Course

Unit 1

DC Circuit

EMF, Charge, Voltage, Current – Linear circuit elements – Energy and power – Ohms law – Kirchhoff’s voltage and current law – Series parallel combination of R, L, C components – Voltage divider and current divider rules – Super position theorem – Nodal and Mesh Analysis – Step response of RL and RC Circuits (Transient behaviour) – Equivalent network: Thevenin and Norton. 

Unit 2

AC Circuit

Impedance – Instantaneous, Average, Active, Reactive and Apparent Power – Power Factor – Phasors

Unit 3

Introduction to Control Systems  

State Space Representation: State, State variable, and State Model – Canonical state space model for Series RLC Circuit – Solution using eigen values and eigen vectors.

Course Objectives

• To develop the understanding of both AC and DC circuits.
• To acquire the knowledge of circuit analysis techniques for solving both AC and DC circuits
• To learn state space modelling and solution of DC circuits.
• To establish connections between the concepts of electrical engineering, mathematics, and computational solution methods.

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to

Evaluation Pattern

Text Books / References

“Basic Electrical Engineering” by D. P. Kothari and J. Nagrath (4th edition), McGraw Hill, 2019.

“Electric Circuits” by James W. Nilsson and Susan Riedel (11th edition), Pearson, 2018.

“Modern Control Engineering” by Ogata (5th edition), Pearson, 2009.

“Linear Control Systems with MATLAB Applications” by B.S. Manke, Khanna, 12th edition, 2016 .