Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
4616IYO-SEP-PAR
Aims
To enhance knowledge and understanding of the essential mathematics underpinning electrical and electronic engineering.
To develop intellectual abilities in selecting and applying appropriate circuit analysis techniques for analysing various electrical and electronic circuits.
To introduce passive electronic components and understand their operating characteristics.
To introduce the operating principles of single-phase transformers and electronic filters.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Understand the fundamental relationships governing electric circuits.
2.
Employ circuit analysis techniques to solve series, parallel and series parallel dc and ac circuits.
3.
Understand the different powers in ac circuits and perform associated calculations.
4.
Analyse simple three-phase circuits.
5.
Explain the operating principles of single-phase transformers and perform calculation to determine the operating efficiency of transformers.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Passive components, AC circuits and phasors:
Introduction to electric fields, permittivity, Capacitance, impedance of a capacitor. Introduction to magnetic fields, self and mutual inductance, impedance of an inductor. Operating principles of transformers.
Alternating current fundamentals, period, frequency and angular frequency. Peak, and rms values. Complex representation of sinusoidal quantities.
Phasors. Application of complex numbers in simple ac circuits. Powers in ac circuits. Complex-waveforms.
Resonance in simple series ac circuits. Series RLC circuit as a band-pass filter. RC circuits as low-pass and high pass filters.
Circuit analysis techniques, steady-state dc and ac circuit analysis:
Kirchhoff's laws. Voltage and current divider rules.
The superposition principle.
Mesh current analysis. Nodal potential analysis.
Non-ideal current and voltage sources. Source transformations.
Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits. Maximum power transfer theory.
Additional Information:The material delivered in this module will be complimented by the practical skills module where students will undertake practical experiments to reinforce the material delivered in this module.