EE 101B PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Credits 4

UNIT-1

D.C. Circuit Analysis: Basic concepts of electric circuits, Ohm’s Law, Independent energy sources, Dependent energy sources, passive elements, circuit properties, Kirchoff’s laws, applications of Kirchoff’s laws, Nodal and Loop methods of Analysis, , Superposition Theorem, Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s Theorem, Reciprocity Theorem, Maximum Power Transfer Theorem, Millman’s Theorem, Star-Delta or delta-star transformation, Applications of network theorems P-spice for DC circuit analysis.

UNIT-2

A.C. Circuits: Sinusoidal signal, Phasors, polar & rectangular, exponential & trigonometric representations, Resistance, Inductance & Capacitance components, behavior of these components in A.C. circuits, Phasor relationship for circuit elements, Impedance & Admittance, instantaneous & peak values, average and RMS values, active power, reactive power, apparent power, power factor, complex power, behavior of AC series , parallel circuits, RL, RC & RLC A.C. circuits (series and parallel), Resonance-series and parallel R-L-C Circuits, Q-factor, cut-off frequencies & bandwidth.

UNIT-3

Three Phase Circuits: Phase and line voltages and currents, balanced star and delta circuits, power equation, measurement of power by two wattmeter method.
Measuring Instruments: Principle, Construction & working of moving coil type voltmeter & ammeter, moving iron type voltmeter & ammeter, Electrodynamic type wattmeter, single-phase induction type energy meter.

UNIT-4

Transformers: Ampere’s law, Mutual Inductance, Construction, Working principle and phasor diagrams of Single-phase Transformer, Emf equation, Equivalent circuit, testing, efficiency and regulation of single-phase transformer, Auto transformer.
Rotating Machines: Construction and working principle of dc motor and generator and its characteristics. Construction and working principle of 3-phase Induction machines & 3-phase synchronous machines, torque-speed characteristics.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Basic Electrical Engg (2nd Edition) : Kothari & Nagarath, TMH
2. Electrical Technology (Vol-I): B.L Theraja & A K Theraja, S.Chand
3. Fundamental of electrical Engineering, Rajendra Prasad, PHI, Edition 2005.
4. Basic Electrical Engineering, V.N Mittle & Arvind Mittal, TMH, Second Edition
5. Basic Electrical Engineering, S.N. Singh, PHI

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Electrical Engineering Fundamentals: Deltoro, PHI
2. Basic Electrical Engineering (TMH WBUT Series), Abhijit Chakrabarti & Sudipta Nath, TMH

3. Basic Electrical Engineering, T.K. Nagsarkar & M.S. Sukhija, Oxford
4. Introduction to Electrical Engineering, M.S. Naidu & S, Kamakshaiah, TMH
5. Basic Electrical Engineering, J.J. Cathey & S.A Nasar, TMH, Second Edition.