[MUSIC] >> Hi, welcome to Linear Circuits. I'm Dr. Bonnie Ferri. I'm a professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I'm also in charge of their undergraduate program there. This is a two part sequence of courses. The first course is on DC analysis, which means constant inputs to the circuit. The second one, AC analysis, is handling sinusoidal inputs. The objectives of this first course is first to introduce you to the different components of a circuit, and show how they can be used in a schematic. And then you will learn several analysis methods for these resistive circuits. Now, we will spend some time going over the engineering problem solving methods. Engineers solve problems by determining what's the most effective, most efficient way of solving them, so we will give you some experience there. We will also introduce you to capacitors and inductors, and show how to analyze circuits with them in there and be able to plot the results. We will introduce you to some practical applications, physical components, for example. And we will have some lab demos, and we will show you how to do these labs at home. We will introduce you to sensors and sensor circuits, and applications of capacitors and inductors. The needed background is calculus, in particular, derivatives and integrals, and looking at vectors and matrices. Some of the advanced optional lessons at the very end, we'll use differential equations. And we want you to be able to solve those, but you won't need a background in differential equations before that. We will show you how to do it. And a little bit of background in physics, like, what is electricity, would help. There are three instructors for this course, myself, Dr. Joy Harris, and Dr. Mary Ann Weitnauer. Both of them are faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. In addition, we will have a number of extra problem videos that were done by Dr. Bruno Frazier, also of our department. And we want you to succeed in this course. First and foremost, you have to be able to complete the graded problems and quizzes, and passing grade for the overall course is 70%. The communications, we want you to use the discussion forum. Go in there and ask and answer questions. And then there's some basic rules of Netiquette, which is to be constructive in your questions and answers, and also to use appropriate language in there. There's more details in the syllabus on Netiquette. Our expectations are that you watch the videos each week, and probably the easiest thing to do is download the handouts and take your notes right on those handouts. Do the in-video quizzes. They don't count towards your grade, but they do help you to understand the material. Seek help if needed, and we are expecting academic honesty in this course. I wish you the best of luck in completing the course, and I'll see you online. [MUSIC]
