GTU 3110005 Basic Electrical Engineering: Syllabus

Sr. No. TopicsTeaching HoursModule Weightage
1DC Circuits:
Electrical circuit elements (R, L and C), voltage and current sources, Kirchoff’s current and voltage laws, analysis of simple circuits with dc excitation.
Superposition, Thevenin and Norton Theorems. Time-domain analysis of first-order RL and RC circuits.		820 %
2AC Circuits:
Representation of sinusoidal waveforms, peak and RMS values, Phasor representation of AC quantities, real power, reactive power, apparent power, power factor.
Analysis of single-phase ac circuits consisting of R, L, C, RL, RC, RLC combinations (series and parallel), Series and parallel resonance.
Three phase balanced circuits, voltage and current relations in star and delta connections, Power measurement in three phase circuits.		1025 %
3Transformers:
Magnetic materials, BH characteristics. Construction and working principle of single phase and three phase transformers.
Ideal and practical transformer.
Auto-transformer and its applications.		815 %
4Electrical Machines:
Generation of rotating magnetic fields.
Construction and working of following machines: Three-phase induction motorSingle-phase induction motor.Separately excited DC motor.Synchronous generators.		820 %
5Electrical Installations:
Components of LT Switchgear: Switch Fuse Unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB, MCCB.
Types of Wires and Cables.
Earthing – Types of earthing and its importance. Safety precautions for electrical appliances. Types of Batteries, Important Characteristics for Batteries.
Elementary calculations for energy consumption. Basics of power factor improvement.		820 %

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