Ac Circuits
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Ac Circuits Syllabus โ Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Ac Circuits (subject code 3330901) as prescribed for EC ยท Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 17 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 (3330901)Unit 1 AC Fundament als
- 1.1. Principle of generating an alternating voltage
- 1.2. Cycle, Time period, Frequency, Amplitude, Phase and Phase difference, Average value, R.M.S. value, Form factor, Peak Factor and Power Factor
- 1.3. Vector representation of alternating quantities, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Unit 2 AC Series circuits
- 2.1. Waveforms, phasor diagram and expression of voltage, current and power in pure: Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance 2b.Explain behaviour of AC voltage, current and power through RL, RC and RLC series circuit with sketches
- 2.2. AC through RL, RC, LC, RLC series circuit
- 2.3. Resonant frequency and Resonance condition in RLC series circuit
Unit 3 AC Parallel Circuits
- 3.1. Solution of AC RL, RC, LC and RLC parallel circuits using phasor method.
- 3.2. Solution of AC RL, RC, LC and RLC parallel circuits using admittance method.
- 3.3. Resonant frequency and resonance condition in parallel AC circuits
- 3.4. Numerical based on AC parallel circuits and parallel resonance.
Unit 4 Poly phase circuits
- 4.1. Principle of generation of three phase alternating voltage.
- 4.2. Line and phase voltage, line and phase current
- 4.3. Single and three phase circuits
- 4.4. Three-phase star connection
- 4.5. Three phase delta connection AC Circuits Course code: 3330901 GTU/NITTTR/Bhopal/12-13 Gujarat State 3 Unit Major Learning Outcomes (Course Outcomes in Cognitive Domain according to NBA terminology) Topics and Sub-topics
Unit 5 Power in AC Circuits
- 5.1. Active, reactive and apparent power with examples.
- 5.2. Lagging, leading power and unity power factor