20802130 - Basics of Electrical Engineering

The course aims at providing students the basic concepts of electrical engineering, regarding the analysis of electrical circuits and the principles of operating of electrical appliances and systems
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Programme


From fields to circuits: the limits and validity of the circuit theory. Circuit elements and electrical components. Dipoles. Nodes, branches and network. Kirchhoff's laws. Connections in series and in parallel. Conventions of the generators and users. Electric power. Tellegen's theorem. Linearity, time-invariance, memory. Constitutive laws of passive dipoles: resistor, inductor, capacitor, voltage ideal generators and current ideal generator, mutual inductances, ideal transformer. Analysis of networks without memory: general methods of nodes and mesh nets equivalent. Substitution theorem. Superposition theorem. Theorem of Thevenin-Norton. RLC networks of the first and second order. Permanent and transient response. Free and forced response. Analysis in permanent schemes. Sinusoidal. Phasor method. Concept of impedance and admittance in the frequency domain. Active, reactive and complex power. Notes on harmonic regime and the Fourier series. Symmetrical three-phase systems, unbalanced or balanced, star or delta, three or four wires. Power in three-phase systems. Power factor correction. Methods of measurement of power in three-phase systems. Magnetic circuits. Rotating magnetic field. Notes on electrical machines: single-phase transformers, asynchronous and synchronous machine.

Core Documentation

C. K. Alexander e M. Sadiku, Circuiti Elettrici, McGraw Hill, V edizione
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Reference Bibliography

CHARLES A. DESOER, ERNEST S. KU, FONDAMENTI DI TEORIA DEI CIRCUITI, Franco Angeli editore

Type of delivery of the course

The course has frontal lessons where both theory and exercitations about circuits are proposed

Attendance

Attendance is optional, but recommended

Type of evaluation

The exam consists in the discussed solution of some excercises about resistive and dynamical circuits.