General Engineering Courses

ENGR 2421 - Electric Circuits I Lab.

Note: some of the experiments contain Greek letters (S) which used the WP Greek Century font.  If you do not see an upper case Greek omega in the previous ( ) then your computer does not have this font.  Most of the experiments have been updated to use the Symbol font, which should be on most computers.  The following should be an upper case Greek omega using the Symbol font:  (W).

Download a circuit simulation program

ASU Engineering Standards Document

Data Sheet for BK Precision model 2880A digital multimeter

Data sheet for the Keithley model 169 Digital Multimeter

Measurement errors

Resistor Color Code
Resistance calculator

Micro-Cap tutorial

When you print the information for each lab., be sure to also print any additional reference material that is indicated by links in the information.

Week 1 - Exp 1 Measurement and Calculations of D.C. Electrical Quantities

Week 2 - Exp 2 Kirchoff's Laws

Week 3 -  Exp 3  Series-Parallel Circuits

Week 4 -Exp 4  Meter Loading Effects

Week 5 - Exp 5   Nodal and Mesh Analysis

Week 6 - Exp 6   Linearity and the Superposition Principle

Week 7 -  Lab Exam 1 Feb 27, 2008

Week 8 -  Exp 7  Thévenin's Theorem

Week 9 -Exp 8 Transient response of an R-C circuit

Week 10 - Exp 9  Using an Oscilloscope

Week 11 - Exp 10 Transient Response of R-C and R-L Circuits

Week 12 - Exp 11 Sinusoidal response of R-C circuits

Week 13 - Exp 12 RLC Resonant Circuit

Week 14 - Lab Exam 2

Useful Math Formulas

Complex Numbers and Arithmetic 

This page last updated 25 February 2008.