Alternating current circuits

It is a course of Electrical engineering

Level 1

Term 1

Electrical engineering

Syllabus

Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance

Capacitance Dielectric strength Leakage current Capacitors Energy stored by a capacitor Stray capacitance Transients in capacitive networks Capacitance values

Inductance Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction Lenz's law Inductors Energy stored by an inductor Transients in inductive networks Inductance values

Instantaneous current, voltage and power

• Alternating potential diffreence
• Alternating current
• Alternating voltage
• Alternating power
  • Real power
  • Reactive power
  • Power factor
• Frequency
• Phase and Phase difference
• RLC branch
  • R branch
  • L branch
  • C branch
• Impedence
• Reactance
• Admittance
• Susceptance

Phasor algebra

• Phasor
• Phasor algebra
• Vector diagram
• Operator j

Single-phase circuit analysis

• Resonance