Introduction to Electrical Engineering

Name of the course Lecture Exercise Lab*
Electrical Engineering ✓*
*Lab is mandatory if enrolled for the course 'KdG Electrical Engineering', otherwise optional

The course 'Introduction to Electrical Engineering' is an online course. Students attend from lecture halls or from home. Local presence is not required so that the course is barrier-free.

Course Records

Module Content Notes Video Lab
1 Charge and current, electric and magnetic vector field, potential and voltage, conductance and resistance [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
2 Energy and power, thermal conductivity, ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, ohm's power law [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
3 Voltage and current divider, linear sources, measuring current and voltage, Kirchhoff laws, Kirchhoff network analysis, superposition, Norton and Thevenin equivalents [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
4 Alternating voltage, generator, superposition of AC voltages, beat frequency, phasor diagrams, rms value [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
5 Electric field, capacitance, series and parallel circuits, ideal and real capacitance, Q-factor, capacitive voltage divider [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
6 Magnetic field, inductance, induction, magnetization and hysteresis, energy in inductance and capacitance, power and power factor [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
7 Complex numbers, introduction to complex AC calculus, absolute and phase, RLC circuits [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
8 Thevenin theorem of AC calculus, decibels, input and output impedance, low pass filter [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]
9* Transmission line theory, telegraphers equation, characteristic impedance, impedance matching, voltage standing wave ratio [PDF] [MP4] [TGZ]

*optional content, not part of the examination


Literature

[1] Practical Electronics for Inventors, Scherz & Monk, Mcgraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 007-1-77133-6
[2] The Art of Electronics, Horowitz & Hill, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80926-9