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Final Grade: HW 20%, final exam 80%

Syllabus:

Part I: Introduction to circuit theory

Lumped elements, resistors, capacitors, inductors, sources, Kirchhoff's circuit laws, series and parallel connections, superposition principle, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, power and energy, first- and second-order circuits, ordinary differential equations and their solution via Laplace transform, transfer function, sinusoidal steady state, impedance and admittance.

Part II: Introduction to linear systems

Linear time invariant systems, impulse response, convolution, the frequency response, Bode plots.

Part II: Introduction to control theory

Open- and closed-loop control, steady state errors, Nyquist stability criterion, phase and gain margins, control design using phase-lead and phase-lag networks.