Electrical Circuits

This course looks at some more advanced topics in circuit theory such as the use of the Laplace Transform, and passive filter design. The course also continues the study of electromagnetics, and in particular electromechanical energy conversion, looking at simple motors and generators. At the end of the course students will be able to: use Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms to determine transients in circuits with switches; explain conceptually what resonance and bandwidth mean in the context of RLC networks; list and draw the frequency specifications of the four basic types of filter; design a passive filter based on a Butterworth or Chebyshev response given a desired specification; draw a Bode Plot of a network function; analyse magnetic circuits.