DCGN381
INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS, ELECTRONICS AND POWER
DCGN381

  This course provides an engineering science analysis of electrical circuits. The following topics are included: DC and single- and three-phase AC circuit analysis, current and charge relationships. Ohm's Law, resistors, inductors, capacitors, equivalent resistance and impedance, Kirchoff's Laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, superposition and source transformation, power and energy, maximum power transfer, first order transient response, algebra of complex numbers, phasor representation, time domain and frequency domain concepts, effective and rms vales, complex power, apparent power, power factor, balanced delta and wye line and phase currents, filters, resonance, diodes, EM work, moving charge in an electric field, relationship between EM voltage and work, Faraday's and Ampere's Laws, magnetic reluctance and ideal transformers.

Prerequisite: PHGN 200

Credit Hours:3 hours lecture; 3 semester hours