Electrical Engineering

Program

1. Channeling of electrical current: flow tubes, port and electrical power, mono-port and multi-port circuit elements, electrical networks.
2. Basic element typologies: voltage and current generators, resistors, diodes, un-dynamic two ports, capacitors, inductors, mutual inductors and their characterization.
3. Topology of electrical networks: elements in series and parallel; complex topologies, topological laws and systems of equations. General principles and theorems of the electrical networks.
4. Electrical networks in steady-state conditions: properties, theorems and methods of analysis.
5. Electrical networks in sinusoidal conditions: sinusoidal electrical quantities, fasors; impedances, ammettances and their synthesis, frequency response and resonance; symbolic networks, properties, theorems and methods of analysis.
6. Basic networks in transient conditions: time evolutions, time constants and generalized impressed and natural frequencies; evolution of circuits of the first and second order; connection in series and parallel of capacitors and inductors; discontinuity of status variables and impulses.
7. Exercises

Learing target

Starting from the knowledge gained in previous courses in mathematics and physics, the course aims at teaching the main properties of electrical networks;
The most important methods for analyzing the electrical networks in steady state, sinusoidal, and transient conditions will be taught as well.

Reference books

1. M. Guarnieri, Elementi di Elettrotecnica circuitale, Ed. Progetto, Padova, 2010.
2. M. Bagatin, et al.: Esercizi di elettrotecnica - reti elettriche, Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, 2004.

Suggested books

1. L.O. Chua, C.A. Desoer, E.S. Kuh: Circuiti lineari e non lineari, Jackson, Milano, 1991.