Course Objectives

1 Implement concepts learned from EEP-110 on AC circuits.
a Review concepts taken in EEP-110.
b Review Ohms law, power and energy.
c Review series and parallel circuits.
d Review Kichhoff's voltage law and Kirchhoff's current law.
2 Analyze series and parallel AC circuits using impedance and phasor diagrams.
a Calculate impedance, admittance and phasor diagram.
b Solve impedance and admittance circuits.
c Apply voltage divider rule, frequency response of RC circuits for impedance circuits.
d Analyze parallel AC network, current divider rule, and frequency response of parallel RL circuits.
e Use basic laboratory measurement equipment including the power supplies, digital multimeters, function generators, and oscilloscopes to conduct experiments.
3 Ability to perform source conversion and combine current sources in parallel.
a Ability to combine parallel current sources.
b Identify current sources for conversion and simplification of the electric circuit.
c Use basic laboratory measurement equipment including the power supplies, digital multimeters, function generators, and oscilloscopes to conduct experiments.
4 Perform analysis on circuits using mesh and nodal methods.
a Write the mesh equations
b Solve the mesh equations using matrix calculations.
c Write the node equations.
d Solve the node equations using matrix calculations.
e Use basic laboratory measurement equipment including the power supplies, digital multimeters, function generators, and oscilloscopes to conduct experiments.
5 Analyze circuits using super position, Thevenin’s/Norton’s Theorem, and max power transfer theorem.
a Understand the concepts of super position Thevenin/Norton Theorem.
b Understand the concept of maximum power transfer.
c Solve circuits using Thevenin, Norton and maximum power transfer.
d Use computer simulation (Matlab and/or Pspice) tools to design and analyze simple circuits.
6 Understand the frequency response of RC and RL circuits.
a Comprehend the concept of frequency response of AC circuits.
b Identify the frequency response of RC circuits.
c Identify the frequency response of parallel RL circuits.
d Use basic laboratory measurement equipment including the power supplies, digital multimeters, function generators, and oscilloscopes to conduct experiments.
7 Calculate AC Power in R, RL, RC, and RLC circuits.
a Calculate S, P and Q for R, RL, RC and RLC circuits.
b Distinguish the effect of L and C in the AC circuit..
c Use basic laboratory measurement equipment including the power supplies, digital multimeters, function generators, and oscilloscopes to conduct experiments.
8 Analyze circuits using total P, Q, S, power factor, and equivalent impedance.
a Calculate the power in resistive AC circuits.
b Understand the concept of apparent power and power triangle.
c Calculate inductive circuit active, reactive, apparent powers and power factor.
d Calculate capacitive circuit active, reactive, apparent powers and power factor.
e Calculate the total active, reactive, apparent powers and power factor for ac circuits.
9 Recognize the basic voltages and currents relations in balanced three phase electric circuits.
a Recognize three phase electric circuits, Delta and Star connections
b Differentiate between the line and phase values
c Calculate the current in three phase balanced load, delta connection
d Calculate the current in three phase balanced load, star connection