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Electrotechnics
21061105
Automation and Applied Informatics
5
Radu V. Ciupa
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Electrotechnics
Semester 1
Semester 2
Lectures
Applications
Lecture
Applications
Hours / week
Hours / week
S
L
P
S
L
P
3
1
1. Two hour written examination (60%); 2. Continuous assessment (20%); 3.
Laboratory (20%)
Mathematics I, II; Physics
1. The Theory of Electric Circuits, authors: RV Ciupa, V Topa, Casa Cartii
de Stiinta Publishing House, 2003

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to provide a grounding in the electromagnetic field theory

to present the fundamental notions necessary in the study of an a.c.
circuit
To facilitate and enhance the student's understanding
of the electromagnetic field theory.
To enable the student to solve various types of
theoretical problems using methods and theorems
To enable the student to analyse and study electronic
Knowledge /
understanding
circuits by means of quadripoles.
To convince students that their understanding of
many areas, such as solid state, physical electronics,
linear and rotating machines, microwaves, etc.
depends on EM
This course should stimulate students' interest, for
they often tend to view a course in EM as a dry
Theoretical skills
experience which does not go beyond mathematical
manipulations.
The more logical presentation of the traditional
approach can be made sufficiently exciting to
Practical skills
engineering students by relating the theory to realworld problems which are covered in the application
sections
Static electric fields (the electric field, equipotential surfaces, electric flux
density and Gauss' Law, the Laplacian operator and Laplace's equation).
Conductors and charges (general properties of materials, electric current,
conductivity and Ohm's Law at a point, conductors, examples). Sources of
voltage (emf) and steady electric current. Dielectrics and polarisation.
Capacitance, energy and forces. The magnetic field and magnetic force in
free space (the magnetic force between two current elements and between
two moving charges, magnetic field from a wire loop, in a solenoid and
toroid). Ampere's law, inductance and energy in magnetic field (magnetic flux
and flux density, magnetic field strength, inductance , energy stored in an
inductor, in a magnetic field). Magnetic materials, magnets. Applications of
magnetism (eddy current losses, magnetic circuit with air gaps,
electromagnets, the transformer, self-inductance and mutual inductance).

Maxwell's equations. Transmission lines.

Introduction to the circuit theory. Direct current circuits (Kirchhoff theorems,
ideal sources, node analysis, loop analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalent
generator). Linear electric circuits in the sinusoidal steady state (dipole
features, powers, linear complex electric circuits equations, resonance).
Methods and theorems for the analysis of the a.c. circuits (elements of
topology and graph theory, transfiguration methods). Quadripoles and filters
(the physical significance of the parameters, connections, equations,
equivalent circuit diagrams). Three-phased electric circuits. Non-sinusoidal
steady state. The transient regime of the linear electric circuits (continuity
conditions, first order circuits, second order circuits, Laplace transform,
Fourier transform, state equations).