Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives On completion of this subject students should have further developed their knowledge of circuit theory, and will be expected to be capable of performing a wide range of useful circuit analysis calculations.
Synopsis General circuit analysis: mesh current/node voltage methods; Thevenin/Norton equivalents; instantaneous and average power. AC steady state: phasors; impedance; circuit theorems in phasor domain; nodal and mesh analysis in phasor domain. Instantaneous, average, reactive and apparent power; magnetically coupled circuits. Three-phase balanced and unbalanced circuits, power and measurements. Resonance: series and parallel circuits; bandwidth; quality factor; network frequency response. Electric transients: differential equations and the characteristic equation; source free and driven RLC circuits. Two-port networks: equivalent circuits for two-port networks; z, y, h and g parameters. Computer-aided circuit analysis: PSPICE software package.
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 80% + Assignments and practical work: 20%