Basic Electrical Engineering
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Basic Electrical Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Basic Electrical Engineering (subject code 3110005) as prescribed for Common · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3110005)Unit 1 DC Circuits
- Electrical circuit elements (R
- voltage and current sources
- Kirchoff’s current and voltage laws
- analysis of simple circuits with dc excitation
- Thevenin and Norton Theorems
- Time-domain analysis of first-order RL and RC circuits
Unit 2 AC Circuits
- Representation of sinusoidal waveforms
- peak and RMS values
- Phasor representation of AC quantities
- real power
- reactive power
- apparent power
- power factor
- Analysis of single-phase ac circuits consisting of R, L, C, RL, RC, RLC combinations (series and parallel)
- Series and parallel resonance
- Three phase balanced circuits
- voltage and current relations in star and delta connections
- Power measurement in three phase circuits
Unit 3 Transformers
- Magnetic materials
- BH characteristics
- Construction and working principle of single phase and three phase transformers
- Ideal and practical transformer
- Auto-transformer and its applications
Unit 4 Electrical Machines
- Generation of rotating magnetic fields
- Construction and working of following machines: Three-phase induction motor Single-phase induction motor. Separately excited DC motor. Synchronous generators
Unit 5 Electrical Installations
- Components of LT Switchgear: Switch Fuse Unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB
- Types of Wires and Cables
- Earthing – Types of earthing and its importance
- Safety precautions for electrical appliances
- Types of Batteries
- Important Characteristics for Batteries
- Elementary calculations for energy consumption
- Basics of power factor improvement
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