Teaching units and topics:
CHAPTER I. Preliminaries
Lesson 1. Principles and Elements I: Ideal Elements and Models.
Units and Dimensions. Voltage and Current: KVL and KCL. Summary of two-terminal and four
terminal elements. Circuits elements and models: ideal and real models. Mutual Inductance and
transformers.
Lesson 2. Principles and Elements II: Series and Parallel Connections. Power &Energy.
Instantaneous power and energy. Series connection: voltage divider. Parallel connection: current
divider. Non Linear elements: some examples
CHAPTER II. Network Theorems and Techniques
Lesson 3. Number and formulation of independent equations in networks.
Graphs: definition and properties. Number of equations and variables. Cut sets and Loops
Methods: fundamental cut sets, nodes, mesh and loops.
Lesson 4. Loop analysis.
Loop analysis for linear time-invariant circuits: mesh currents. Loop impedance matrix:
properties. Current and dependent sources in loop analysis. Mutual inductances and
transformers in node analysis.
Lesson 5. Node analysis revisited.
Node analysis for linear time-invariant circuits: node voltages. Node impedance matrix:
properties. Voltage and dependent sources in loop analysis. Mutual inductances and
transformers in node analysis.
Lesson 6. Network Theorems
Linearity and Superposition. Network functions. Compensation theorem. Thévenin and Norton
theorems. Tellegen theorem. Dependent sources: substitution.
