MTRE 2110: Electric Circuits and Machines

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: PHYS 2212L
This course covers the basics of circuitry including resistors, capacitors, and inductors in DC and AC circuits. AC power is examined so that devices that generate, transform, switch, and protect electrical power can be covered. Basic circuit analysis includes resistive circuits, voltage and current sources, analysis methods, network theorems, energy storage elements, and AC steady state analysis. DC and Stepper Motors construction with proper sizing and gearing concepts will be studied to select them based on application.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Apply voltage division, current division, element combination, and/or source conversion to analyze or simplify a circuit having series and/or parallel elements.
Compute Ohms and Kirchhoff laws
Use nodal or mesh analysis, to write a complete set of equations for a circuit having voltage sources, current sources, and a dependent source.
Analyze or simplify a circuit using principles such as superposition, Thevenin/Norton equivalence, maximum power transfer, and delta-wye conversion.
Determine the voltage or current equation for an element in a transient RC or RL circuit having a nonzero initial and/or final voltage or current.
Compute phasors and impedances to analyze a sinusoidal steady state circuit.
Perform basic calculations related to resonance, RC filtering, or transformer action.
Compute the power factor for a circuit or element, real, reactive, and apparent power.
Compute the energy storage and consumption over time.
Analyze the AC and DC machines, basic construction, and principals.