May 14, 2025  
2025-2026 Workforce Education Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Workforce Education Catalog

UELE 112 - Circuit Analysis II


Alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) circuits containing resistance and reactance. Detailed coverage of AC/DC circuit parameters, including theorems, impedance matching, and resonance.  Also includes many examples and exercises pertaining to electrical, magnetic, fluidic, thermal, and mechanical systems; and layout and analysis of resistor, diode, and transistor circuits using a circuit simulation program.

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Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain the principles of electromagnetism and electromagnetic induction.
  2. Calculate voltages and currents using phasors. 
  3.  Analyze the transient behavior of series Resistor Capacitor (RC) and Resistor Inductor (RL) circuits.
  4. Calculate inductive and capacitive reactances.
  5.  Use Kirchhoff`s voltage and current laws to write loop or nodal equations for appropriate networks.
  6. Analyze the ideal transformer in terms of voltage, current and impedance. 
  7. Calculate voltages and currents for series, parallel and series-parallel AC circuits using the concepts of impedance and admittance.
  8. Analyze and calculate basic three-phase circuits for various generator-to-load configurations. 
  9. Apply the principles of superposition and Thevenin`s theorems, to simple resistive and reactive circuits.
  10. Construct RL, RC, and Resistor, Inductor, and Capacitor (RLC) networks; measure currents and voltages using the appropriate text equipment.

Outline:
  1.   Magnetism and electromagnetism 
    1. Electromagnetism 
    2. Electromagnetic induction 
  2. Introduction to Alternating Current and Voltage 
    1. Non-sinusoidal waveforms 
  3. Capacitance 
    1. Transient response of RC circuits 
    2. Capacitance in AC circuits 
  4. Inductance 
    1. Definition and physical properties 
    2. Circuit configurations and total inductance 
    3. Transient response of RL circuits 
    4. Inductance in AC circuits 
  5. Transformers 
    1. Loading and reflected load 
    2. Impedance matching 
  6.  RC Circuits 
    1. Approved circuits configurations and total impedance 
    2. Power in RC circuits 
  7.  RL Circuits 
    1. Circuit configurations and total impedance 
    2. Power in RL circuits 
  8. RLC Circuits 
    1. Circuit configurations and total impedance 
    2. Power in RLC circuits 
    3. Resonance 
    4. Filters 
  9. Circuit Theorems 
    1. Voltage and current sources 
    2. Source conversions 
    3. Superposition theorem 
    4. Thevenin`s theorem 
    5. Maximum power theorem 
    6. WYE-DELTA networks and conversions