EL 158 - Electrical Circuits II

• distribution of voltage and current in series/parallel DC networks;
• advanced methods of circuit analysis for DC circuits such as source conversion, superposition, and Thevenin theorem;
• alternating current and voltage; sine waveform and values;
• capacitors or inductors in DC/AC circuits, energy storage and time constant; phase relationship;
• complex numbers;
• polar/rectangular conversions;
• vector representation; and
• alternating current RL, RC, and RLC series circuits.

• understand theoretical concepts as they apply to electrical circuits;
• understand and correctly use electrical terminology, symbols, and units;
• identify basic components and determine their function in various types of circuits;
• apply electrical theory and concepts to determine the circuital values of voltage, current, and power;
• describe the difference between DC and AC as they apply to electrical circuits with passive components;
• apply AC phasor and vector theory to combinational series RLC circuits and determine the voltages, currents, impedance, phase angle, apparent power, true power, reactive power; and
• employ a systematic and methodical approach to mathematically solving circuital problems.