Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I

Course title: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I

Code: FEIT06Z001

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+2+1+0

Institute: Electro, Electrical Welding and Electrical Traction

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course goals/Competences: Introduction to basic concepts and phenomena of electrostatic field and DC electric circuits and methods of analysis.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Electric field. Gauss's law.  Electric forces and work. Electric potential, potential difference and voltage. Electric dipole. Conductors in electric field. Electrostatic induction. Capaticitance and capacitors. Electric field in dielectrics, polarization. Generalized Gauss's law - Maxwell's postulate. Electric flux density. Boundary conditions. Electrostatic energy. Current and vector of current density. Continuity law - frst Kirchhoff's law. Ohm law. Resistivity and conductivity. Joule's law. Generators, e.m.f. and generalized Ohm's law. Electric network and second Kirchhoff's law. Energy transformation in the electric circuit. Current and voltage generators. Circuit methods of analysis. Superposition theorem. Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorem. C circuits. Transients in RC circuits.

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