DC Circuit
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The official GTU curriculum for DC Circuit (subject code DI01000081) as prescribed for RE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 18 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 (DI01000081)Unit 1 Fundamentals of Electrical Circuits Contents
- (1) Concepts of electric charge
- electric current
- current density
- potential difference
- emf-voltage (2) Define terms: Resistance
- Conductance and Conductivity and factors affecting resistance of a material (3) Conductors
- semiconductor and insulator: properties and effect of temperature on resistance of various material (4) Ohm’s law: application and limitations (5) Concepts of work
- power and energy (6) Joule’s law of heating
Unit 2 Electrical Circuit Laws and Techniques Contents
- (1) Kirchhoff’s laws (Kirchhoff’s current law and Kirchhoff’s voltage law) (2) Series and parallel connections of resistors and equivalent resistance (3) Source transformation techniques
- series and parallel connections of battery-cells and equivalent source voltage (4) Voltage and current divider rules (5) Star-Delta transformation
Unit 3 Electrical Network Theorems 09 17 %
- Program Name: Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Electrical Engineering/ Renewable Energy Course / Subject Code : DI01000081 Course / Subject Name : DC Circuit Contents: (1) Concepts of electric circuit topology (2) Superposition theorem (3) Thevenin’s theorem (4) Norton’s theorem (5) Maximum power transfer theorem
Unit 4 Electrostatics and Capacitors Contents
- (1) Terms related to electrostatics and Coulomb’s law (2) Capacitors: definition
- factor affecting capacitance types and application (3) Series - parallel connection of capacitors and equivalent capacitance (4) Charging / discharging of capacitor: State equations of voltage and current
- draw curves and define RC time constant
Unit 5 Magnetic circuit and Electromagnetic Induction Contents
- (1) Magnetic field of conductor and solenoid: right hand rule and end rule (2) Magnetic circuits: overview
- terms regarding to magnetic circuit and comparison with electrical circuits (3) Faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction: types of induced emf, Fleming’s right-hand rule
- Fleming’s left-hand rule and Lenz’s law (4) Coefficient of self and mutual inductance (5) Series and parallel connections of inductors (6) Inductor: types
- construction and applications