Electrical Circuits I

Outline Syllabus:

• Lumped circuits and Kirchhoff's laws
• Circuit components and their characteristics
• Simple RLC circuits
• Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits
• Nodal and mesh analysis of networks
• Thevenin's, Norton's, Superposition and maximum power transfer theorems applied to simple circuits
• RC, RL and RLC circuits and their response to step, impulse and zero excitations
• Zero state, sinusoidal steady-state analysis
• Resonance
• Single and three phase circuits
• Power in three phase systems

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites:

• Electricity and Magnetism (Physics II)
• Differential Equations

Co-requisites:

• None