Course Content
Introduction to different areas in EE, historical development and important milestones, standardization and recent trends. Laws of electromagnetism, Lumped and distributed parameters. Charge, current, voltage, power and energy. Independent and dependent current and voltage sources. Linear and non-linear lumped elements. Ideal resistors, capacitors and inductors. Ohm Law. Power dissipation. Illustrative examples of real-life elements and their approximate representation.Electrical circuits. Kirchoffs voltage and Current Laws. Resistive circuits. Node and Mesh analysis.Network theorems (Thevenin, Norton, Superposition) and their utility in circuit analysis. Power balance: Tellegen theorem. Maximum Power Theorem.Transient and dc steady state analysis of circuits with capacitors and inductors, specifically R-L, R-C, R-L-C circuits.Response of circuits to sinusoidal excitation. Sinusoidal steady state analysis. Phasors. AC power analysis: Complex power, active and reactive power, power factor. Network Theorems applied to sinusoidal steady state situations. Balanced three-phase systems; Star and Delta Connections.Magnetically coupled circuits self and mutual inductance, dot convention, ideal transformer.Frequency Response of circuits: Resonance, quality factor. Filters Response to non-sinusoidal periodic inputs: Fourier Series, harmonics.Two port networks. Admittance matrix representation. Reciprocity.Examples of real-life circuits in various applications (e.g., filters, amplifiers, ICs, power networks etc.) Examples of circuit analysis software.
Text / References
- 1 W.A.Atherton, From Compass to Computer: History of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Macmillan International Higher Education, 1984.
- 2 W. H. Hayt Jr, J. E. Kemmerly, J. D. Phillips, S.M. Durbin, Engineering Circuit Analysis, 10th edition (Indian Edition), McGraw-Hill, 2024.
- 3 C. K. Alexander, Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill2022.