Circuit analysis practice — Thevenin/Norton equivalent circuits
1. Introduction
Refer to day05: Thevenin / Norton equivalent circuits for more background information. That section also includes further links to other resources.
2. Tasks
Submit a PDF or an ordered (by filename) collection of files of your work to Blackboard. This can be 3 PDFs of your scanned work plus the photo from § 2.2, a single PDF with everything in order, or some other reasonable digital form.
2.1. Three garytuttle.ee practice problems
Generate three (3) different problems from:
http://garytuttle.ee/circuits/practice/thevenin.php
and find both the Thevein and Norton equivalent of the circuit, reporting all of:
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VTh
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INor
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RTh (same as RNor)
That site generates from a set of 12 different schematics and random numbers (E12 series passives). Your three problems must be three different circuit topologies.
Your scanned paper submission should begin with the circuit schematic with labels and component values. Then sucessively document the process you used to solve the problem, this should include:
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English words, phrases, or a sentence,
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re-drawn schematics,
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math equations and expressions,
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arrows and boxes helping show the flow of information and calculation,
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and/or other communication features as appropriate.
2.2. Photograph of relevant reference material
To reinforce the recommendation that you review what this Thevenin/Norton equivalent thing is all about, we have this deliverable.
Take a photo or screenshot of one of the circuit theory references you looked at for this assignment. Include this photo with a brief description in your Blackboard submission.
It could be your ECE 263 or 264 textbook, one of the other recommended resources from day05, or another textbook you’ve found.
3. References
Besides the links in day05 and any other linear circuit theory textbook or reference you have used in the past, here are a few more:
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2.18 - Thevenin Equivalent and Norton Equivalent Circuits chapter from Ultimate Electronics by the makers of CircuitLab.
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Circuit Analysis and Design by Ulaby, Maharbiz, and Furze — this was the (free) textbook used in the Prof. White version of ECE 264. This particular PDF is better than the original as it includes proper PDF bookmarks for the chapters. Chapter 3. Analysis Techniques is the “bag of tricks,” including 3-6 Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits and is pretty good.