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~~383 Electromagnetic Fields
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisites: SM294 Engineering Mathematics,
SP294 Engineering Physics
Instruction: lectures/tutorials
Assessment: examinationlassignment
Subject aims
To review the basic laws of electromagnetism, and to extend
the application of these laws to transmission line performance
and to free space propagation.
Subject description
Magnetic flux and flux linkage; magnetic field intensity,
Ampere's Law, Faraday's Law.
Field conditions at material interfaces.
Poisson's equation; Laplace's equation.
Solution of electrostatic field problems: solutions of Laplace's
equation. Application of image and finite difference methods.
Two terminal capacitance. Multiple conductor systems;
calculation of partial and total capacitances.
Solution of magnetostatic field problems: magnetic vector
potential. Mutual inductance, internal and external selfinductance.
Electromagnetic waves: time varying fields; magnetic
induction, displacement current. TEM waves in free space,
phase velocity, Intrinsic impedance.
Transmission lines: field and circuit analysis of transmission
lines; propagation constant, characteristic impedance.
Discontinuities in and termination of lossless transmission lines;
reflections and standing waves, input impedance,
impedance matching; steps and pulses on lines.
Plane waves in materials: dispersive media, group velocity.
Reflection and transmission of waves normally incident on
interfaces: between dielectrics; between dielectric and
conductor. Propagation in good conductors, skin depth. Power
flow, Poynting vector.
Refraction, total internal reflection. Guided waves between
dielectric-dielectric and dielectric-conductor interfaces.
TextslReferences
Cheng, D.K. Fieldand Wave Electromagnetics. 2nd edn, Reading,
Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1985
Hayt, W.H. Engineering Electromagnetics. 5th edn, New York,
McGraw-HIII, 1989
Kraus, J.D. Electromagnetics. 4th edn, McGraw-Hill, 1992
Plonus, M.R. Applied Electromagnetics. Tokyo, McGraw-Hill,
Kogakusha, 1978
Marshall, S.V., and Skitek, G.G. Electromagnetic Conceptsand
Applications.3rd edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1990
~~384 Electrical Power and Machines
No. of hours per week: three hours
~rere~uisites:'~~258 Electrical Machines
Instruction: lectures/tutoriaIs/laboratow
Assessment: examination/assignment~
Subject aims
To extend the treatment of transforms to the three phase case;
to extend the treatment of the induction motor to a full
consideration of steady state behaviour; to introduce the step
motor and the brushless d.c. motor. To extend the work in
power electronics.
Subject description
Power electronics: devices. Extension of work to cover the
thyristor family of devices.
Power transistors: power bipolar junction transistor, power
MOSFET and the insulated gate bipolar transistor. Applications
ax. to d.c. conversion using a lagging power factor load
including the d.c. motor. Fully and partly controlled
conversion, generation of harmonic and power factor control.
d.c. to a.c. conversion. The use of power transistors in inverter
circuits as applied to an uninterruptible power supply and the
variable frequency control of the speed of an induction motor.
Battery technology and alternative energy sources.
Electrical machines: three phase transformer construction,
operation, and designation. Parallel operation. Tertiary
windings, modelling. Harmonic phenomena. Representation
of synchronous machines having significant resistance,
modified Blondel diagram as applied to hybrid step motors.
Operating properties of variable reluctance and hybrid step
motors.
Step motors and brushless d.c. motors: brushless d.c. motors
-construction. Induction machine: the induction machine
equivalent circuit, torque equation, reduction to small slip
form, variable freauencv ooeration. Circle diaaram. Effects of
harmonics. classification of induction machines, and choice of
machine type. Linear forms of induction machine.
References
Acarnley, P.P. Stepping Motors, A Guide to Modern Theory and
Practice. 2nd edn, London, Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of
Electrical Engineering, 1984
Fitzgerald, A.E., Kingsley, C. and Kukso, A. Electric Machinery 5th edn,
London, McGraw-Hill, 1992
Lander, C.W. Power Electronics. 3rd edn, London, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Mohan, N., Undeland, M. and Robbins. Power Electronics: Converters,
Applications and Design. New York, Wiley, 1989
M.Say, M.G. Alternating Current Machines. 5th edn, New York. Wiley,
1983
Sen. P.C. Principles of Electric Machines and Power Electronics. New
York. Wiley, 1989
~ ~ 3 8 6 Electronics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE287 Electronics
Instruction: lecture/tutorial/laboratory
Assessment: examinationlassignments/
laboratory
Subject aims
To develop the principles of negative feedback amplifiers, and
digitallanalog system interfacing.
Subject description
Basic advantages and disadvantages of negative feedback. The
feedback topologies, with detailed analysis of series shunt
feedback. Frequency response, and frequency domain
techniques for stability analysrs and compensation. Ideal
operational amplifier applications in instrumentation and signal
processing applications. Non-ideal operational amplifiers, errors
and noise. Interfacing to digital and analog systems. A/D and
DIA converters including flash converter, successive
approximation, dual slope, and tracking converters. Sample
and hold, comparator and Schmitt trigger and applications.
Pulse generators, sine generators and VCOs. Electrical isolation
techniques for analog and digital I10 dev~ces.