BTech in Engineering Preparatory Unit (BEPU) in Electronics Engineering

Syllabus

Introduction to circuits and signals.
Introduction - SI Units, Charge and current, electrical potential and voltage, electrical power and energy, Passive sign convention, Ideal voltage and current sources, Resistance and Ohm’s Law, power in resistors, Measuring devices.
Kirchoff’ Laws - Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, Resistances in Series or Parallel, Voltage divider and current divider circuit, Practical voltage and current sources.
DC circuit Analysis using Kirchoff’s Laws- Node analysis (Application of KCL), Mesh Analysis (Application of KVL), Circuits with dependent sources, Superposition Theorem.
Equivalent Circuits - Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits, Source transformation, Maximum power transfer, Nonlinear elements.
Energy Storage (Dynamic) Circuit elements and DC Transient Aalysis- Capacitance, Inductance, Transients, First-order circuits.
AC circuit Analysis - Alternating voltages and currents, Root-man-square value of a sinusoid, Phasors, Impedance, Circuit analysis with phasors and impedances.
Magnetic Circuits and Transformer - Magnetic fields, Magnetic Circuits, Right-hand rule, Forces induced in current-carrying wires in a magnetic field, Voltages induced in a fieldcutting conductor, Ampere’s Law, Self and Mutual Inductances, Ideal Transformer.
Principles of mutual inductance and transformers, diode characteristics, bridge rectifiers. Design of the DC power supply.
Signal Representation - Continuous and discrete time signals, Periodic and non-periodic signals, Bounded and unbounded signals, Deterministic and random signals, Real and complex signals.
Examples of all the above signals : sinusoids, signum functions, unit impulse, unit step functions, rectangular functions, triangle functions, sinc functions, Dirac delta, Dirac comb functions, complex exponential functions.
Spectrum of Continuous Time Signals - Fourier series of continuous periodic signals: sinecosine forms, exponential forms, Fourier transforms of non-periodic signals, Properties of Fourier Transforms, Examples of spectra of sinusoidal functions, arbitrary periodic functions (AM & FM).