Overview of DC Circuits:
Introduction to Electric Circuits:
Definition of electric current, voltage, power, and energy.
Passive sign convention.
2. Basic Circuit Elements:
Independent and dependent voltage and current sources.
Ohm's Law and resistors.
Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws (KVL and KCL).
3.Resistive Networks:
Series and parallel combinations of resistors.
Voltage and current division principles.
Wheatstone bridge and delta-star transformation.
4. Techniques of Circuit Analysis:
Node-voltage analysis.
Mesh-current analysis.
Superposition theorem.
Thevenin's and Norton's theorems.
Maximum power transfer theorem.
5. Capacitors and Inductors:
Energy storage in capacitors and inductors.
Time constant in RC and RL circuits.
Transient analysis of first-order circuits.
6. DC Steady-State Analysis:
Analysis of circuits with capacitors and inductors in steady-state.
7. Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction:
Magnetic fields, flux, and Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction.
Mutual inductance.
8. Introduction to AC Circuits:
Sinusoidal sources and phasors (this might be a bridge to the next course in the sequence).
