Course Plan:
Unit : 01
Work, Power and Energy
Introduction, Heating effect of electric current, Joules Law, Unit of Heat, Thermal Efficiency, Quantity of electricity, Electric Power, Electric Energy, Units in SI system.
DC Circuits and Resistance
Ohm`s law, Conductor, Insulator, Semi-conductors, classification of resistance, temperature coefficient of resistance, Combination of resistances, Resistance in series-parallel, KCL, KVL, Bridge circuit.
Unit : 02
Network Theorems
Ideal and practical voltage and current sources, Cramer`s Rule, Mesh and Nodal analysis . Source transformation. Star delta transformation. Superposition theorem, Thevevnins’s theorem Norton’s theorem, maximum power transfer theorem.
Unit : 03
Electrostatics and Capacitance
Fundamental laws of electrostatics, absolute and relative permittivity, electric field, electric flux, electric field intensity, electric flux density, electric potential, potential difference, potential gradient, dielectric strength and breakdown potential, capacitor and capacitance, permittivity, capacitance of parallel plate capacitor, variable capacitor, capacitors in series, capacitor in parallel, energy storage in capacitor, charging and discharging of capacitor, types of capacitors.
Unit : 04
Magnetic Circuits
Magnetic field, Coulomb`s law, magnetic field due to current carrying conductor, magnetic circuit, composite magnetic circuit, leakage flux, comparison between electric and magnetic circuit, B-H curve. Magnetic hysteresis
Electromagnetic Induction
Laws of electromagnetic induction, types of induced emf, coefficient of coupling, inductor in series and parallel.