FIRST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS GE2151 BASIC ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING SYLLABUS

APPLICABLE TO
CHENNAI,MADURAI,COIMBATORE,TRICHY,TRINELVELI
AND ALL DISTRICT COLLEGES FIRST YEAR
SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS
GE2151 BASIC ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING SYLLABUS -
FOR NON CIRCUIT BRANCHES
(Common to branches under Civil,
Mechanical and Technology faculty)

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).
TEXT BOOKS
1. V.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).