On completion of this subject the student should be able to:
1. Solve problems on the behaviour of simple DC circuits having a combination of resistors and voltage sources;
2. Explain the theories of DC circuit analysis, and solve numerical problems using nodal and mesh analysis, etc.;
3. Explain the behaviour of DC circuits containing resistor and capacitor;
4. Solve simple problems on alternating voltage circuits having active and passive components. Analyse and solve AC circuits involving complex numbers.
5. Analyse the behaviour of AC circuits in resonance and non-resonance conditions, the behaviour of some filter circuits.
Electrical conduction in metals; Resistance and Ohm's law, EMF and internal resistance; Kirchhoff's rules, application to series and parallel circuits, capacitors; Transients in RC circuits, response to DC voltages, time constants, applications to time base and pulse shaping, measurement of high resistance by capacitor leakage; Mesh and nodal analysis of DC circuits, analysis of circuits with current sources and resistors, Thevenin's theorem; Norton's theorem; Millman's theorem; AC voltage across the resistor, capacitor and inductor, active and passive elements; Vector impedance diagrams, complex number representation, power in AC circuits, the resonance condition, nodal and mesh analysis for AC circuits; Filter circuits: active and passive filters, the low pass filter, band pass filter, and high pass filter.
Grob, Bernard, Schultz, Mitchel E., Basic electronics, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA, 2003.
Continuous assessment 40%
Written examination 60% (1×3 hrs.)
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