
Explore basic electrical concepts, including series and parallel resistor networks, equivalent resistance, current and voltage relationships via Ohm's law, and how voltmeters, ammeters, galvanometers, and grounding are used.
learn nodal analysis to solve circuits by selecting a reference node, writing node equations, and converting sources to simplify calculations; compute node voltages and branch currents.
Apply nodal analysis with current sources to solve circuits with multiple nodes and a reference ground, using Kirchhoff's current law, conductances, and a system of equations.
Explain how alternating voltages and currents arise from rotating a coil in a magnetic field, and from a rotating magnetic field in a stationary coil, via induced emf.
Explore AC through a pure resistor, showing voltage and current in phase, derive instantaneous and average power, and relate peak and rms values to resistance under varying frequency.
Explore ac through capacitance by analyzing capacitor charging, deriving voltage and current relations, and illustrating power with current leading voltage and zero average power in 50 hz 230 v setup.
Analyze a series resistor-inductor circuit using the impedance triangle to relate voltage and current, then compute current, real and reactive power, and the power factor.
An introductory treatment of ac through resistance and capacitance, deriving impedance, phase angles, and power in a series rc circuit using phasor diagrams.
Explore ac circuits with resistance, inductance, and capacitance, analyze voltage and current phase relationships, and build the impedance triangle to compute net impedance.
Electrical resonance occurs in a series RLC circuit when net reactance cancels and the impedance is minimized. It derives the resonant frequency using LC values.
Define magnetic flux as the number of field lines crossing a plane perpendicular to the magnetic field, and define flux density as the flux per unit area measured in tesla.
Learn magnetic field strength, denoted by H, its units, and how a pole experiences force; relate this to magnetic potential defined as work to move from infinity against the field.
Explore the intensity of magnetization as the flux density produced by a material's own induced magnetism, connecting magnetic moment, volume, and unit area to define magnetization.
Learn how magnetic motive force drives flux through a magnetic circuit, opposed by reluctance, with flux equal to mmf divided by reluctance, and parallels to electric circuits.
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) What is the need of a Transformer in a power system?
(2) Where the transformers are used in the power system?
(3) How does the use of a transformer reduce losses while transmitting electrical power?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What is the working Principle of the Transformer?
(2) What are the different types of losses in Transformer?
(3) What is meant by the ideal Transformer?
(4) What is an EMF Equation of Transformer?
(5) How Transformer behaves on No-Load?
(6) What are different Types of Transformer?
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) How transformer is represented by using a single-phase electrical equivalent circuit?
(2) How to calculate the efficiency of the transformer?
(3) What is meant by regulation of transformer?
(4) Why does the terminal voltage of the transformer reduces as the load on the transformer increases?
(5) What is the working principle of the 3-Ph transformer?
(6) How auto-transformer works?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What is the need of an electrical motor?
(2) How Electrical Motors are classified?
(3) What are the industrial applications of Electrical Motors?
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) What are the different parts of DC Motor?
(2) What is the function of field and armature winding in DC Motor?
(3) Why core of the DC Motor is laminated?
(4) What is the function of armature slots?
(5) What is the need of a Commutator in DC Motor?
(6) What is the function of Yoke in DC Motor?
(7) Why commutator is segmented?
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) What is Fleming's left-hand rule?
(2) How does DC motor works?
(3) Why is it necessary to reverse the direction of current in armature conductors as armature conductor passes from one pole to another pole?
(4) What is the role of the commutator in DC Motor and how it is different from slip rings?
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) How to represent DC Motor using its Electrical Equivalent circuit?
(2) What is the voltage Equation of DC Motor?
(3) What is the concept of back EMF in DC Motor?
(4) Why EMF induced in armature winding of DC Motor is called back EMF?
(5) What is the torque equation of DC Motor?
(6) How DC Motors are classified?
This lecture answers the following questions
(1) Why torque generated by the DC shunt motor does not depend on the field current?
(2) Why the speed of the DC shunt motor drops as the load on the motor increases?
(3) Why the different characteristics of the DC series motor are non-linear?
(4) Why starting torque of the DC series motor is very high?
(5) Why should a DC series motor never be started on no-load?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) How AC Motors are classified?
(2) What are the different parts of Induction Motor?
(3) What is the function of the stator in the case of 3-Ph Induction Motor?
(4) What is the constructional difference between 3-Phase Squirrel Cage Inductions Motor and 3-Phase slip ring Inductions Motor?
(5) What is the function of End rings in the case of 3-Phase Squirrel Cage Inductions Motor?
(6) What is the role of slip rings in the case of 3-Phase slip ring Inductions Motor?
(7) Why the stator and rotor of the Induction Motor are laminated?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What is meant by rotating the magnetic field?
(2) How induction motor set into rotation?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What are the different types of single-phase motors?
(2) How a single-phase motor is similar to 3 phase motor?
(3) What is a major difference between a 3-phase induction motor and a single-phase induction motor?
(4) Why single phase induction motor does not self-start?
(5) What is a basic method to start a single-phase induction motor and why it is not preferred?
(6) How does capacitor start induction run motor works?
(7) How to make Single-Phase Induction Motor Self-Starting?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What are the different types of power electronics-based converters?
(2) What are the industrial applications of different types of converters?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) How half-wave diode rectifier works when connected to resistive load?
(2) How full-wave diode rectifier works when connected to resistive load?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) How half-bridge DC-AC converter works?
(2) How full-bridge DC-AC converter works?
(3) What is the RMS value of output voltage of half-bridge and full-bridge converter?
This lecture answers the following questions,
(1) What is the need of a DC-DC converter?
(2) Where DC-DC converter is used?
(3) How buck converter works?
(4) How boost converter works?
Explore various wires and cables in electrical installations, including indian rubber insulation, cotton moisture protection, pvc insulation, and armored vs unarmored cable construction.
Focus on the switch fuse unit, a compact single-phase device with an on-off switch and porcelain fuses in a metal enclosure, protected by a door interlock to ensure safe operation.
MCB and MCCB protect electrical installations by disconnecting circuits during overload or short circuits, with MCBs for low-power use and MCCBs for high-power applications.
Explain how a current-operated RCCB (residual current circuit breaker) detects earth leakage by comparing phase and neutral currents on a shared iron core, tripping on imbalance to protect people.
The course on Basic Electrical Engineering is offered almost in all universities at the first-year level for all Engineering branches. Topics such as DC Circuits, Single-phase and three-phase AC Circuits, Magnetic Circuits, Single-phase and three-phase transformers, AC and DC Machines, Power converters, wires cables, MCB, MCCB, SFU, etc. are generally included in the course. This course focuses on different concepts presented in the topics mentioned above along with numerical questions. Moreover, all lectures are explained with simple clear and language using colored diagrams.
After taking this course, the learners should be able to,
1) Explain different theorems used to solve Electrical Engineering circuits.
2) Solve Electrical Engineering circuits to find out current in a specific branch of an electrical circuit.
3) Explain the working of elementary AC generator which generates AC voltage.
4) Explain different terms used to define AC quantities.
5) Solve single-phase AC circuits consisting of resistance, inductance, and capacitance.
6) Explain the concept of MMF, reluctance, magnetic field intensity, permeability, magnetic fringing etc.
7) Solve series and parallel magnetic circuits.
8) Explain construction and working of single phase, three phase and auto-transformer.
9) Compute efficiency and regulation of transformer.
10) Explain construction and working of DC motors, single phase and three phase Induction Motors.
11) Plot the characteristics of Electrical motors.
12) Classify Electrical motors.
13) Explain working of diode rectifier, inverters and DC-DC converters.
14) Explain working of switch fuse unit, MCB, MCCB, ELCB.
15) Explain concept of earthing.
This course serves as a foundation to learn advanced courses in basic electrical engineering.