Electrical and Electronic Circuits: Theory and Laboratory Workbook
Creators: name: EL-Shimy, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This book presents the fundamentals of electronic and electrical circuits. The document presented the main theories, as well as many experiments for verification of various theoretical and mathematical aspects. Therefore, this document can also be considered as a laboratory workbook. The presented experiments are carefully selected to well demonstrate the theories using least cost equipment and simplest structure, but the accuracy is also preserved. The book is designed as a first course in a two year curriculum for the preparation of high level technicians for working in medical systems, and related industries. As a summary, the course aims to: • Provide details of various elements comprising practical electric and electronic circuits. • Describe the functions of instruments for measuring basic electric quantities. • State various methods for testing simple electric and electronic circuits. • Provide a set of experiments for analyzing the performances of various electric and electronic circuits. The mentioned aspects are presented in six chapters. • Chapter 1 - Symbols and Review of Concepts: presents the basic symbols for understanding the terminology of the electrical and electronic circuits as well as laboratory instruments, and equipment. The chapter also includes definitions of the basic electricity concepts mostly previously studied. In addition, the basic of electricity and underlying fundamental laws are presented and explained. The first experiment entitled ‘Electrons and Electricity’ is included in this chapter. • Chapter 2 - Measuring Instruments: presents various measuring instruments for DC, and AC quantities. The use of instrument transformers for measuring high voltage, and high current quantities are also presented. The oscilloscopes are also included. Measuring bridges are demonstrated. Many experiments are included in this chapter for covering various instruments. This chapter includes the following experiments: o Experiment # 2: Simple DC measurements o Experiment # 3: Simple AC measurements o Experiment # 4: Use of meters, and Ohm’s law o Experiment # 5: Current and internal resistance o Experiment # 6: Battery test o Experiment # 7: Use of CRO and Function Generators o Experiment # 8: Clamp meter as a CT o Experiment # 9: Resistance color coding o Experiment # 10: Capacitor color coding o Experiment # 11: Inductor color coding o Experiment # 12: More experience on the color coding • Chapter 3 - Wiring Components and DC circuits on Circuit Boards: provides an overview, and applications of various circuit boards. In addition, the chapter includes many experiments to be carried on breadboards. This chapter includes the following experiments: o Experiment # 13: Connections to Breadboards o Experiment # 14: DC resistive circuits connected on breadboards o Experiment # 15: DC voltage and current dividers • Chapter 4 - Further on Electrical DC Circuits: presents some salient basic theoretical and experimental concepts of DC circuits. This chapter presents more theories, and analyses of the performance of DC circuits. In addition, additional experiments are given for verifying various theories. This chapter includes the following experiments: o Experiment # 16: DC variable sources and potentiometers o Experiment # 17: Ladders and Bridges o Experiment # 18: Potentiometers and Rheostats o Experiment # 19: Superposition theorem o Experiment # 20: Thevenin’s Theorem o Experiment # 21: Maximum Power Transfer o Experiment # 22: Mesh Analysis o Experiment # 23: Nodal Analysis o Experiment # 24: Capacitors and Inductors o Experiment # 25: Transient Analysis of DC Circuits • Chapter 5 - AC Electrical Circuits: presents the basics of AC sinusoidal wave analysis for electrical circuits made up with passive elements. In addition, the basics of non-sinusoidal systems are given. Simple circuit with a single component, series components, parallel components, and mixed connections are presented. In addition, the effect of the passive elements (i.e. resistance, inductance, and capacitance) on the phase difference between the voltages applied on their terminals, and the current flow through them. An introduction to poly-phase systems is also presented. The presented main theories of AC systems are supported by a series of experiments that cover the related practical aspects. This chapter includes the following experiments: o Experiment # 26: AC RC circuit o Experiment # 27: AC RL circuit o Experiment # 28: AC Series RLC circuit o Experiment # 29: AC Parallel RLC circuit o Experiment # 30: AC Superposition o Experiment # 31: AC Thevenin’s Theorem o Experiment # 32: DC Bias • Chapter 6 - Electronic and Power Electronic Circuits: presents the basic theory of electronic and power electronic elements and practical circuits with a focus on medical and industrial applications. Performance characteristic testing of these elements, circuits, and system is presented through a series of experiments. This chapter includes the following experiments: o Experiment # 33: Non-sinusoidal waveforms o Experiment # 33: Forward and reverse bias of a diode o Experiment # 34: Do diodes obey the Ohm’s law? o Experiment # 35: Diode testing o Experiment # 36: Power Diode testing o Experiment # 37: Light Dependent Resistors o Experiment # 38: Thermistors o Experiment # 39: BJT operation o Experiment # 40: Voltage and current relation of BJT o Experiment # 41: Operation of Thyristors o Experiment # 42: Amplifier action