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Circuit Theory & Analysis: Course Outline (PHY 2003)

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Course Outline

Course Contents:
 Electrical Circuit Elements: Voltage and Current Sources, Electrical Resistance
and Ohm’s Law, capacitors and inductors
 Simple Resistive Circuits: Ohm’s law, Resistors in Series and Parallel, Voltage and
Current Divider, Delta-Star transformation, Equivalent Circuits.
 Techniques of Circuit Analysis: Kirchhoff’s Laws, Nodal Analysis, loop analysis
 Techniques of Circuit Analysis: Dependant Sources analysis; (Nodal and loop
analysis)
 Techniques of Circuit Analysis: Source Transformations, Thevenin’s and Norton’s
Theorems, Maximum Power Transfer, Superposition.
 Capacitance: capacitance calculation, series and parallel connection of
capacitance
 Inductance: Self and Mutual Inductances, calculation of inductances, series and
parallel connection of inductances
 First-Order RC Circuits response: Natural and Step Responses
 First-Order RL Circuits response: Natural and Step Responses 

 Second order RLC circuit response: Natural and Step Responses
 Fourier Transform
 Laplace Transform

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