NPTEL Syllabus

Basic Electrical Circuits - Video course

COURSE OUTLINE
The course begins with an introduction to basic linear elements used in electrical circuits.
Mesh and node analysis for systematic analysis of large circuits will be studied.
Fundamental circuit theorems and their use in analysis will be discussed. Two port
parameters used for abstracting out the behaviour of complex circuits will be described.
The notion of negative feedback, and the opamp as an element for implementing negative
feedback circuits will be discussed. Differential equations are introduced as tools for
analyzing circuits with memory. Sinusoidal steady state analysis for simple analysis of such
circuits will be studied. The concepts of power and energy in circuits will be discussed.
Rudiments of three-phase circuits and their analysis will be studied.
COURSE DETAIL
Session
No.

Topics

Introduction to the course; Current and Voltage; Kirchhoff's Current and

Voltage laws

Electrical circuit elements: Voltage and current sources; R, C, L, M

Elements in series and parallel; Superposition in linear circuits

Controlled sources; Energy and power in elements; Energy in a mutual

inductor and constraint on mutual inductance

Nodal analysis of a network with conductances and current sources; Setting

up the equations; Conductance matrix; Superposition

Nodal analysis with voltage sources and controlled sources; Modified nodal
analysis

Modified nodal analysis with controlled sources; Loop analysis

Loop analysis with link currents as variables; Loop analysis for planar
circuits(Mesh analysis) with mesh currents as variables

Substitution theorem; Thevenin's theorem

10

Thevenin's theorem; Norton's theorem; Pushing a voltage source through a

node; Splitting a current source; Tellegen's theorem

11

Tellegen's theorem; Reciprocity theorem

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Electronics &
Communication
Engineering
Pre-requisites:
Algebra, trigonometry,
complex numbers, calculus,
basic notions of charge,
current, and potential
Coordinators:
Dr. Nagendra Krishnapura
Department of Electrical
EngineeringIIT Madras

12

Compensation theorem; Maximum power transfer theorem; Circuits with

nonlinear components

13

Two port parameters

14

Negative feedback

15

Opamp for realizing negative feedback circuits; Determining opamp signs for
negative feedback

16

Determining opamp signs for negative feedback; Circuits using opamps;

Opamp amplifiers;

17

RC circuit natural response; First order differential equation

18

Step response of RC circuits; Response of a first order circuit to exp(st)

19

Sinusoidal steady response of RC circuits; RL circuits

20

Step response of RC/RL circuits

21

Series RLC circuit; Second order differential equation; Natural response

22

Second order system natural response and step response; AC signal

measures; Sinusoidal steady state analysis

23

Sinusoidal steady state analysis; Phasors

24

Sinusoidal steady state response of first order(RC) and second order(series

RLC) circuits; Series and parallel RLC circuits;

25

Complex power, Apparent power, Active and Reactive power, Power factor,
Power factor correction; Conjugate matching for maximum power transfer

26

Coupled inductors; Ideal transformer

27

Three phase circuits; Star to Delta transformation; Real and reactive power
with a balanced three phase load

28

Symmetrical component representation of unbalanced three phase

components; Power measurement; Two wattmeter method for three phase
power measurement;

29

Extra class-if necessary

References:
Hayt, Kemmerly, and Durbin, Engineering Circuit Analysis, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill
2006.
A joint venture by IISc and IITs, funded by MHRD, Govt of India

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