Syllabus

UNIT 1
BASICS OF CIRCUIT ANALYSIS: Review of active and passive elements-Voltage–
Current relationship for passive elements-Review of Kirchhoff’s laws- network reduction
techniques- series, parallel, series parallel circuits.
Review of fundamentals of ac circuits, inductance and capacitance parameters, Concept
of Reactance, Impedance, Susceptance and Admittance, Steady state analysis of R, L and
C (in series, parallel and series parallel combinations) with sinusoidal excitation- power
factor, Real and Reactive powers, Complex and Polar forms of representation, Complex
power.
Definitions – Graph – Tree, Basic cut-set and Basic Tie-set matrices for planar networks
– Loop - Duality & Dual networks.

UNIT II
NETWORK THEOREMS FOR DC AND AC CIRCUITS: Review of loop and nodal
methods of analysis, star-to-delta or delta-to-star transformation, Source transformation
Superposition theorem, Thevenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem, reciprocity theorem,
compensation theorem, Maximum power transfer theorem, Millman’s theorem and
Tellegen’s theorem.

UNIT – III
COUPLED CIRCUITS, RESONANCE AND THREE PHASE CIRCUITS:
Resonance – Series and parallel resonance circuits- Concept of band width and Q factor.
Coupled Circuits: Faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction – Concept of self and
mutual inductance – dot convention – coefficient of coupling- linear transformer- Ideal
transformer
Three phase circuits: Phase sequence – Star and delta connection – Relation between
line and phase voltages and currents in balanced systems – Analysis of balanced and
Unbalanced 3 phase circuits – two watt meter method to measure power and power
factor.

UNIT – IV
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS: Initial conditions in elements-Evaluating initial conditions
in networks-Transient response of R-L, R-C, R-L-C circuits (Series combinations only)
for impulse, step, pulse and sinusoidal excitations -Solution using differential equation
approach and Laplace transform methods of solutions- Response of circuits for nonsinusoidal
periodic inputs

UNIT – V
NETWORK FUNCTIONS AND PARAMETERS: Network functions: The concept of
complex frequency-Transform impedance and transform circuits- driving point
impedance and admittance-transfer function-poles and zeros.
Two port network parameters – Z, Y, ABCD, hybrid parameters and their relations–
concept of transformed network – 2-port network parameters using transformed
variables.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. P. Ramesh Babu “Circuit Analysis” Scitech publications Pvt. Ltd, Second edition,
2009
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REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. William Hayt and Jack E. Kimmerly, “Engineering circuit analysis” McGraw Hill
Company, 6th edition.
2. N.C. Jagan & C.Lakshminarayana, ‘Network Theory’ B.S Publications, 2006.
3. Kuriakose, “Circuit Theory”, PHI Learning, 2005