Course Outlines

The Topic

Lecture

Duration

(Hours)

► Introduction: General organization of the course. Grading and text book. Orientation.

► Motivation: Generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electrical energy. Electronics as a mean of information and control via electron flow. Everyday life examples.

1

► Fundamental Electrical Quantities: Charge, current and voltage. Electrical power and energy.

1

► Elementary Circuit Analysis: Resistance and Ohm’s law. Kirchhoff’s current law. Kirchhoff’s voltage law. Voltage divider’s rule. Current divider’s rule.

4

► Electrical Measuring Devices: The Ohmmeter. The Ammeter. The Voltmeter.

1

► Dc Analysis Of Simple Resistive Circuits: Mesh current method, node voltage method, the principle of superposition, dissipation and power loss in resistive circuits.

3

► Energy-Storage Circuit Elements: Capacitors and inductors. Sinusoidal steady-state concepts. Average and RMS values Phasors and impedances. Complex variables and their applications in the phasor solution of circuits with sinusoidal excitation. 

5

► Semiconductors And Diodes: The semiconductor diode and its circuit model. Rectifier circuit. The full wave rectifier. The bridge rectifier. Zener diodes. Signal processing applications: the diode clipper, the diode clamp, photodiodes.

3

► Transistors: Transistor as an amplifier and as a switch. Operation of the bipolar junction transistors.

2

► Operational Amplifiers: Ideal amplifier. The operational amplifier. Active filters. Integrator and differentiator circuits. Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers. Comparators.

2

► AC Power: Generation, transmission, distribution of AC power. Power in AC circuits. The ideal transformer and impedance reflection. 3-phase power. Balanced 3-phase circuit analysis.

4

► Grounding And Safety: Safety precautions against high voltage. Dielectric strength and breakdown voltage.

1

► Introduction To Electric Machines: Rotating electric machines. Performance characteristics of electric machines. Magnetic circuit laws.

2

► Direct Current Machines: Physical structure of DC machines. DC machine models. DC generators. DC motors.

3