Introduction and Lumped Circuit Abstraction
What is engineering?
- Purposeful use of science
What is 6.002 about?
- Gainful employment of Maxwell’s equations
- From electrons to digital gates and op-amps
Lumped Matter Disciplines
Lumped Matter Discipline(LMD) Or self imposed constraints:
∂θB∂t=0outside ∂q∂t=0inside elements bulb, wire, batteryLumped circuit abstraction applies when elements adhere to the lumped matter discipline.
- Replace the differential equations with simple algebra using lumped circuit abstraction(LCA)
Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL): The sum of the voltages in a loop is 0.
- KVL : ∑jvj=0 loop
- KCL: ∑jij=0 node
- Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL): The sum of the currents into a node is 0.
Basic Circuit Analysis Method
- LMD(Lumped Matter Discipline):Constraints we impose on ourselves to simplify our analysis.
- lumped circuit element
Method 1: Basic KVL,KCL method of Circuit analysis
- find all element v’s and i’s
- write element v-i relationships(from lumped circuit abstraction)
- write KCL for all nodes.
- write KVL for all loops.
Method 2–Apply element combination rules
Method 3–Node analysis Particular application of KVL,KCL method
- Select reference node(ground) from which voltages are measured.
- Label voltages of remaining nodes with respect to ground.These are the primary unknowns.
- Write KCL for all but the ground node,substituting device laws and KVL.
- Solve for node voltages.
- Back solve for branch voltages and currents.