Electric Circuit Analysis

Wikiversity Electrical Engineering School The Lessons in ELECTRIC CIRCUITS ANALYSIS COURSE

Course Brief & Outline This is a Level 1 course in the school of Electrical Engineering. This course deals with the fundamentals of electric circuits, their components and the mathematical tools used to represent and analyze electrical circuits. By the end of the course, the student must be able to confidently analyze and build simple electric circuits. It cannot be emphasized enough that as a foundation course it is important to understand the basics laid out in this course. Read carefully through given material and attempt all quizzes/questionnaires in this course. Learn by doing, try out all home laboratories and don't forget to follow necessary precautionary measures. Approximately 10 mA through the mains of your home is needed to have you seriously hospitalized!

Lessons in Electric Circuit Analysis← You are here Lesson #1: Passive sign convention Lesson #2: Simple Resistive Circuits Lesson #3: Resistors in Series Lesson #4: Resistors in Parallel Quiz Test: Circuit Analysis Quiz 1 Lesson #5: Kirchhoff's Voltage Law Lesson #6: Kirchhoff's Current Law Lesson #7: Nodal analysis Lesson #8: Mesh Analysis Quiz Test: Circuit Analysis Quiz 2 Home Laboratory: Circuit Analysis - Lab1 This Course in the Grand Scheme of things The Faculty of Engineering & Technology School of Electrical Engineering Level 0: Entrance Level 1: Freshman ← Level 2: Sophomore Level 3: Junior Level 4: Senior

Syllabus By the end of the course a student must be comfortable with the following: Circuit Variables Circuit Elements Simple Resistive Circuits Techniques of Circuit Analysis Kirchhoff's Voltage Law Problems Kirchhoff's Current Law Problems Nodal Analysis Problems Mesh Analysis Problems

Pre-Requisites This is a level 1 course. It is assumed that the student has undertaken all currently available Level 0 courses. The following courses ( topics ) are recommended pre-requisite materials before registering/attempting this course. EE-PRE: Electrical Engineering Orientation Ohm's Law Voltage

HINTS IN SOLVING CIRCUIT ANALYSIS PROBLEMS The following is based on the typical problem solving techniques and tricks that professors and tutors have reported as helpful in solving circuit analysis problems: 1. Don't convert fractions until the last step in the problem 2. Be able to re-derive any needed equation from the basic V=I*R and P=I*V equations 3. Learn Cramer's rule 4. Often KW are divided by mA so don't bother moving the decimal around to the end 5. Draw every problem out 6. Never forget the ground 7. Try using symbols in working out your expressions and only substitute numbers at the final stage If you keep your calculation parallel to your line of thought, then you will avoid many pitfalls.
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