ELE2231

Electrical networks

T Czaszejko

3 points
* 26 lecture/tutorial hours and 13 laboratory hours
* First semester
* Caulfield
* Prerequisites: ENC1202
* Corequisites: MAC2901

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 power measurements. 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%

Recommended texts

Nilsson J W Electric circuits 4th edn, Addison-Wesley, 1993