B.E. III Sem Electrical Engineering

III SEMESTER

3EE3. CIRCUIT ANALYSIS-I

 

Unit1. INTRODUCTION: Introduction to circuit elements and their characteristics. Current and voltage reference. Response of single element, double element and triple element circuits. Resonance, selectivity & Q-factor in ac circuits.
NETWORK ANALYSIS: Network voltages. Mesh & node systems of network equations and their comparison. Graph of network, tree, incidence matrix, fundamental circuit functions, cut sets, f-circuits analysis and f-cut set analysis, node and node pair analysis. Duality. Method of obtaining dual network.


Unit2. NETWORK THEOREMS: Thevenis’s, Norton's, Superposition, Reciprocity, Compensation, Millman's, Tellegen’s, Maximum power transfer and Miller`s theorems.


Unit3. POLYPHASE CIRCUITS: General circuit relations: Three phase star, three phase delta, star and delta combination, four wire star connection, balanced three phase voltages and unbalanced impedances. Power and reactive volt-amperes in a 3-phase system. Power relations in AC circuits: Instantaneous power in AC circuits, power factor, apparent power, reactive power, power triangle, complex power.


Unit4. NON-SINUSOIDAL WAVES: Complex periodic waves and their analysis by Fourier series. Different kinds of symmetry, determination of co-efficients. Average and effective values of a non-sinusoidal wave, power in a circuit of non-sinusoidal waves of current and voltage, form factor, equivalent sinusoidal wave and equivalent power factor. Response of linear network to non-sinusoidal periodic waves.


Unit5. TIME DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS: Response of networks to step, ramp, impulse, pulse and sinusoidal inputs. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of circuits. Shifting theorem, initial and final value theorems. Special signal waveforms with Laplace transform & applications to circuit operations.