AC Electric Circuits

Catalog description

Fundamentals of alternating current (AC) circuits involving resistance, capacitance, and inductance. Sinusoidal voltage, current power, phase, resonance, and frequency response of basic circuit elements in series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits, pulsed circuit analysis. Circuit analysis using network theorems may include Kirchhoff's laws, Mesh, Nodal, and Bridge Network analysis, Superposition, Thevenin's, Norton's and Maximum Power Transfer theorems. Decibels, filters, Bode plots, Fourier series, and system analysis are studied. Computer simulation and practical laboratory experiments using AC instrumentation for measuring series-parallel networks to observe and verify theory and concepts presented in lecture.