1. Fundamentals of Electrical Components and Circuits

1. Fundamentals of Electrical Components and Circuits

• 1.1 Basic Concepts

  • Ohm’s Law

  • Electric voltage, current, power and energy

  • Conducting and insulating materials

  • Series and parallel electric circuits

  • Star-delta and delta-star conversion

  • Kirchhoff’s laws

  • Linear and non-linear circuits

  • Bilateral and unilateral circuits

  • Active and passive circuits

• 1.2 Network Theorems

  • Superposition Theorem

  • Thevenin’s Theorem

  • Norton’s Theorem

  • Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

  • Analysis of R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits

  • Resonance in AC series and parallel circuits

  • Active and reactive power

• 1.3 Alternating Current Fundamentals

  • Generation of alternating voltages and currents

  • AC equations and waveforms

  • Average, peak, and RMS values

  • Three-phase systems

• 1.4 Electric Circuit Response (Transient Analysis)

  • Steady-state analysis of R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits

  • Transient analysis of R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits

• 1.5 Analysis of One-Port and Two-Port Networks

  • Transfer functions, poles and zeros, and their relationship to system response

  • One-port passive circuits: impedance and admittance functions

  • Two-port parameters:

    • Short-circuit admittance parameters

    • Open-circuit impedance parameters

    • Transmission parameters

    • Hybrid parameters

  • Inter-relationships between two-port parameters

  • Series, parallel, and cascade networks

• 1.6 Synthesis of One-Port and Two-Port Networks

  • Hurwitz polynomials and positive real functions

  • Foster and Cauer canonical forms

  • Synthesis of RL, RC, and LC networks

  • Resistively terminated active and passive two-port networks

  • Ladder networks