BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RANCHI, INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE 2101 - BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Module - 1 Introduction: Importance of Electrical Engineering in day-to-day life. Electrical elements and their classification. KCL and KVL equations. Loop current and Node voltage method. D.C. Circuits: Steady state analysis with independent and dependent sources; Series and Parallel circuits; Star-Delta conversion. D.C. Circuit Theorems: Superposition theorem; Thevenins & Nortons theorem; Maximum Power Transfer theorem. (12) Module - 2 A.C. Single-phase Series Circuits: Common signals and their waveforms. RMS and Average value. Form factor & Peak factor of sinusoidal waveform. Impedance of Series circuits. Phasor diagram. Power. Power factor. Power triangle. (5) Module - 3 A.C. Single-phase Parallel Circuits: Phasor diagram. Power. Power factor. Power triangle. (3) Module - 4 Coupled circuits resonance, Q-factor, A.C. Circuit Theorems: Superposition theorem; Thevenins & Nortons theorem; Maximum Power Transfer theorem for AC Circuits (7) Module - 5 Three Phase Circuits: Line and Phase relation for Star and Delta connection. Power relations. Analysis of balanced and unbalanced 3 phase circuits. (7) Module - 6 Magnetic Circuits: Introduction. Series-parallel magnetic circuits. Analysis of Linear and Non-linear magnetic circuits. Energy storage. A.C. excitation. Eddy currents and Hysteresis losses. (5) Module -7 Basic Indicating Instruments: Moving coil and moving iron type instruments. (4) Text Books 1. Basic Electrical Engineering, Fitzgerald, Hinginbotham 2. Basic Electrical Engineering I.J. Nagrath and D.P. Kothari, , 2nd Edition, TMH, Delhi. Reference Books 3. 4. 5. 6. Electric circuits- Schaum Series Electrical Engineering- Del Toro. Basic Electrical Engineering- Mittle. Basic Electrical Engineering- GKLal, 3D Publisher, Ranchi