105 BASIC ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

  Units    Contents of the subjects
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Basic Concepts of Electrical Engineering: Electric Current, Electromotive force, Electric Power, Ohm's Law, Basic Circuit Components, Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction, Lenz's Law, Kirchhoff's laws, Network Sources, Resistive Networks, Series-Parallel Circuits, Node Voltage Method, Mesh Current Method, Superposition, Thevenin's, Norton's and Maximum Power Transfer Theorems.

II
Alternating Quantities: Introduction, Generation of AC Voltages, Root Mean Square and Average Value of Alternating Currents and Voltages, Form Factor and Peak Factor, Phasor Representation of Alternating Quantities, Single Phase RLC Circuits, Introduction to 3-Phase AC System.

III
Rotating Electrical Machines; DC Machines: Principle of Operation of DC Machine as Motor and Generator, EMF Equation, Applications of DC Machines. AC Machines: Principle of Operation of 3-Phase Induction Motor, 3-Phase Synchronous Motor and 3- Phase Synchronous Generator (Alternator), Applications of AC Machines.

IV
Basic Electronics: Conduction in Semiconductors, Conduction Properties of Semiconductor Diodes, Behaviour of the PN Junction, PN Junction Diode, Zener Diode, Photovoltaic Cell, Rectifiers, L, C, & L-C filters, Bipolar Junction Transistor, Field Effect Transistor, Transistor as an Amplifier. Digital Electronics: Boolean algebra, Binary System, Logic Gates and Their Truth Tables.

V
Communication Systems: Introduction, IEEE Spectrum for Communication Systems, Types of Communication, Amplitude and frequency Modulation. Instrumentation : Introduction to Transducers: Thermocouple, RTD, Strain Gauges, Load Cell and Bimetallic Strip. Introduction and classification of ICs.