Electric Circuits
Introduction
Dr. Jihan Salah
Course Time and Place
Time
You are required to attend 3 hours a week.
Prerequisites:
High-school calculus including simple differential equations, algebra
including complex numbers, and physics.
Textbook:
Nilsson J.W. and Riedel S.: Electric Circuits. 10th Edition. Pearson
Prentice Hall,
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are to:
To Provide students with a strong foundation in the field
of electrical engineering
To impart a sound understanding of basic concepts of
electric circuits
To instruct students in techniques for analyzing electric
circuits
To foster problem solving skills
To promote interaction and communication skills
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students:
Explain concepts of current, voltage, power, and energy,
and their interrelation.
Describe the basic attributes of voltage sources, current
sources, resistors, capacitors, inductors and their
voltage-current relations.
Apply KCL and KVL to analyze basic electric circuits.
Use Thevenin and Norton equivalents to analyze and
design for maximum power transfer
Analyze resistive circuits by the node-voltage method,
mesh-current method, or superposition.
Course Learning Outcomes
Represent circuits in the frequency domain in terms of
phasors and impedances, and determine their steady-
state sinusoidal response.
Compute the different forms of ac power (real, reactive,
complex) in ac circuits and apply the condition for
maximum real power to a load.
Course Learning Outcomes
Analyze three-phase circuits and calculate three-phase
power delivered by a source to wye- or delta-connected
loads.
Analyze circuits that include ideal transformers.
Course Topics
Circuit variables: current, voltage, power, ideal
basic circuit elements, power and energy
(Chapter 1, 2 lectures)
Course Topics
Circuit Elements: Voltage and current sources,
Electrical resistance (Ohms law), Kirchhoff’s laws.
Analysis of a circuit containing dependent
sources. (Chapter 2: 3 lectures)
Course Topics
Simple resistive circuits: Series and parallel
connections of resistors, Voltage and current
divider rules, Voltage and current division,
Wheatstone bridge, -Y transformation.
(Chapter 3, 4 lectures)
Course Topics
Techniques of Circuit Analysis: Node-voltage and
mesh-current methods source transformation, Thevenin
and Norton equivalents, Maximum Power transfer.
(Chapter 4, 8 lectures)
Course Topics
Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance:
Inductor, Capacitors, series-parallel combinations of
Inductors and Capacitances, Mutual Inductance.
(Chapter 6, 3 lectures)
Course Topics
Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis: Sinusoidal source,
sinusoidal response, phasor notation, passive elements in
the frequency domain, Kirchhoff’s law in the frequency
domain, series, parallel, and delta–to–Wye simplifications,
source transformation and Thevenin-Norton equivalent
circuits, Node-voltage and mesh-current methods, and
ideal transformer. (Chapter 9, 5 lectures)
Course Topics
Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations
Instantaneous Power,
Average and Reactive Power,
The rms value
Power Calculations,
Complex Power,
Maximum Power Transfer
(Chapter 10, 5 lectures)
Course Topics
Three-Phase Circuits: Balanced three-phase voltages,
three-phase voltage sources, wye-wye and delta-wye
circuits, power calculations in balanced three-phase
circuits, measuring average power in three-phase circuits.
(Chapter 11: 4 lectures)