Electrical Circuits I
Course Code: EEE 111
Credit Hour: 3
Course Group: Core Courses
Circuit variables and elements: Voltage, current, power, energy, independent and dependent sources, resistance. Basic laws: Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws. Simple resistive circuits: Series and parallel circuits, voltage and current division, wye-delta transformation. Nodal and mesh analysis including supernode and supermesh.Source transformation, Thevenin’s, Norton’s and superposition theorems with applications in circuits having independent and dependent sources, maximum power transfer condition and reciprocity theorem. Energy storage elements: Inductors and capacitors, series parallel combination of inductors and capacitors. Responses of RL and RC circuits: Natural and step responses.Magnetic quantities and variables: Flux, permeability and reluctance, magnetic field strength, magnetic potential, flux density, magnetization curve. Laws in magnetic circuits: Ohm’s law and Ampere’s circuital law, analysis of series, parallel and series- parallel magnetic circuit.
Reference Books:
- Alexander and Sadiku: Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
- R L Boylestad: Introductory Circuit Analysis
- R C. Dorf: Introduction to Electric Circuits
- R M Kerchner and G F Corcoran: Alternating Current Circuits