Basic Electrical Engineering
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Follow on Instagram for UpdatesBasic Electrical Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Basic Electrical Engineering (subject code BE01000051) as prescribed for CS-Cyber · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 61 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 (BE01000051)Unit 1 DC Circuits
- Electrical circuit elements (R
- voltage and current independent sources
- Kirchoff’s current and voltage laws
- analysis of simple circuits with dc excitation
- Thevenin and Norton Theorems
- Star- delta/Delta-Star conversion
- Time-domain analysis of first-order RL and RC circuits
Unit 2 AC Circuits
- Representation of sinusoidal waveforms
- RMS and average values of different signals
- form factor and peak factor
- 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 resonances
- Three phase balanced circuits
- voltage and current relations in star and delta connections
- Power measurement in three phase balanced circuits
Unit 3 Magnetic Circuits & Transformers
- Magnetic effect of electrical current
- cross and dot convention
- right hand thumb rule and cork screw rule
- Concepts of m.m.f
- flux density
- permeability and field strength
- Analogy between electric and magnetic circuits
- Magnetic Circuits
- Hysteresis Loop
- Hysteresis and Eddy current losses
- Construction and working principle of single-phase transformers: Construction
- principle of working
- voltage and current ratios
- definition of regulation and efficiency
- Ideal and practical transformer
Unit 4 Fundamentals of Electrical Machines
- Generation of rotating magnetic fields
- Construction and working of Single-phase induction motors (Split phase
- Capacitor start
- Permanent split capacitor
- Capacitor start/capacitor run)
- Single phase induction motor applications: pumps
- compressors, and portable drills
- Construction and working of brushless DC motors and its application: Electrical Vehicle
- washing machines
- Computers/Laptops Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: ALL Course / Subject Code: BE01R00051 Course / Subject Name: Basic Electrical Engineering
Unit 5 Electrical Wiring and Installations
- Components of LT Switchgear: Switch Fuse Unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB
- Types of lamps
- fixtures & reflectors
- illumination schemes for domestic
- industrial & commercial premises
- Lumen requirements for different categories
- Earthing – Types of earthing and its importance
- Safety precautions for electrical appliances
- Types of Batteries
- Characteristics of Batteries (Voltage
- storage capacity
- discharge curve
- cycle life)
- Elementary calculations for energy consumption of home appliances and electricity bill
- Basic electrical measurements with Ammeter
- Wattmeter and Energy meter (working principle and circuit connection)
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