GEG1503

Electric circuits

Samaan

4 points
* 26 lecture hours and 26 laboratory/tutorial hours
* First semester
* Gippsland/distance
* Prerequisites: Year 12 Mathematics or GAS1601

Objectives To provide students with an understanding of the fundamental principles of electrical engineering and a familiarity with the terminology used by electrical engineering

Synopsis Resistive circuits: voltage and current sources; dependent sources; Ohm's law; Kirchoff's Laws; resistors in series and in parallel; basic DC meters, d'Arsonval movement; potentiometer circuits. Delta-to-wye equivalent circuit. Circuit analysis: node-voltage method; mesh-current method; Thevenin and Norton equivalents; maximum power transfer; superposition. Inductance and capacitance; response of RL, RC and RLC circuits. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis: complex numbers; phasor analysis; impedance and admittance; phasor diagrams; real and reactive power; complex power.

Assessment Examination: 75%
* Practical and laboratory work: 25%

Prescribed texts

Nilsson J W and Riedal S A Electric circuits 5th edn, Addison-Wesley, 1996

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