Basic Electrical Technology

What the course covers

Basic Electrical Technology is a 39-lecture NPTEL series from IISc Bangalore that starts with the building blocks of circuits: passive components and sources. From there it moves through Kirchhoff's laws, how a circuit gets modelled, and analysis carried out in MATLAB.

The later lectures are where the material turns into a working toolkit. Sinusoidal steady state, phasors and power factor give you the methods used to size real AC networks, and the transfer function and pole-zero lectures show how those networks respond to input.

Who it suits

This fits engineering undergraduates taking a first electrical course, and self-learners who want a structured route into AC circuit analysis. Work the examples as you go, because the phasor sections only stick once you apply them yourself.

Key takeaways

• Circuit modelling with Kirchhoff's laws applied to real networks
• Phasor methods for sinusoidal steady-state analysis
• Power factor and how power flows through a network