butter_filter.m

• Lecture M10
• R_code.m
• rand_int.m

• Lecture M11
• parallel_R.m
• standard_R.m
• vibrato.m (A script file for warble sound; for fun)

• Lecture M12
• dig_filter.m
• r2p.m

• Lecture M13
• wr_str_file.m
• rd_str_file.m
• image_proc.m
• Matlab¨ functions for reading and writing files
• dlmread Read data in plain text format with specified delimiter character
• dlmwrite
• imread Read Images in .jpg, gif, bmp, and other formats
• imwrite
• wavread Read Audio files in .wav format
• wavwrite

Homework                               

Homework with no name:

• HW_P0_NoName.pdf (pdf)
• HW_P1_NoName.pdf (pdf)
• HW_M1_a_NoName.pdf (pdf)
• HW_M1_b_NoName.pdf (pdf)
• HW_M1_c_NoName.pdf (pdf)
• HW_M7_NoName.pdf (pdf)

• HW errata (pdf)
• HW 1 (pdf)
• HW 2 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 3 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 4 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 5 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 6 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 7 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 8 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 9 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 10 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 11 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW 12 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)

• HW D1 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW D2 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW D3 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)

• HW P0 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW P1 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW P2 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)

• HW M1 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M2 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M3 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M4 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M5 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M6 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)
• HW M7 (pdf)
  • solution (pdf)

Labs                               

• Course labs:
• Lab 1 Intro (pdf) | Matlab Plotting (pdf)
• Lab 2 Battery (pdf)
• Lab 3 Scope and ESC (pdf)
• Lab 4 Op Amps and PWM (pdf)
  • Lab 4 PWM Circuit Explanation (pdf)
• Lab 4b PWM Spice Simulation (pdf)
• Lab 5 Servo (pdf)
  • Lab 5 Servo Appendix (pdf)
  • Lab 5 Servo Pict (jpg)
  • Lab 5 Servo Schematic (pdf)
  • Lab 5 Servo Schematic - Detailed (pdf)
• Lab 6 Logic (pdf)
  • Lab 6 Blank Breadboard - Large (pdf)
  • Lab 6 Blank Breadboard (pdf)
  • Totally Blank Breadboard (pdf)
• Lab 7 Counters (pdf)
  • Lab 7 Old (pdf)
  • Lab 7 Blank Breadboard - Large (pdf)
  • Circuit for TA's only (pdf)
• Lab 8 Audio (pdf)
• Lab M1 | (pdf)
  • Matlab¨ scripts for Lab M1:
    • ah.m
    • ay.m
    • chop.m
    • commands.m
    • echoes.m
    • highpass.m
    • listen.m
    • loadhan.m
    • louder.m
    • lowpass.m
    • noise.m
    • oo.m
    • phoneme.m
    • softer.m
    • spectrum.m
    • speedup.m
    • warm.m
    • waveform.m
• Lab M2 | (pdf)
• Lab M3 | (pdf)
• Lab M4 | (pdf)

Exams                               

• Exam 1
  • solution: prob 1 (pdf)   2 (pdf)   3 (pdf)   4 (pdf)   5 (pdf)
• Exam 2
  • solution: prob 1 (pdf)   2 (pdf)   3 (pdf)
• Exam 3
  • solution: prob 1 (pdf)   2 (pdf)   3 (pdf)   4 (pdf)   5 (pdf)
• Exam 4
  • solution: prob 1 (pdf)   2 (pdf)   3 (pdf)   4-6 (pdf)   7-10 (pdf)
• Final Exam
  • Version 1 solution: prob 1 (pdf)   2 (pdf)   3 (pdf)   4 (pdf)   5 (pdf)   6 (pdf)   7 (pdf)   8 (pdf)

Practice Exams                               

• Practice Exam 1 (pdf)
  • solution:    prob 1 (pdf)    prob 2 (pdf)    prob 3 (pdf)    prob 4 (pdf)    prob 5 (pdf)
• Practice Exam 2 | (pdf)
  • solution:    Solution | (pdf)
• Practice Exam 3 (pdf)
  • solution:    prob 1 (pdf)     prob 2a (pdf)     prob 2b (pdf)     prob 2c (pdf)     prob 3a (pdf)     prob 3b (pdf)     prob 3c (pdf)     prob 4 (pdf)
• Practice Exam 4 (pdf)
  • solution:    probs 1-10
• Practice Final Exam (pdf)
  • solution:    prob 1 (pdf)    prob 2 (pdf)    prob 3 (pdf)    prob 4 (pdf)    prob 5 (pdf)    prob 6 (pdf)    prob 7 (pdf)    prob 8 (pdf)    prob 9 (pdf)

Matlab                               

• Matlab Intro
• Saving scope data on a PC
• Reading scope data into Matlab
• MathWorks (Type 'tutorial' in search box)

Circuit Simulator                               

• Java Circuit Simulator

Matlab                               

• online U of U Math lectures