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Basic Electrical Circuits

Dr. Nagendra Krishnapura · IIT Madras

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Lectures

Week 1: Preliminaries; Current and voltage; Electrical elements and circuits; Kirchhoff's laws; Basic elements;…

  1. Preliminaries Video
  2. Current Video
  3. Voltage Video
  4. Electrical elements and circuits Video
  5. Kirchhoff's current law(KCL) Video
  6. Kirchhoff's voltage law(KVL) Video
  7. Voltage source Video
  8. Current source Video
  9. Resistor Video
  10. Capacitor Video
  11. Inductor Video
  12. Mutual inductor Video
  13. Linearity of elements Video

Week 2: Elements in series and parallel; Controlled sources

  1. Series connection-Voltage sources in series Video
  2. Series connection of R, L, C, current source Video
  3. Elements in parallel Video
  4. Current source in series with an element; Voltage source in parallel with an element Video
  5. Extreme cases: Open and short circuits Video
  6. Summary Video
  7. Voltage controlled voltage source(VCVS) Video
  8. Voltage controlled current source(VCCS) Video
  9. Current controlled voltage source(CCVS) Video
  10. Current controlled current source(CCCS) Video
  11. Realizing a resistance using a VCCS or CCCS Video
  12. Scaling an element's value using controlled sources Video
  13. Example calculation Video

Week 3: Power and energy in electrical elements; Circuit analysis methods

  1. Power and energy absorbed by electrical elements Video
  2. Power and energy in a resistor Video
  3. Power and energy in a capacitor Video
  4. Power and energy in an inductor Video
  5. Power and energy in a voltage source Video
  6. Power and energy in a current source Video
  7. Goals of circuit analysis Video
  8. Number of independent KCL equations Video
  9. Number of independent KVL equations and branch relationships Video
  10. Analysis of circuits with a single independent source Video
  11. Analysis of circuits with multiple independent sources using superposition Video
  12. Superposition: Example Video

Week 4: Nodal analysis

  1. What is nodal analysis Video
  2. Setting up nodal analysis equations Video
  3. Structure of the conductance matrix Video
  4. How do elements circuit appear in the nodal analysis formulation Video
  5. Completely solving the circuit starting from nodal analysis Video
  6. Nodal analysis example Video
  7. Matrix inversion basics Video
  8. Nodal analysis with independent voltage sources Video
  9. Supernode for nodal analysis with independent voltage sources Video
  10. Nodal analysis with VCCS Video
  11. Nodal analysis with VCVS Video
  12. Nodal analysis with CCVS Video
  13. Nodal analysis with CCCS Video
  14. Nodal analysis summary Video

Week 5 : Mesh analysis; Circuit theorems

  1. Planar circuits Video
  2. Mesh currents and their relationship to branch currents Video
  3. Mesh analysis Video
  4. Mesh analysis with independent current sources-Supermesh Video
  5. Mesh analysis with current controlled voltage sources Video
  6. Mesh analysis with current controlled current sources Video
  7. Mesh analysis using voltage controlled sources Video
  8. Nodal analysis versus Mesh analysis Video
  9. Superposition theorem Video
  10. Pushing a voltage source through a node Video
  11. Splitting a current source Video
  12. Substitution theorem: Current source Video
  13. Substitution theorem: Voltage source Video
  14. Substituting a voltage or current source with a resistor Video

Week 6: More circuit theorems; Two port parameters

  1. Extensions to Superposition and Substitution theorem Video
  2. Thevenin's theorem Video
  3. Worked out example: Thevenin's theorem Video
  4. Norton's theorem Video
  5. Worked out example: Norton's theorem Video
  6. Maximum power transfer theorem Video
  7. Preliminaries Video
  8. Two port parameters Video
  9. y parameters Video
  10. y parameters: Examples Video

Week 7: Two port parameters continued; Reciprocity in resistive networks

  1. z parameters Video
  2. z parameters: Examples Video
  3. h parameters Video
  4. h parameters: Examples Video
  5. g parameters Video
  6. g parameters: Examples Video
  7. Calculations with a two-port element Video
  8. Calculations with a two-port element Video
  9. Degenerate cases Video
  10. Relationships between different two-port parameters Video
  11. Equivalent circuit representation of two-ports Video
  12. Reciprocity Video
  13. Proof of reciprocity of resistive two-ports Video
  14. Proof for 4-terminal two-ports Video
  15. Reciprocity in terms of different two-port parameters Video
  16. Reciprocity in circuits containing controlled sources Video
  17. Examples Video

Week 8: Opamp and negative feedback; Example circuits and additional topics

  1. Feedback amplifier using an opamp Video
  2. Ideal opamp Video
  3. Negative feedback around the opamp Video
  4. Finding opamp sign for negative feedback Video
  5. Example: Determining opamp sign for negative feedback Video
  6. Analysis of circuits with opamps Video
  7. More on opamps: Example circuits and additional topics Video
  8. Inverting amplifier Video
  9. Summing amplifier Video
  10. Instrumentation amplifier Video
  11. Negative resistance Video
  12. Finding opamp signs for negative feedback-circuits with multiple opamps Video
  13. Opamp supply voltages and saturation Video
  14. KCL with an opamp and supply currents Video

Week 9 :First Order Circuits

  1. Circuits with storage elements(capacitors and inductors) Video
  2. First order circuit with zero input-natural response Video
  3. First order RC circuit with zero input-Example Video
  4. First order circuit with a constant input Video
  5. General form of the first order circuit response Video
  6. First order RC circuit with a constant input-Example Video
  7. First order circuit with piecewise constant input Video
  8. First order circuit with piecewise constant input-Example Video
  9. First order circuit-Response of arbitrary circuit variables Video
  10. Summary: Computing first order circuit response Video
  11. Does a capacitor block DC? Video
  12. Finding the order of a circuit Video
  13. First order RC circuits with discontinuous capacitor voltages Video
  14. Summary: Computing first order circuit response with discontinuities Video
  15. First order RL circuits Video
  16. First order RL circuit with discontinuous inductor current-Example Video

Week 10 : First order circuits with time-varying inputs

  1. First order RC circuit with an exponential input Video
  2. First order RC response to its own natural response Video
  3. First order RC response to a sinusoidal input Video
  4. First order RC response to a sinusoidal input-via the complex exponential Video
  5. Summary: Linear circuit response to sinusoidal input via the complex exponential Video
  6. Three methods of calculating the sinusoidal steady state response Video
  7. Calculating the total response including initial conditions Video
  8. Why are sinusoids used in measurement? Video

Week 11: Second order system response

  1. Second order system natural response Video
  2. Second order system as a cascade of two first order systems Video
  3. Second order system natural response-critically damped and underdamped Video
  4. Generalized form of a second order system Video
  5. Numerical example Video
  6. Series and parallel RLC circuits Video
  7. Forced response of a second order system Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Electrical Engineering
Teacher
Dr. Nagendra Krishnapura
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
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