Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Course from Rice University) free download online
Title: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Course from Rice University) Author(s): Don H. Johnson, J.D. Wise, Jr. Pages: 270 Publisher: Publication date: 1999 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Description: Note: Home page: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec241/
The course focuses on the creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means. Elementary signal theory; time- and frequency-domain analysis; Sampling Theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes. Laboratory demonstrating the principles of information management by electronic means.
Prerequisites: Math 101, 102.
Course Outline
Elements of signal and system theory
* Digital and analog information
* Block diagrams: sources, systems, sinks
Signal and system analysis
* Analog
o Signal theory: time-domain concepts of amplitude, delay, superposition
o Representation of signals by electronic quantities (electric, optical)
o Elementary circuit theory
+ Circuit laws; series and parallel configurations
+ Equivalent circuits
o Basic analog circuit building block: the op-amp
o Frequency Domain
+ Fourier series; signal decomposition; notion of bandwidth
+ Sampling theorem
* Digital
o A/D conversion; amplitude quantization; data rate
o Discrete-time signals and systems
Information Transmission
* Analog (AM) communication
o Modulation and demodulation
o Noise (SNR, WGN)
o Linear filters for noise reduction
* Digital communication
o Entropy and Shannon's Coding Theorem
o Lossless and lossy compression; redundancy
o Channel coding; error correcting codes; transmission rate
o Capacity; Shannon's Noisy Channel Coding Theorem
Fundamentals of Communication System Design
This is the first course in a two course sequence, the second being ELEC 242.
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Title: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Course from Rice University)