Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
COURSE PLAN

Academic year: 2023-2024 (Odd) Semester: I

Program: B. Tech (ECE and EAC) Course Credits: 3
Course Code: 23ECExxx Course Title: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Faculties:
1. Ms. Sonali Agrawal (Mentor)
2. Ms. Kirti S. Pande
3. Dr. Parul Mathur
4. Dr. Pooja Kenchetty

Course Objectives:
• To provide an understanding of fundamental electrical quantities and their measurements.
• To help in the use of analytical tools for circuit analysis.
• To provide an understanding of electromagnetic machines.

Course Outcomes:
CO Course Outcome
CO1 Understand fundamental electrical quantities.
CO2 Understand the principles of electrical measurements.
CO3 Analyse ac and dc circuits.
CO4 Understand the operation of electromagnetic machines.

Syllabus:
Unit 1
Introduction: ac, dc, Voltage, Current and Power, Current and Voltage sources, Dependent and
Independent; Resistance, Inductance (self & Mutual), Capacitance, Series and parallel
combination of R, L, C components, Wheatstone’s bridge, Power and Energy - Alternating voltage
and current, Amplitude, phase, Average and RMS values of waveforms. Complex power, Power
factor for purely resistive, RL, RC and RLC circuits.
Unit 2
AC and DC circuit Analysis – Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current law, Voltage divider
and current divider rule, star delta transformation, Mesh and Nodal Analysis, Source
transformation, Superposition Theorem, Thevenin and Norton’s Theorem, and Maximum power
transfer Theorem.
Unit 3
Electrical Machines - Construction, Principle of operation and applications, DC generator and DC
Motors. Significance of back EMF and EMF equation. Types of DC motors, Speed, Torque,
Torque-Speed characteristics, Load characteristics, Construction and working principles of three
phase induction motor and single-phase transformer.

Text Book:
1. Charles K, Alexander, Mattew N. O. Saidiku, “Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits” by
Tata McGraw Hill Company.
2. D. P. Kothari and Nagrath, “Electrical Machines”, McGraw Hill 2017.
 Reference(s):
1. Vincent Del Toro, “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals”, PHI Second Edition, 2011.
2. S. K. Bhattacharya, “Basic Electrical and Electronics Engineering”, Pearson, 2012.

CO-PO Mapping:
PO/PSO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PSO PSO PSO
CO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
CO1 3
CO2 3 2 2
CO3 3 3 2
CO4 3

Lesson Plan:
Lecture Topics Keywords Objectives
No(s)
1-2 Introduction: AC, DC, Voltage, Circuit active To review active components
Current and Power, Current and components, Independent of the circuit
Voltage sources-Dependent and and dependent sources
Independent
3-5 Resistance, Inductance (self & Circuit passive Review of fundamental
Mutual), Capacitance, Series components, Mutual electrical components R, L,
and parallel combination of R, inductance, Resistance C, and measurement
L, C components, Wheatstone measurement
bridge
6-8 Power and Energy - Alternating Sinusoids, Phasors, Review of alternating voltage
voltage and current, Amplitude, Apparent power and and current, representation of
phase, Average and RMS values of power factor, Phasor circuits in phasor domain
waveforms. Complex power, relationships for circuit
Power factor for purely resistive, elements
RL, RC and RLC circuits
9-11 DC circuit Analysis – Ohm’s law, KVL and KCL to find Review of fundamental laws
Kirchhoff’s voltage, and current law currents and voltages for DC circuits
12-14 DC circuit Analysis – Voltage Series resistors and Review of Network
divider and current divider rule, voltage division, Parallel analysis and
star delta transformation resistor and current reduction techniques
division
15-19 DC circuit Analysis – Mesh and Analysis of DC Mesh and Nodal Analysis
Nodal Analysis, Source Electric Circuits, with Independent and
transformation, Supernode, Supermesh Dependent sources
20-25 DC circuit Analysis– Superposition Network Theorems to Application of various
Theorem, Thevenin and Norton’s DC Electric Circuits Network Theorems to DC
Theorem, and Maximum power Electric Circuits
transfer Theorem
26-30 AC circuit Analysis-Mesh and Solution and analysis of Application of mesh, node
Nodal Analysis, Superposition AC electric circuits analysis and various Network
Theorem, Thevenin and Norton’s Theorems to AC Electric
Theorem, and Maximum power Circuits
transfer Theorem
31-35 Electrical Machines - Construction, Characteristics of DC Understanding of
Principle of operation and generators and DC construction and working
applications, DC generator and DC motors. DC motor speed principle of electromagnetic
Motors. Significance of back EMF control machine
and EMF equation. Types of DC
motors, Speed, Torque, Torque-
 Speed characteristics, Load
characteristics
36-39 Construction and working Induction motor and Understanding of construction
principles of three phase induction transformer operation and working principle of
motor and single-phase transformer electromagnetic machine

Proposed Evaluation Pattern:

Component Evaluation Component with Weightage Total

Type Components Weightage

Quiz 1- 7.5
3 Quizzes + 1 (Conduction for 15 Marks)
30
Assignment Quiz 2- 7.5
(Conduction for 15 Marks)
Quiz 3- 7.5
Internal (Conduction for 15 Marks)
(60 Marks)
Assignment- 7.5
(Conduction for 15 Marks)
Mid-term Exam- 30
Mid-term
(Conduction for 50 Marks and 30
Exam
scale down to 30)

End Semester Exam – 40

External End Semester
(Conduction for 100 Marks and 40
(40 Marks) Exam
scale down to 40)

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