ENG 237 Basic Electricity

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Electronics- Revision

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Lecture Topics

Continuous Assessment

[1] DC Circuits
[1] DC Circuits
[1] DC Circuits
[4] AC Circuits
[4] AC Circuits
[4] AC Circuits
[2] First
First-order
order
Transients
[2] First-order
Transients
[3] Transformers
[5] Logic
L i Circuits
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[5] Logic Circuits
[5] Logic Circuits

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

Assessment plan (continuous part)

Components

Remarks

Percentages

Lab report, Logbooks and

Lab Performance

1 Formal Report (15%), 3 Logbooks

(9%) and 3 Lab Performance (6%)

30%

Tests
Assignments

2 Tests (20% each)

6 assignments (5% each)

40%
30%

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

DC circuit
Terms and symbols in circuit analysis: ideal/controlled source,
source network:
node, branch, mesh, and loop.
Sign convention in circuit analysis
Ohms law, and KCL/KVL
DC circuit solution methods
I.
Node voltage method
II
II.
Mesh current method
III.
Thevenins and Nortons equivalent circuits
IV.
Superposition theorem
Maximum power transfer theory

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

AC circuit
Phasor, impedance and their calculations and diagrams:
Phasor
-Magnitude associated with the angle
- resistance and reactance: inductance and capacitance taking AC
frequency into account
Z=R+jX, I = V/Z,
Solving steady state AC circuits containing inductors, capacitors, and AC
sources (circuit laws-kcl/kvl/mesh/nodal
sources.
laws kcl/kvl/mesh/nodal still apply)
p (t ) = v(t ) i (t )

Instantaneous and average power, and AC power notation.

Pav =

1
p (t )dt
T 0

Different powers (real, reactive etc.) and power factor for AC circuits and
load respectively
S = Pav + jQ
Average power
Power
factor
=
= VI cos + jVI sin
Total volt - amperes

= VIe j =VI*
Power distribution and measurement in three-phase systems.

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

DC circuit Time domain analysis

Transient responses of first-order circuits (RL and RC)

VL = L di/dt, Ic = C dV/dt
Universal waveforms of first-order transients.
t t o

Case A: x(t) = x(t o ) + x 1 e

Case B: x(t) = x() + x e

t t o

Procedure:
1.

Find the time constant.

2.

Find the initial and final values.

3.

Determine whether it is Case A or Case B.

Derive expression of transient response for first-order systems.

Determine time constant.

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

Ideal transformer
Dot convention and mutual inductance.
inductance
Analyze
y circuits with coupled
p
inductors and transformer. ((
kcl/kvl/mesh/nodal )
Understand the properties of ideal and linear transformers
transformers. (voltage/
current/impedance)
Use transformer for impedance matching and voltage level adjustment.

Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu

Logic circuits
Numbering system: dec ->
> bin,
bin hex ->
> dec etc.,
etc 2
2s
s complement
Combinational circuit:
K map (or boolean algebra)
K-map
NAND gates and NOR gates only
Sequential
S
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Electrical Engineering, HKPU

ENG237 Ass. Prof Zhao Xu