MPD 121 ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

Electrical quantities: charge, current, potential, energy, power. Elements of electric networks: resistor, inductor, capacitor, dependent and independent sources, switches. Electric network theorems: Kirchhoff’s laws, voltage and current division, combination of resistors in series and parallel, principle of superposition, combination of inductors in series and parallel, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, Kennelly’s theorem, source transformations, Theevenin's and Norton’s theorems, Millman theorem, symmetric circuits, nodal and loop methods. Elementary transient phenomena. Sinusoidal steady-state analysis of electric circuits: phasors, impedance, power, network theorems. Three-phase circuits: delta and star connection of three-phase windings, power, power factor correction, transformers.

Laboratory: Simulation of electric circuits using the SPICE software