COURSE TITLE: ELECTRIC CIRCUIT THEORY 1
COURSE CODE: EEE 311
RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK: FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BY SADIKU AND IT’S SOLUTION
MANUAL ( IF POSSIBLE GET THE LATEST EDITION ), PAST QUESTIONS [2016/2017 TILL DATE]
TOPIC 1: NETWORK TRANSFORMATION
THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED HERE ARE:
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Know how to recognize and resolve a series connection
Know how to recognize and resolve a parallel connection
Know how to identify your star ( wye ) connections
Know how to identify the mesh ( delta ) connections
Conversion from STAR to DELTA connections and vice-versa
Understand the underlying principle for maximum power transfer to occur
Know how to perform basic calculations involving maximum power transfer
TOPIC 2: FIRST ORDER CIRCUIT
SOME BASIC KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED FOR SOLVING FIRST ORDER CICUITS
1. Characteristics of a capacitor when it’s fully charged
2. Characteristics of an inductor when it is fully charged
3. How to calculate the parameters in an open and a short circuit (i.e VOC and ISC)
4. Finding resultant resistance, inductance and capacitance in a given circuit
5. Know the rules of series and parallel connections in terms of how current and voltages
behaves in a given circuit
6. Understand the behavior of the switch that is used for the given circuit problem ( know how
to determine when it is opened and closed )
7. Know the conditions of the circuit elements (usually the capacitor or/and the inductor )
before the switch was closed, when it was closed, and after it has been closed for a very
long time
8. Know how to determine the time constant for the various first order circuits ( RL circuit, and
RC circuit )
9. 8 Know the differences between natural response, transient response and complete
response.
10. Never you forget to attach the required units to your evaluated answer
TOPIC 3: SECOND ORDER CIRCUIT
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What second order circuit really is
How to identify the various types of second order circuit ( RLC, RCC, RLL circuits )
The approach for getting the initial and the final conditions of the circuit elements involved
Getting the respective derivative values of the capacitor and inductor in the circuit
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Recognizing a source free RLC circuit
Understanding how to get the response in terms of current or voltage
What natural frequency is
What resonant frequency is
What damping factor is
The kinds of solutions you get (i.e. the various cases )
Recognizing the source free parallel RLC circuit
Understanding how to solve problems related to source free RLC circuit
Step response of the RLC series and parallel circuit
Recognizing the general second order circuits
Generating the various differential equations using KCL and KVL from the circuit
Remember attaching the units to your final answer
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