Electric circuits
BI BM BN BS BEC
N Samaan
4 points * 26 lecture hours, 26 laboratory/tutorial hours * First semester * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: Year-12 mathematics or GAS1601
Resistive circuits: voltage and current sources; dependent sources; Ohm's law; Kirchoff's Laws; resistors in series and in parallel; voltage and current dividers; basic DC meters (the d'Arsonval movement, ammeter, voltmeter and ohmmeter circuits); the potentiometer circuit. Delta-to-wye techniques of circuit analysis: terminology; node-voltage method; mesh-current method; source transformations; Thevenin and Norton equivalents; maximum power transfer; superposition. RI and RC and RLC circuits: inductance and capacitance; series - parallel combinations of L and C; natural and step responses of first-order RL and RC circuits; natural and step responses of RLC circuits. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis: complex numbers; phasor analysis; inductive and capacitive reactances; impedance and admittance; circuit analysis in the phasor domain; phasor diagrams; real and reactive power; complex power; maximum power transfer.
Assessment
Examination: 80% * Practical and laboratory work: 20%
Prescribed texts
Nilsson J W Electric circuits 4th edn, Addison-Wesley, 1993
Recommended texts
Cunningham D R and Stuller J A Basic circuit analysis Houghton Mifflin, 1991
Dorf R C Introduction to electric circuits 2nd edn, Wiley, 1993