After the student has passed this subject, he/she will be able to:
- Describe the basic aspects of the structure and operation of electric circuits and power systems (single- and threephase), employing a proper wording and terminology, in terms of their fundamental variables: voltages, currents,
power, impedances, and power factor.
- Analyze whatever electrical circuit in steady-state, calculating voltages, currents and power in each element, using
systematic methods (nodal analysis, mesh analysis) as well as non-systematic ones (circuit reduction, grouping of
elements, etc). Also he/she will be able to describe the behaviour of any dipole by substituting the balance of the
circuit by its Thevenin or Norton equivalent.
- Perform this type of analysis on any a.c. circuit at constant frequency, representing the corresponding magnitudes by
their associate complex phasors.
- Correctly choose and operate electrical instruments to carry out experimental measurements on a real circuit.
- Use the single-phase equivalent to analyze a simple balanced three-phase circuit, and correctly apply reactive power
compensation techniques by insertion of banks of capacitors.