Linear Circuits 1 - 17 - Linearity and Superposition, Part 2

Name: Linear Circuits 1 - 17 - Linearity and Superposition, Part 2
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More Examples of How to Use the Principles of Linearity and Superposition to Simplify Your Circuits

Created byMark Budnik, Mark M. Budnik

Last updated 9/2020

English

What you'll learn

How to use the principles of linearity and superposition to solve linear circuits
How to solve more examples

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 31m total length

Agenda0:07
A Word on Linear Circuits Textbooks....0:19
Review4:17
Linearity and Superposition with Dependent Sources2:12
Apply linearity and superposition by breaking a large circuit into smaller ones, ignore independent sources (zero volt or zero amp), keep dependent sources active, solve each part, and sum results.
Linearity and Superposition Example with a Dependent Source - First Subcircuit5:50
Linearity and Superposition Example with a Dependent Source - Second Subcircuit6:59
Explore linearity and superposition in a second subcircuit with a dependent voltage source controlled by a two-amp current source, using nodal analysis and Kirchhoff's current law.
Another Linearity and Superposition Example with a Dependent Source - From Class10:45
Apply linearity and superposition principle to a circuit with a dependent source. Solve two subcircuits using Kirchhoff's current law and Ohm's law, then sum the results for the final voltage.
Summary0:59
Apply linearity and superposition to linear circuits with voltage sources, current sources, resistors, and dependent sources, ensuring independent sources are included in each subcircuit.

Requirements

High School or College Physics
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Description

Day 17 of Linear Circuits. Linearity and superposition are powerful tools to simplify and solve linear circuits. Using these two principles, we can break our larger circuits into different, but substantially smaller circuits. Then, we can simply add the results of our smaller circuits together to get our final answer. In this lesson, we will review the basic principles introduced in the last lesson, and we will go over even more examples.

The material covers all of the lecture material from an seventeenth lecture in a traditional, sophomore-level linear circuits class.

Who this course is for:

Beginner Engineering and Physics Students