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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Circuit Theory I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 420-2016/03
Abbreviation TOI
Course title Circuit Theory I
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Lubomír Ivánek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Introduction to the subject. Definition of basic concepts.
• Thevenin`s and Norton`s theorem. Superposition principle.
• Circuit analysis in harmonic steady state.
• Circuit topology. Kirchhoff`s laws. Analysis of composit electrical circuits.
• Circuit analysis by means of section voltage method and loop current method. Reciprocity and compensation principles.
• Resonance, quality factor, frequecy bandwidth. Immittance functions.
• Inductive coupling, mutual induktance. Elementry models of transformer.
• Analysis of circuit with non-linear elements. Determination of linearized differential and difference parameters.
• Magnetic circuits
• Aproximation of non-harmonic waves by means of Fourier`s series and time series of unit steps.
• Analysis of circuit with non-harmonic waves, power, power factor.
• Determination of circuit parameters and immittances of technical elements. Equivalence and duality principles.
• Dielectrical circuits.
• consultation
Seminars:
• Determination of resistances and source parameters.Current and voltage deviders.
• Step by step method. Transfiguration of the D-to-Y circuit.
• Superposition principle.
• Phasor diagrams, power, immittances.
• Section voltages method.
• Loop currents method.
• Determination of resonace frequency, compensation of quantity and power reactive components.
• Formation of circuit equations in inductive coupling circuit.
• Analysis of circuit with non-linear elements.
• Superposition of elementary analog functions.
• Superposition of unit steps.
• Analysis of circuit with non-harmonic waves.
• Calculation of powers and immittances in circuit with non-harmonic waves.
• Analysis of dielectrical circuits.

Laboratory works:
• Knowledge test.
• Calculation of quantity root-mean-squar values, powers, and woks by means of scalar product of current and voltage.
• Measurement of source parameters.
• Verification of Thevenin`s and Norton`s theorems.
• Verification of computational method, compensation and reciprocitz principles.
• Measurement of devices with non-linear characteristics
• Measurement of quantities in series connection of coil and condensator.
• Measurement of quantities in circuits with series end paralel resonance. Calculation of quality factor.
• Determination of inductive coupling parameters.
• Modelling of quantities by means of goniometrical functions.
• Modelling of quantities by means of unit steps.
• Measurement of non-harmonic quantities in elementary circuits.
• Determination of circuit parameters by means of measured instantaneous values current and voltage.
• Conferment of credit.

Semester projekt:
• 1st Circuit analysis by means of section voltage method and loop current method.

Proofs:
1st Knowledge test.
2nd Circut analysis by means of superposition principle.
3th Analysis of elementary circuit in harmonic steady state.

Literature

Mikulec, M.: Basic Circuit Theory I.,ČVUT 1995
Mikulec, M., Havlíček, V.: Basic Circuit Theory II.ČVUT 1996

Advised literature

Havlíček, V.-Čmejla, R.: Basic Circuit Theory I. (Exercises ), ČVUT 1996
Huelsman, P.L.: Basic Circuit Theory. Prentice-Hall International, 1991, ISBN 0-13-063157-4