Fundamentals Of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
This module will enable you to gain a solid foundation in electrical circuit principles and their application in DC and AC circuit analysis. It will also give you an overview of analogue circuit characterisation analysis and design and will introduce you to the principles of digital devices, design, and applications of combinational and sequential logic circuits.The Indicative Content is as follows:DC Circuit analysis: Fundamental units, Derived SI units, Systems of units, standards of measurements, classification of standards. Defining electric current, charge carriers, electrical potential, electrical resistance, Power supplies, Digital multimeter, Ohms law, Power and Energy, Wattmeter. Series circuits, Kirchhoffs voltage law, Introduction to circuit design simulation software package, Parallel circuit, Kirchhoffs current law, Source conversion, Series and parallel network, Thevenins Theorem, Nortons theorem, Maximum power transfer Theorem. AC circuit analysis: Sinusoidal Alternating waveform, Relationship between frequency and time, General format for sinusoidal voltage or current, Phase relation, Average value, Effective value, Response of R, L and C to sinusoidal voltage or current, power factor, Complex numbers, rectangular form, Polar form, Conversion between forms, Phasors, Series and parallel ac circuits. Electric field, Capacitance, charging and discharging phase, Instantaneous value, Capacitors in series and parallel, energy stored by a capacitor, Magnetic Fields, Flux density, Ohms law for magnetic circuits, Magnetizing force, Inductors, Lenzs law, Self-inductance, induced voltage, R-L transients, Storage cycle, Decay phase, Instantaneous values, R-L-C with dc inputs, Energy stored by a conductor.Analogue electronics: Semiconductors, P-N Junction diode, Forward and reverse bias characteristics. Diode applications, half wave rectifier, full wave rectifier, Zener diode, voltage regulator, power supply. Bipolar junction transistor, Transistor currents, Current gain, Transistor input and output characteristics, Transistor load line, Transistor biasing, Small signal amplifier, Transistor modelling, Impact of coupling and bypass capacitors, Transistor parameters, Voltage gain, Current gain, Input and out output resistance, Transistor frequency response, Field effect transistor, Output characteristics, Transfer characteristics, FET parameters, Shockley equation, Plotting transfer characteristics, FET biasing circuits.Digital electronics: Introduction to number system, Logic gates and digital design; Boolean algebra, Sequential and combinational circuits, Karnaugh maps.
Module code: ELEC41000