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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Circuit Theory I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 420-2016/05
Abbreviation TOI
Course title Circuit Theory I
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Stanislav Zajaczek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Organizational instructions, introduction to electrical engineering – basic concepts, definitions of electric quantities, e.g. resistivity, conductivity, Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s law
2. Electrical components connection, step by step method, method of proportional quantities.
3. Real voltage and current source, voltage, current and power matching, voltage divider, current divider.
4. Wye – delta transform.
5. Principles of electric circuit analysis
6. Electric circuit topology
7. Mesh current method.
8. Node-voltage analysis.
9. Magnetic circuits.
10. Dialectical circuits.
11. Circuits of sinusoidal alternating current in steady state.
12. AC circuit analysis in sinusoidal steady state.
13. Grading test, Q/A time.

Seminars:
1. Quantities, units, measures. Calculation of resistance from geometric dimensions. Standard values of resistors.
2. Verification of Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s law.
3. Circuit components connection, step by step method, method of proportional quantities.
4. Connection of power supplies, voltage and current dividers.
5. Wye – delta transform and vice versa.
6. Superposition theorem.
7. Thevenin’s and Norton's theorem.
8. Mesh current method.
9. Node-voltage analysis.
10. Dialectical circuits analysis.
11. Magnetic circuit analysis.
12. Amplitude, RMS value, phasor.
13. Mesh current method, Node-voltage analysis in sinusoidal steady state.
14. Consultations.

Laboratory works:
1. Rules of laboratory works, device connection, registration and processing of measured values.
2. Verification of basic electric circuits laws, Tellegen's theorem.
3. Loaded and unloaded voltage divider.
4. Test 1
5. Power supply load characteristic.
6. Wye – delta transform.
7. Verification of superposition theorem.
8. Test 2
9. Verification of Thevenin’s and Norton's theorem.
10. Seminar project.
11. Measurement of inductive coupling.
12. Test 3
13. Substitute measurement.
14. Credit.

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