EEE241/ETE241 Electrical Circuits II

Code and Name EEE241/ETE241 Electrical Circuits II
Type Core, Engineering, Lecture
Credit Hours 3
Pre-requisites EEE141/ETE141 - Electrical Circuits

Course Summary: Formulation and solution of circuit equations, network theorems, sinusoidal steady-state analysis. Topics include loop and nodal analysis, superposition and Thevenin’s theorem, properties of sinusoids, phasor representation and vector diagrams. AC Power concepts and Applications, Power Factor Correction, Three Phase Circuits, Power in Three Phase Circuits, Mutual Inductance, Transformers, Usc of MATLAB and PSpice for AC Circuit Analysis. This course has mandatory laboratory sessions every week. This course has separate mandatory laboratory sessions every week in a separate course EEE241L/ETE241L.

Course Objectives: The objectives of this course are to

  1. acquire solid understanding of basic ac circuit concepts.
  2. apply basic laws, known as Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws to simple ac circuits
  3. learn techniques in analyzing series, parallel, and series-parallel ac circuits.
  4. know different theorems for network analysis applied to ac circuits.
  5. gain ac power concepts and practical applications of these concepts.
  6. analyze balanced and unbalanced three-phase circuits.
  7. use computer-aided design tools for circuit analysis of AC circuits.