ENSY 2210U – Principles of Electrical Systems

Basic concepts of electricity, magnetism and electric circuits. Electric charge; Coulomb’s law; electric field; electric flux; Gauss’ law; electrostatic potential; capacitance; magnetic forces and magnetic field; Biot-Savart law; Ampere’s law; magnetic flux; Faraday’s law; inductance; magnetic circuits. DC circuits; Kirchoff’s Laws; series and parallel circuits; Ohm’s Law; Thevenin Theorem; Norton Theorem; voltage/current divider; Wheatstone bridge; DC power. AC circuits; response to step functions; response to sinusoidal functions and steady state analysis; resonance; AC power; three phases; filters; principles of electrical equipment such as instruments, motors, and generators; solenoids; transformers. Basics of electronics: diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1020U and PHY 1010U