EHB 211E - Basic of Electrical Circuits

Course Objectives

Electric circuits, models and Circuits elements. Kirchhoff’s laws: Kirchhoff’s voltage
law and Kirchhoff’s current law. Graph theory, element graph: Branch currents, branch voltages, Graph matrices. Tellegen Theorem and Conservation of energy. Two terminal elements: resistor, capacitor and inductor. Ind. sources, dependent sources. Three terminal elements: Gyrator, transistor, transformer. Nonlinear elements Linearized models. Node voltage method and mesh current method for resistive circuits. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits. RLC circuits: First order and second order circuits. State
equation and state variables for linear time invariant circuits. Solution of second order state equations.

Course Description

Electric circuits, models and Circuits elements. Kirchhoff’s laws: Kirchhoff’s voltage
law and Kirchhoff’s current law. Graph theory, element graph: Branch currents, branch voltages, Graph matrices. Tellegen Theorem and Conservation of energy. Two terminal elements: resistor, capacitor and inductor. Ind. sources, dependent sources. Three terminal elements: Gyrator, transistor, transformer. Nonlinear elements Linearized models. Node voltage method and mesh current method for resistive circuits. Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits. RLC circuits: First order and second order circuits. State
equation and state variables for linear time invariant circuits. Solution of second order state equations.