Electrical Circuits Wyklad 1
Electrical Circuits Wyklad 1
Electrical Circuits Wyklad 1
Ayyaz Ali
Room 22 3rd floor
[email protected]
Credits for the course:
•4 annouced quizes
•4 assignments
•1 Project
•MID term Exam
•Final term Exam
Note: Class timings should be strictly followed, students entering class later than 5
Minutes will miss their attendance for that day.
75% attendance is mandatory for all students in order to be allowed for exams.
Course description
In the course of ENA, emphasis is laid upon the analysis of second
order circuits in both time and frequency domain. Network theorems
are explored to compute and evaluate response of circuits for various
synthesized input signals. Concepts of impedance and network
functions are reconnoitered along with poles, zeros and frequency
response plots to perform stability analysis of electrical networks. Two
port models of electrical networks and their parameters are also
studied.
Electric Circuit
• An electric circuit is an interconnection of electrical
elements.
• A circuit consists of a mesh of loops
Represented as branches and
nodes in an undirected graph.
Circuit components reside in
the branches
Connectivity resides in the
nodes
Nodes represent wires
Wires represent
equipotentials
Charge
Basic SI unit, measured in Coulombs (C)
Counts the number of electrons (or positive charges)
present.
Charge of single electron is 1.602*10-19 C
One Coulomb = 6.24*1018 electrons.
Charge is always multiple of electron charge
Charge cannot be created or destroyed, only
transferred.
Current
The movement of charge.
We always note the direction of the equivalent positive
charges, even if the moving charges are negative.
It is the time derivative of charge passing through a
circuit branch
dq
i
dt
Unit is Ampere (A), is one Coulomb/second
Customarily represented by i (AC) or I (DC).
Voltage
a difference in electric potential
always taken between two points.
It is a line integral of the force exerted by an electric
field on a unit charge.
Customarily represented by v(AC) or V (DC).
The SI unit is the Volt [V].
Power
Power is the product of voltage by current.
It is the time derivative of energy delivered to or
extracted from a circuit branch.
Customarily represented by P or S or W.
The SI unit is the Watt [W].
AC vs. DC circuits
• Direct Current (DC) is a
current that remains constant
with time
• A common source of DC is a
battery.
• A current that varies sinusoidally
with time is called Alternating
Current (AC)
• Mains power is an example of AC
AC analysis
AC signal eg. voltage switches polarity over time. The
signal graphed over time takes on sine wave. The
reason for such "shape" of the signal derives from the
Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction. We can
describe the sine function both by sinus or cosinus
function:
If in the circuit there are two or more sources and all of them generates the same
sinus or cosinus function we do need make the above conversions. If some sources
are described by sine function, and some by cosine function we need to convert
them all have the same function. Because of power analysis the AC voltage is often
expressed as a root mean square (RMS) value, written as VRMS. For the
sinusoidal waveform:
AC analysis
Considering two AC signals in the circuit eg two voltages or
currents or voltage and current, we can define the phase shift. It
mean that two or more waveforms are out of step with each
other. The amount of phase shift can be expressed in terms of
degrees or radians on the horizontal axis of the waveform the
trigonometric sine function. A leading waveform is defined as
one waveform that is ahead of another. The waveform which is
behind is a lagging waveform.
AC circuit analysis must take into consideration both amplitude
and phase shift of voltage and current waveforms. This requires
the use of a mathematical system called complex numbers.
Basic theories and network analysis for AC circuit is analogous
for AC and DC circuits but using complex numbers to describe
the signals. After considering the voltages and currents in
complex domain, we rewrite them to time domain.
Complex Numbers in AC analysis
Phasor Diagram of a Sinusoidal
Waveform
Analysing the voltages and currents in the circuit, we
describe them “frozen” at some point in time. Then we
can represent magnitude and direction by the the
vector (Phasor) as a scaled line.
The positive rotation of the phase in phasor diagram is
anti-clockwise rotation.
Then in the phasor diagram we can show the relation
between currents and voltages in phase and
magnitude. Below there are some examples of the
phasor diagram.
Phasor Diagram of a Sinusoidal
Waveform
Basic circuit elements - resistor
Resistors are circuit elements that resist the flow of current. When this
is done a voltage appears across the resistor's two wires.
A pure resistor turns electrical energy into heat. Devices similar to
resistors turn this energy into light, motion, heat, and other forms of
energy.
where ρ is the resistivity of the material, L is the length of the resistor, and A is the
cross-sectional area of the resistor.
Conductance is the inverse of resistance. Conductance has units of "Siemens" (S). The
associated variable is "G":
1
G
r
Basic circuit elements - inductor
Where ε is the permittivity of the dielectric material between the plates, A is the
surface area of each plate, d is the distance between the plates.
Basic circuit elements – capacitor (2)
The dependence between the charge and voltage is:
A capacitor is an open circuit to dc (dv/dt = 0). And its voltage cannot change
abruptly (depends on integral of i).
Impedance of AC components
When talking about the AC circuits we talk about the impedance
rather than resistance. It is denoted as Z and compose of resistance R
(the part from resistors) and reactance X (the part from inductors and
capacitors). The SI unit of impedance is the Ohm (symbol ).
For the DC
For the AC
The currents flowing into the node (I1, I6) we describe as positive, the
currents flowing out the node (I2, I3, I4, I5) we describe as negative.
Kirchhoff’s Second Law -
Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)
The algebraic sum of the potential rises and drops
around a closed loop or path is zero.
To use the KVL one need to set up a rotation in the circuit. Potentials with direction
of the circuit have a positive sign, voltage opposite to the direction of circulation of
the circuit have a negative sign.
Series Connection
All components are connected end-to-end.
or
Series-Parallel Connection
Typical circuits have some series
connected components in some parts
of the circuit and parallel in others.
Then it is impossible to apply a single
set of rules to the all circuit. Instead, it
is possible to identify which parts of
that circuit are series and which parts
are parallel, then selectively apply
series and parallel rules.
Delta-Y conversions
In many applications circuits or fragments of circuits form
a three-terminal network. Components are then connected
together in one of two ways: the “Delta,” or (also known as
the “Pi,” or ) configuration, and the “Y” (also known as the
“T”) configuration.
The Delta (left side) and (right side) configuration take the
form presented below:
Delta-Y conversions
The Y (left side) and T (right side) configuration take
the form presented below:
Delta-Y conversions