AC Electrical Circuits Theory

General Data
Academic program	Formation ECAM LaSalle Ingénieur spécialité Mécanique et Génie Electrique (ENGINEERING PROGRAM)			:
Type d'EC	Classes (LIIEEng02EACElecCir)
Lectures : 12h00 Tutorials : 18h00 Lab Work : 4h00 Total duration : 66h00	Status :	Period : Semester 2	Education language : English

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1- Perform a phasor and inverse phasor transform, and transform a circuit with a sinusoidal source into the frequency domain. 2- Analyze AC circuit and use circuit analysis techniques to solve a circuit in the frequency domain: Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current division, node-voltage and mesh-current methods, Thevenin and Norton theorems, source transformation, superposition principle. 3- Define and calculate power (average, reactive, complex powers and power factor) in a sinusoidal AC circuit. 4- Calculate the transfer function for a circuit and represent its frequency response using Bode plot. 5- Describe first and second order passive filter configurations and design circuit component values to meet filter specifications 6- Calculate the Laplace and inverse Laplace transform of a function and analyze linear electric circuit in the s-domain

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1- Perform a phasor and inverse phasor transform, and transform a circuit with a sinusoidal source into the frequency domain.
2- Analyze AC circuit and use circuit analysis techniques to solve a circuit in the frequency domain: Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current division, node-voltage and mesh-current methods, Thevenin and Norton theorems, source transformation, superposition principle.
3- Define and calculate power (average, reactive, complex powers and power factor) in a sinusoidal AC circuit.
4- Calculate the transfer function for a circuit and represent its frequency response using Bode plot.
5- Describe first and second order passive filter configurations and design circuit component values to meet filter specifications
6- Calculate the Laplace and inverse Laplace transform of a function and analyze linear electric circuit in the s-domain

Content
1- Sinusoidal signal. 2- Phasor and inverse phasor transform 3- Impedance/admittance and relationships for circuit elements in frequency domain. 4- Main steps to analyze AC circuits. 5- Methods for circuit analysis: Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current division, node-voltage and mesh-current methods, Thevenin and Norton theorems, source transformation, superposition principle. 6- AC power analysis: Instantaneous & average power, reactive power, complex and apparent power, Conservation of AC power, RMS value, Power factor correction, Maximum average power transfer 7- Frequency response, transfert function and Bode plots. 8- RL, RC circuit configurations acting as low-pass filters and high-pass filters 9- Series resonance and Parallel resonance 10- RLC circuit configurations acting as bandpass filters and Bandstop filters 11- A tool for advanced circuit analysis: Laplace transform

Content

1- Sinusoidal signal.
2- Phasor and inverse phasor transform
3- Impedance/admittance and relationships for circuit elements in frequency domain.
4- Main steps to analyze AC circuits.
5- Methods for circuit analysis: Kirchhoff's laws, voltage and current division, node-voltage and mesh-current methods, Thevenin and Norton theorems, source transformation, superposition principle.
6- AC power analysis: Instantaneous & average power, reactive power, complex and apparent power, Conservation of AC power, RMS value, Power factor correction, Maximum average power transfer
7- Frequency response, transfert function and Bode plots.
8- RL, RC circuit configurations acting as low-pass filters and high-pass filters
9- Series resonance and Parallel resonance
10- RLC circuit configurations acting as bandpass filters and Bandstop filters
11- A tool for advanced circuit analysis: Laplace transform

Pre-requisites / co-requisites
Mathematics for engineers - Level 1 DC Electric Circuits

Bibliography
Essential resources: - Nilsson, J. W., and Riedel, S. (2019). Electric Circuits, 11th Edition, Pearson

Assessment(s)
N°	Nature	Coefficient	Observable objectives
1	Practical work	0,20
2	Midterm 1	0,15	Written exam
3	Midterm 2	0,15	Written exam
4	Final exam	0,50	Written exam