Continuous assessment: A series of closed book, timed, online tests.

Portfolio

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&#39;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&#39;s and Norton&#39;s equivalent circuits. Maximum power transfer theory.

Engineering Circuit Analysis - 4616IYO

Engineering Circuit Analysis

Employ circuit analysis techniques to solve series, parallel and series parallel dc and ac circuits.

Explain the operating principles of single-phase transformers and perform calculation to determine the operating efficiency of transformers.

Understand the different powers in ac circuits and perform associated calculations.

Understand the fundamental relationships governing electric circuits.