| Lectures and exercises |
hours |
| Topics |
Specific contents |
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| Electric charges and current density field |
Free charges, charge density. Current and current density, charge balance law. |
3
|
| Electrical forces and voltages |
Electrical forces and fields. Electrical work, voltage. Scalar potential, equipotential surfaces. Specific electrical work, voltage and power. |
4
|
| Resistive phenomena |
Ohm's and Joule's laws. Electrical resistance, material electrical conductivity. Constitutive law. General expressions for the electrical resistance. |
4
|
| Electrical generators |
No-load behaviour, electromotive forces. Behaviour under load. Power balance. Voltage measurements in the generators. Types of generators. |
3
|
| Steady-state network analysis |
From the electromagnetic fields to the electrical circuits. Electric power and work. Amperometer, voltmeter, wattmeter. Kirchhoff's laws. Circuits topology. Node potentials and loop currents methods. Theorems about dipoles circuits. Passive affine double dipoles. Synthesis of double dipoles. Driven generators. |
15
|
| Electrostatic field |
Electrostatic potential. Faraday’s experience, electric induction. Conductive bodies. Polarisation, constitutive laws for dielectric materials. Laplace and Poisson equations. Boundary conditions. Capacitor, partial capacitances. Electrostatic energy and specific energy. |
12
|
| Magnetic field and magnetic circuits |
Faraday-Neumann’s and Lenz laws. Magnetic induction, magnetic vector potential. Magnetic field vector, Ampere's law. Displacement current density. Maxwell equations. Laplace and Poisson equations. Boundary conditions. Magnetisation, constitutive laws. Magnetic hysteresis. Self and mutual inductance coefficients. Magnetisation work and energy.
Scalar magnetic potential, reluctance and permeance, Hopkinson's law. Ferromagnetic nuclei, Kirchhoff's laws for magnetic circuits. Circuits with permanent magnets, inductors with ferromagnetic nuclei.
|
18
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| Circuit behaviour of capacitors and inductors |
Response to the main types of input waveforms. Charge and discharge, time constant. Capacitors and inductors in series and in parallel, equivalent circuits. |
5
|
| Periodical and sinusoidal quantities |
Periodical quantities. Description in the time and in the complex domains. Phasors. Operations with sinusoidal and phasorial quantities |
2
|
| Networks in sinusoidal regime |
Kirchhoff's laws. Impedance, admittance. Synthesis of impedances /admittances. Power. Theorems for the circuits in sinusoidal regime. Analysis in the frequency domain, resonance. Inductive double dipoles. |
14
|
| Three phases-systems |
Delta and Y connections for loads and generators. Balanced loads. Power, measures |
2
|
| Networks in periodical non-sinusoidal regime |
Representation as Fourier's series. Power. Generators. Circuit analysis methods. |
5
|
| Network analysis in variable regime |
Overview. Initial conditions. Analysis in the time domain. Homogeneous differential equation solution, free evolution. Particular solutions. Use of Laplace transform. |
9
|
| Total hours for lectures and exercises |
96 |
| for exercises only |
20 |
|
Further educational activities
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hours
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| Labs |
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| Tutorials / Seminars |
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| Workshops |
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| Guided tours |
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| Total hours for further educational activities |
0 |
| Total hours |
96
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