GE2151 BASIC ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

UNIT I ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS & MEASURMENTS

Ohm’s Law – Kirchoff’s Laws – Steady State Solution of DC Circuits – Introduction to AC Circuits –
Waveforms and RMS Value – Power and Power factor – Single Phase and Three Phase Balanced
Circuits.
Operating Principles of Moving Coil and Moving Iron Instruments (Ammeters and Voltmeters),
Dynamometer type Watt meters and Energy meters.

UNIT II ELECTRICAL MECHANICS

Construction, Principle of Operation, Basic Equations and Applications of DC Generators, DC
Motors, Single Phase Transformer, single phase induction Motor.

UNIT III SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS

Characteristics of PN Junction Diode – Zener Effect – Zener Diode and its Characteristics – Half
wave and Full wave Rectifiers – Voltage Regulation.
Bipolar Junction Transistor – CB, CE, CC Configurations and Characteristics – Elementary
Treatment of Small Signal Amplifier.

UNIT IV DIGITAL ELECTRONICS 

Binary Number System – Logic Gates – Boolean Algebra – Half and Full Adders – Flip-Flops –
Registers and Counters – A/D and D/A Conversion (single concepts)

UNIT V FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Types of Signals: Analog and Digital Signals – Modulation and Demodulation: Principles of
Amplitude and Frequency Modulations. Communication Systems: Radio, TV, Fax, Microwave, Satellite and Optical Fibre (Block Diagram
Approach only).

TOTAL : 60 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. N. Mittle “Basic Electrical Engineering”,Tata McGraw Hill Edition, New Delhi, 1990.
2. R.S. Sedha, “Applied Electronics” S. Chand & Co., 2006.

REFERENCES:

1. Muthusubramanian R, Salivahanan S and Muraleedharan K A, “Basic Electrical, Electronics and
Computer Engineering”,Tata McGraw Hill, Second Edition, (2006).
2. Nagsarkar T K and Sukhija M S, “Basics of Electrical Engineering”, Oxford press (2005).
3. Mehta V K, “Principles of Electronics”, S.Chand & Company Ltd, (1994).
4. Mahmood Nahvi and Joseph A. Edminister, “Electric Circuits”, Schaum’ Outline Series, McGraw
Hill, (2002).
5. Premkumar N, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, Anuradha Publishers, (2003).