Kurssisivut
DC Circuit Analysis
Basic Course Information
Name, course code and teaching period: DC circuit analysis (TA00AB71), 1/2011
Teacher: Vesa Linja-aho
Degree programme: Automotive and transport engineering
Course structure: 2+3 hours/week, one period.
Course contents in short: Basics of direct current circuits: Kirchhoff's laws, Ohm's law, circuit transformations, nodal voltage analysis, superposition principle and controlled sources.
Syllabus
Course Overview
The course covers the basic principles of electricity and methods for analyzing electric circuits
Contents
- Kirchhoff's laws, Ohm's law, electric power
- Voltage and current sources
- Series and parallel circuits
- Nodal voltage analysis
- Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits
- Superposition method
- Controlled sources
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites. Basic algebra, such as manipulation of expressions and solving sets of equations, should be mastered before attending the course.
Textbook
Nilsson, Riedel: Electric Circuits. 9th Edition. Pearson 2011.
Grading
The course is graded with final exam. You can gain bonus to final exam by solving the exercise problems. If you finish correctly over 50 % of the exercises, you can skip one problem in the final exam. If you finish correctly over 80 % of the exercises, you can skip two problems in the final exam.
Course Schedule and Material
The Lecture Slides
The slides in Slideshare:
Course Schedule
The table contains the chapters for the both alternative textbooks and link to the week's excercise sets (pdf).
Week |
Topics |
Electric Circuits |
Exercises |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
The basic quantities and units in electricity. Voltage and current sources and resistance. Kirchhoff's laws and Ohm's law. Series and parallel circuits. |
1.1-1.5, 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.2 |
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2 |
Electric power. Ground. Nodes. Nodal analysis. |
1.6, 4.1, 4.2 |
|
3 |
Conductance. Practising the nodal analysis. |
2.2, 4.2 |
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4 |
Source transformation. Thévenin and Norton equivalents. |
4.9-4.11 |
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5 |
Superposition method. |
4.13 |
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6 |
Voltage and current dividers. Controlled sources. Inductor and capacitor in a DC circuit. |
3.3-3.4, 2.5, 4.3, 6.1-6.2 |
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7 |
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8 |
Review |
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Perustiedot
Nimi, kurssikoodi ja opetusjakso: Tasasähköpiirit (TA00AB71), 1/2011
Opettaja: Vesa Linja-aho
Koulutusohjelma: Auto- ja kuljetustekniikka
Kurssin rakenne: 2+3 tuntia viikossa, 1 jakso.
Sisältö lyhyesti: Tasasähköpiirien perusteet: Kirchhoffin lait, Ohmin laki, piirimuunnokset, solmujännitemenetelmä, kerrostamismenetelmä ja ohjatut lähteet.