Lecturer: Antonio Savini  

Course name: Electrical Engineering
Course code: 500547
Degree course: Ingegneria Industriale
Disciplinary field of science: ING-IND/31
L'insegnamento è caratterizzante per: Ingegneria Industriale
University credits: ECTS 9
Course website: n.d.

Specific course objectives

Knowledge of electrical quantities and units involved in the study of circuits; knowledge of linear one-port systems and their energy properties; knowledge of circuit laws and their numerical implementation; ability to solve simple circuit problems in DC, low and high frequency, in resonance or transient conditions.

Course programme

DC circuits
Basic electrical quantities. One-port systems and their voltage-current characteristic. Ohm’s law. Power balance. Electric circuits. Nodes and loops. Kirchhoff’s laws. Linear circuit analysis. Circuit theorems.

AC circuits
Capacitor. Inductor. Signals in the time-domain and their representation. Circuit analysis in the frequency domain. Phasors. Impedance and admittance. Real, imaginary and complex power. Frequency response of a passive one-port system. Resonance. Two-port systems.

Circuit analysis in the time-domain
Analysis of a linear circuit of the n-th order. Natural frequencies, initial values, transient state and steady-state. Linear circuits of the first order. Linear circuits of the second order.

Course entry requirements

Linear algebra, complex numbers, derivatives and integrals.

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 68
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

C.A. Desoer, E.S. Kuh. Fondamenti di teoria dei circuiti. Franco Angeli, Milano.

A. Savini. Argomenti di elettrotecnica con esercizi. Ed. Spiegel, Milano.

Testing and exams

The final examination consists of a written test and an interview.