Basic Electrical Engineering

(TEE 101)
 Course Outcomes

After Successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

CO 1 Understand and analyze basic electric circuits

CO 2 Assess the various characteristics of Alternating Current/Voltage.
CO 3 Understand the concept of three-phase AC circuits.
CO 4 Summarize the basic characteristics of single-phase transformer.
CO 5 Introduce the components of low voltage electrical installations
CO 6 Understand the working principles of electrical machines
 Syllabus
Unit No. Content Hours
DC Circuits:
Electrical circuit elements (R, L and C), voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff current and voltage laws,
Unit -1 Mesh and Node analysis with DC source. Superposition, Thevenin’s and Norton Theorems, Maximum
9
Power Transfer theorem
AC Circuits:
Representation of sinusoidal waveforms, peak and rms values, phasor representation, real power,
Unit -2 reactive power, apparent power, power factor, Analysis of single-phase ac circuits consisting of R, L, C, 8
RL, RC, RLC combinations (series and parallel), resonance. Three-phase balanced circuits, voltage and
current relations in star and delta connections
Transformers:
Unit -3 Magnetic circuit, BH characteristics, ideal and practical transformer, equivalent circuit, losses and 8
efficiency of transformers, auto-transformer.
Electrical Machines:
Unit -4 Working principle and e.m.f equation of dc machine, torque speed characteristic of separately excited 8
dc motor, working principle of three phase induction motor.
Electrical Installations:
Components of LT Switchgear: Switch Fuse Unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB, RCD, MCCB, Types of Wires and
Unit -5 Cables, Earthing. Types of Batteries, Important Characteristics for Batteries. Elementary calculations for
9
energy consumption, power factor improvement.
Total Hours 42
 Text Books/References

D.P. Kothari and I. J. Nagrath, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.

D.C. Kulshreshtha, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, McGraw Hill, 2009.

V. N Mittle and Arvind Mittle, “Basic Electrical Engineering” Tata McGraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd. (2005)

E. Hughes, “Electrical and Electronics Technology”, Pearson, 2010.

L.S. Bobrow, “Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering”, Oxford University Press, 2011.

V.D. Toro, “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals”, Prentice Hall India, 1989.