Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | CIRCUIT ANALYSIS | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | AELE221 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | AMAT111 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
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Course Contents | Introduction to circuit theory and analysis: system of units and the scientific notation. Quantities of current, voltage, resistance and their units as well as the independent and dependent voltage sources and current sources. Definitions of current and voltage. Hydraulic analogies to current and voltage. Reference polarities and actual polarities. Analysis of circuits: What a circuit element is? Resistors and Ohm’s Law. Equivalent circuits. Definitions of series and parallel. Series and parallel resistors. Kirchoff's laws, Mesh and nodal analysis: The steps for writing the Node-Voltage Equations. Tips on picking the best reference node. How to handle dependent sources. Voltage sources in the Node-Voltage Method. Voltage sources in series with an element. Voltage sources between reference node and another essential node. Voltage sources between two non-reference essential nodes. The steps for writing the Mesh-Current. Equations. How to handle dependent sources. The steps for writing the Mesh-Current Equations. How to handle dependent sources. Thevenin's and Norton's theorem: Introduction to Th�venin’s Theorem. Finding Th�venin’s equivalents. Examples of finding a Th�venin’s equivalent. Introduction to Norton’s Theorem. Finding Norton’s equivalents. Examples of finding a Norton’s equivalent. Capacitive and inductive circuit transient and steady state analysis. SPICE simulations using a variety of popular commercial software packages. Laboratory Work: Experimental verification of circuit theorems. Series dc circuits. Parallel dc circuits. . Series parallel d.c. circuits. Methods of analysis. Superposition Principle (dc). Thevenin’s Theorem and MPT. Norton’s Theorem and Source Conversions | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The course is structured around lectures, laboratory exercises and individual work. During the lectures, students are encouraged to participate in discussions enabling the exchange of ideas and examples. Laboratory exercises are handed to students and their solutions are discussed at laboratory periods. Additional tutorial time at the end of each lecture is provided to students as well as additional notes for each section of the course and worksheets, which process in the lab or as homework. Students are expected to demonstrate the necessary effort to become confident with the different concepts and topics of the course | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |