Week - 1 |
Capacitance/Capacitor: Operation and function of a capacitor; Factors affecting capacitance area of plates, distance between plates, number of plates, dielectric and dielectric constant, working voltage, voltage rating; Capacitor types, construction and function; Capacitor color coding; Calculations of capacitance and voltage in series and parallel circuits; Exponential charge and discharge of a capacitor, time constants; Testing of capacitors |
Week - 2 |
Magnetism: Theory of magnetism; Properties of a magnet; Action of a magnet suspended in the Earth's magnetic field; Magnetization and demagnetization; Magnetic shielding; Various types of magnetic material; Electromagnets construction and principles of operation; Hand clasp rules to determine: magnetic field around current carrying conductor.
Inductance/Inductor: Faraday’s Law; Action of inducing a voltage in a conductor moving in a magnetic field; Induction principles; Mutual induction; The effect of the rate of change of primary current and mutual inductance on induced voltage; Factors affecting mutual inductance: number of turns in coil, physical size of coil, permeability of coil, position of coils with respect to each other; Lenz's Law and polarity determining rules; Back EMF, self-induction; Principle uses of inductors. |
Week - 3 |
AC Theory: Sinusoidal waveform: phase, period, frequency, cycle, Instantaneous, average, root mean square, peak, peak-to-peak current values and calculations of these values, in relation to voltage, current and power Triangular/Square waves; Single/three-phase principles. |
Week - 4 |
AC Theory: Characteristics of Sinusoids, Phasor |
Week - 5 |
AC Theory: Impedance |
Week - 6 |
AC Theory: Impedance |
Week - 7 |
AC Theory: Admittance |
Week - 8 |
Some Useful Circuit Analysis Techniques: Nodal Analysis |
Week - 9 |
Some Useful Circuit Analysis Techniques: Mesh Analysis |
Week - 10 |
Some Useful Circuit Analysis Techniques: Superposition Theorem |
Week - 11 |
Some Useful Circuit Analysis Techniques: Thevenin and Norton Theorems |
Week - 12 |
Some Useful Circuit Analysis Techniques: Thevenin and Norton Theorems |
Week - 13 |
Resistive (R), Capacitive (C) and Inductive (L) Circuits: Phase relationship of voltage and current in L, C and R circuits, parallel, series and series-parallel |
Week - 14 |
Resistive (R), Capacitive (C) and Inductive (L) Circuits: Power dissipation in L, C and R circuits; Impedance, phase angle, power factor and current calculations; True power, apparent power and reactive power calculations.
Filters: Operation, application and use of the following filters: low pass, high pass, band pass, band stop.
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