SECOND SEMESTER

BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

FULL MARKS: 100. IME: 3 HOURS.

1. D.C. circuits: Ideas of electric circuits, power and energy in circuits, series and parallel circuits,kirchoff’s law and their applications, branch and loop current method of solving networks, use of crammers rule
2. Work,power & energy: Effects of electric current, Joule’s law of electric heating Thermal efficiency, SI units, calculation of power of a hydroelectric power station.
3. A.C. circuit fundamentals: Alternating quantities, sinusoidal rectangular and trangular wave forms, effective avarage value and form factor, power and power factor addition and subtraction of AC quantities of same frequencies, phasor and complex representation of sinusoidal quantities, simple parallel and series circuits,series and parallel resonance,introduction to 3-phase circuits, relation between phase and line quantities.
4. Power Apparatus: Principles of voltage transformation by single phase transformer, construction and e.m.f. equation of simple DC generator and alternator. Elementary working principle of DC motor and induction motor.

Text Book

Basic Electrical Engineering by B.L. Thareja.

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