Basic Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Book excerpt: UNIT I - ELECTRICAL CIRCUITSBasic circuit components, Ohms Law - Kirchoff's Law - Instantaneous Power - Inductors - Capacitors - Independent and Dependent Sources - steady state solution of DC circuits - Nodal analysis, Mesh analysis- Thevinin's Theorem, Norton's Theorem, Maximum Power transfer theorem- Linearity and Superposition Theorem.UNIT II - AC CIRCUITSIntroduction to AC circuits - waveforms and RMS value - power and power factor, single phase and three-phase balanced circuits - Three phase loads - housing wiring, industrial wiring, materials of wiringUNIT III - ELECTRICAL MACHINESPrinciples of operation and characteristics of; DC machines, Transformers (single and three phase), Synchronous machines, three phase and single phase induction motors.UNIT IV - ELECTRONIC DEVICES & CIRCUITSTypes of Materials - Silicon & Germanium- N type and P type materials -PN Junction -Forward and Reverse Bias -Semiconductor Diodes -Bipolar Junction Transistor - Characteristics - Field Effect Transistors - Transistor Biasing -Introduction to operational Amplifier -Inverting Amplifier -Non Inverting Amplifier -DAC - ADC.UNIT V - MEASUREMENTS & INSTRUMENTATIONIntroduction to transducers - Classification of Transducers: Resistive, Inductive, Capacitive, Thermoelectric, piezoelectric, photoelectric, Hall effect and Mechanical-, Classification of instruments - Types of indicating Instruments - multimeters - Oscilloscopes- - three-phase power measurements - instrument transformers(CT and PT)