GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNICS Electrical Circuits: - AC & DC circuit elements, Electrical circuit laws, Network Theorems and applications, Star and delta transformation, Single Phase and Three Phase power in AC circuits, Three Phase balanced and unbalanced circuits, Natural responses and forced responses, steady state and transient response for standard inputs, resonant circuits. Two-Port networks, Laplace, Fourier and Z-transform and their applications, Filter types and parameters, RL and RC Network synthesis. E.M. Theory: - Electric and magnetic fields, Faraday’s Law, Lorentz Force, Biot-Savart’s Law, Gauss's Law, Ampere's Law, Coulomb’s Law, Divergence and Curl, Electric fields and potential due to point, line, plane, and spherical charge distributions, Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic materials, Maxwell's equations, Time-varying fields, Wave propagation in dielectric and conducting media. Engineering Materials: Classification of materials on the basis of permanent magnetic dipoles, Electrical and electronic behaviour of materials, Classification on the basis of conductivity, Behaviour of dielectrics in steady and alternating fields, Phenomenon of polarization, Super conductivity, Applications of magnetic, conducting, dielectric and insulating materials, Piezoelectricity. Control System: Mathematical Modelling of dynamic linear continuous and digital control system Open and closed loop systems, Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, transfer function, Response analysis, time-domain, frequency-domain, steady-state error analysis, Root locus technique, Bode plot, Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist Criteria of stability, State space analysis of linear systems, State transition matrix, Eigen values and stability analysis, Concepts of controllability and observability, Compensating Networks, P, PI and PID Controllers. Elements of Electronics: - Semiconductor device physics, P-N junction diodes, junction transistors and their applications, circuit models and parameters, Small-signal amplifiers, biasing circuits, frequency response, multistage amplifiers and feedback amplifiers. D.C. amplifiers, oscillators, Large-signal amplifiers: coupling methods, push-pull amplifiers, operational amplifier-properties and applications, wave shaping circuits, Multivibrators, flip-flop and their applications, Digital logic gate families, universal gates, combinational circuit for arithmetic and logic operation, sequential logic circuits, Multiplexers, demultiplexer, AD and DA converters, Counters, registers, Memory, Communication: Generation and detection of AM and FM, noise behavior of AM and FM systems.
Power Electronics: Power switching devices namely diode, MOSFET, IGBT, GTO, etc. characteristics and circuits, Device Protection, Principle and design of single phase and polyphase rectifiers, AC to DC, DC to DC and AC to AC converters, Performance parameters, single phase and three phase voltage source inverters (VSI), single phase and three phase PWM, SMPS, chopper fed multi-quadrant and closed-loop control of DC drives, Speed control of drives.
Electrical Machines: Electro Magnetic Energy Conversion, DC Machines-types, generator and
motor characteristics, Starting and control of motors, Synchronous machines-Principle and performance, Regulation, Parallel operation of generators, Motor starting, Characteristics and application, Single phase, Three Phase transformers-Principle, Equivalent circuit, efficiency, Regulation, Connections, Three-phase induction motors-rotating magnetic field theory, 43 Equivalent circuit and determination of its parameters, Torque-slip characteristics, Starters, Speed Control, induction generators, single-phase induction motors-theory, Characteristics, Starting and applications, Servomotors, stepper motors, brushless DC (BLDC) motors. Power System Analysis and Protection: Conventional and Renewable energy systems, Thermal power plants basic schemes and working principles, hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plant, combined working of power plants, renewable sources-wind, solar, tidal etc. Line parameters and calculations, Performance of Transmission lines, voltage distribution over an insulator string, string efficiency improvement, sag and tension calculations, conductor vibrations, Disruptive and visual critical voltage, Corona loss, Interference between Power and Communication Line, Bus admittance matrix, Load flow equations and methods of solutions, Fast decoupled load flow, Balance and unbalanced faults and its analysis, Power system transients and travelling waves, Power system stability, EHV Transmission, HVDC transmission, general design considerations for distribution systems, Design of transmission lines, Switch gear methods of Arc Extinction, Restriking and recovery voltage, Testing of circuit breakers, Protective relays, protective schemes for power system equipment, C.T. and P.T. surges in transmission lines and protection. Measurement and instrumentation: Basic methods of measurement, standards, error analysis, indicating and recording instruments, measurement of voltage, current, power, resistance, inductance, capacitance, power factor, frequency and flux, Instrumentation system for pressure and temperature measurements, CRO, potentiometers, earth fault detection and measurement of earth resistance, Transducers and their applications for the measurement for non-electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow rate, displacement, velocity, acceleration, Telemetry and data transmission, Data acquisition systems. Microprocessor Systems and Computers: Data representation and representation of Integer and floating-point numbers, organisation and Programming of 8-bit microprocessor, 8085 microprocessor architecture, assemblers and compilers, memory and I/O interfacing of general- purpose peripheral devices and their applications, Applications of microprocessors. Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organizations. Algorithms, Introduction to MATLAB.
