Principles of Electrical Engineering (ECE) : Unit 1 DC Circuits

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Principles of Electrical Engineering

(ECE)

Unit 1 DC Circuits
Ohms law, Kirhoff’s laws, Types of sources, Network elements, Voltage - Current Relationship
for Passive Elements, Source Transformation, Network Reduction Techniques: Series, Parallel,
Series Parallel, Star-to-Delta and Delta-to-Star Transformation, Analysis with dependent current
and voltage sources. Node and Mesh analysis including super-mesh and super-node analysis.

Unit 2 AC Circuits
Representation of sinusoidal waveforms, peak and rms values, phasor representation, real power,
reactive power, apparent power, power factor, Analysis of single-phase ac circuits consisting of
R, L, C, RL, RC, RLC combinations (series and parallel),Concept of Resonance in series &
parallel circuits, bandwidth and quality factor, Three-phase balanced circuits, voltage and current
relations in star and delta connections.

Unit 3 Network Theorems & DC Transients


Superposition, Thevenin’s, Norton’s, and Maximum Power transfer theorems for DC excitations.
Transient response of RL, RC & RLC circuits for DC excitations- Determination of initial
conditions - Concept of time constant.

Unit 4 DC Machines
Constructional features of DC Machines, Principle and operation of DC Generator - EMF
equation - OCC characteristics of DC generator – principle and operation of DC Motor –
Performance Characteristics of DC Motor - Speed control of DC Motor

Unit 5 Transformers
Concepts of self mutual inductance, Dot Convention in coupled circuits, Principal and operation
of of single phase transformer, ideal and practical transformer, equivalent circuit, losses in
transformers, regulation and efficiency, Auto-transformers. Principle and operation of three
phase induction motor, Types of three phase induction motors.

Text Books:
1. D. P. Kothari and I. J. Nagrath, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, 4th Edition, Tata McGraw
Hill, 2019.
2. D. C. Kulshreshtha, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, 2nd Edition McGraw Hill, 2019.
3. Charles K Alexander and Mathew N O Sadiku, “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits”,
TMH, 2018.

References:
1. L. S. Bobrow, “Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering”, Oxford University Press, 2011.
2. E. Hughes, “Electrical and Electronics Technology”, Pearson, 2016.
3. V. D. Toro, “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals”, Pearson, 2015.
Principles of Electrical Engineering Lab

List of experiments:
1. Basic safety precautions. Introduction and use of measuring instruments – voltmeter,
ammeter, multi-meter, oscilloscope. Real-life resistors, capacitors and inductors.
2. Verification of Kirchhoff laws.
3. Verification of Thevenin’s and Norton theorems.
4. Verification of Maximum Power Transfer theorem
5. Separation of self and mutual inductance in a coupled circuit and determination of
coefficient of coupling.
6. Series and Parallel Resonance
7. OC and SC Test on single phase Transformer
8. To determine the performance characteristics of a Shunt Motor.
9. To determine the performance characteristics of a Compound Motor.
10. To determine speed control of DC Shunt Motor.
11. To determine the load characteristics of a Shunt Generator.

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