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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Electrical Circuits I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 420-2015/01
Abbreviation EO I
Course title Electrical Circuits I
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jitka Mohylová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Electrical unit - voltage, current, resistance, measuring device, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws
Resistance - resistors in series, resistors in parallel, resistors in series-parrallel, connection star (Y)and delta (), Y- transformation, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, superposition theorem
Elementary analysis - topology of electrical circuits, loop current analysis, nodal voltage analysis

Capacitance - property, practical capacitors, capacitors in series, capacitors in parallel, resistance in series-parrallel, applications
Inductance, inductors - basic operation, kinds of transformers, applications
Alternatig current, impedance, admitance, RLC circuit analysis, resonance, phasor diagrams
Power analysis - instantaneous power, active power, reactive power, apparent power, power factor
Three-phase systems
Periodic steady state in linear circuits - modulus and phase frequency response, Fourier series, effects of nonlinearities on frequency spectra, Fourier transform
Transient analysis - first order circuits, higher order circuits
The P-N junction, semiconductor diode, rectification, switching, voltage regulation, clipper circuits, LED, photodiode, tunnel diode, Schottky diode, thyristor, triac
Basic bipolar transistors (BJT) - NPN, PNP, basic applications

Junction field-effect transistors (FET)- basic applications
Cells and batteries - electrochemical energy, photovoltaic cell, solar cell

Exercises:
Voltage divider, current divider, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, superposition theorem
Elementary analysis - loop current analysis, nodal voltage analysis
Admitance, impedance, conductance, susceptance, - RC, RL, RLC circuits, resonance
Frequency responses
First order circuits
Higher order circuits
Three-phase circuits

Sementer project


Laboratories:
Experimental verification of the Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws
Voltage divider, current divider
Frequency responses and time function RC circuits
Experimental investigation of the RLC circuit
Measurement the AV-characteristic of rectifier diode, Zener diode and BJT
Semester project

Projects:
Semester project - Analysing sinusoidal circuits with complex impedances

Literature

Mikulec, M., Havlíček V.: Basic ciruits theory, ČVUT Praha, 2005 ISBN 80-01-03172-1
Havlíček V., Čmejla, R., Zemánek, I.: Basic ciruits theory I - exercises, ČVUT Praha, 1997 ISBN 80-01-01654-4 

Scherz, P.: Practical electronics for inventors, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000, ISBN 0-07-058078-2

Advised literature

Gibilisco, S.: Teach yourself electricity and electronics, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006, ISBN 0-07-145933-2
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/