131201 CIRCUIT THEORY L T P C
(Common to EEE, EIE and ICE Branches) 3 1 0 4
UNIT I BASIC CIRCUITS ANALYSIS 12
Ohm’s Law – Kirchoffs laws – DC and AC Circuits – Resistors in series and parallel circuits – Mesh current
and node voltage method of analysis for D.C and A.C. circuits.
UNIT II NETWORK REDUCTION AND NETWORK THEOREMS FOR DC AND AC CIRCUITS:
12
Network reduction: voltage and current division, source transformation – star delta conversion.
Thevenins and Novton & Theorem – Superposition Theorem – Maximum power transfer theorem –
Reciprocity Theorem.
UNIT III RESONANCE AND COUPLED CIRCUITS 12
Series and paralled resonance – their frequency response – Quality factor and Bandwidth - Self and
mutual inductance – Coefficient of coupling – Tuned circuits – Single tuned circuits.
UNIT IV TRANSIENT RESPONSE FOR DC CIRCUITS 12
Transient response of RL, RC and RLC Circuits using Laplace transform for DC input and A.C. with
sinusoidal input.
UNIT V ANALYSING THREE PHASE CIRCUITS 12
Three phase balanced / unbalanced voltage sources – analysis of three phase 3-wire and 4-wire circuits
with star and delta connected loads, balanced & un balanced – phasor diagram of voltages and currents
– power and power factor measurements in three phase circuits.
TOTAL :60
PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. William H. Hayt Jr, Jack E. Kemmerly and Steven M. Durbin, “Engineering Circuits Analysis”,Tata
McGraw Hill publishers, 6th edition, New Delhi, (2002).
2. Sudhakar A and Shyam Mohan SP, “Circuits and Network Analysis and Synthesis”,Tata McGraw
Hill, (2007).
REFERENCES:
1. Paranjothi SR, “Electric Circuits Analysis,” New Age International Ltd., New Delhi, (1996).
2. Joseph A. Edminister, Mahmood Nahri, “Electric circuits”, Schaum’s series, Tata McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi (2001).
3. Chakrabati A, “Circuits Theory (Analysis and synthesis), Dhanpath Rai & Sons, New Delhi, (1999).
4. Charles K. Alexander, Mathew N.O. Sadik, “Fundamentals of Electric Circuits”, Second Edition,
McGraw Hill, (2003).
147201 ELECTRIC CIRCUITS AND ELECTRON DEVICES L T PC
(For ECE, CSE, IT and Biomedical Engg. Branches) 3 1 0 4
UNIT I CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES 12
Kirchoff’s current and voltage laws – series and parallel connection of independent sources – R, L and C
– Network Theorems – Thevenin, Superposition, Norton, Maximum power transfer and duality – Star-
delta conversion.
UNIT II TRANSIENT RESONANCE IN RLC CIRCUITS 12
Basic RL, RC and RLC circuits and their responses to pulse and sinusoidal inputs – frequency response –
Parallel and series resonances – Q factor – single tuned and double tuned circuits.
UNIT III SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES 12
Review of intrinsic & extrinsic semiconductors – Theory of PN junction diode – Energy band structure –
current equation – space charge and diffusion capacitances – effect of temperature and breakdown
mechanism – Zener diode and its characteristics.
UNIT IV TRANSISTORS 12
Principle of operation of PNP and NPN transistors – study of CE, CB and CC configurations and
comparison of their characteristics – Breakdown in transistors – operation and comparison of N-Channel
and P-Channel JFET – drain current equation – MOSFET – Enhancement and depletion types – structure
and operation – comparison of BJT with MOSFET – thermal effect on MOSFET.
UNIT V SPECIAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
(Qualitative Treatment only) 12
Tunnel diodes – PIN diode, varactor diode – SCR characteristics and two transistor equivalent model –
UJT – Diac and Triac – Laser, CCD, Photodiode, Phototransistor, Photoconductive and Photovoltaic cells –
LED, LCD.
TOTAL : 60 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Joseph A. Edminister, Mahmood, Nahri, “Electric Circuits” – Shaum series,Tata McGraw Hill,
(2001)
2. S. Salivahanan, N. Suresh kumar and A. Vallavanraj, “Electronic Devices and Circuits”,Tata
McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, (2008).
3. David A. Bell, “Electronic Devices and Circuits”, Oxford University Press, 5 th Edition, (2008).
REFERENCES:
1. Robert T. Paynter, “Introducing Electronics Devices and Circuits”, Pearson Education, 7 th
Education, (2006).
2. William H. Hayt, J.V. Jack, E. Kemmebly and steven M. Durbin, “Engineering Circuit
Analysis”,Tata McGraw Hill, 6th Edition, 2002.
3. J. Millman & Halkins, Satyebranta Jit, “Electronic Devices & Circuits”,Tata McGraw Hill, 2 nd
Edition, 2008.