Description

Theory
1

Laboratory
2

Instructors

António Andrade

Contents

SY1. Electricity
1.1 Single-phase AC circuits
1.1.1 Coil and RL circuits
1.1.2 Capacitors and RC circuits
1.1.3 RLC circuits
1.1.4 AC power
1.1.5 Power factor evaluation and correction

1.2 Three-phase AC System
1.2.1 Electric three-phase circuits
1.2.2 Delta and star connection
1.2.3 Tree-phase AC power
1.2.4 Power factor evaluation and correction

SY2. Electrical Machines
2.1 Electromagnetism
2.2 Single-phase transform
2.2.1 Working principle
2.2.2 Energy diagram
2.2.3 Winding connection

2.3 AC Electric Machines
2.3.1 Asynchronous machine
2.3.2 Working principle
2.3.3 Power and torque
2.3.4 Energy diagram

Learning Outcomes

This unit aims to give skills to the creation and use of models in the study of AC circuits and electrical machines.
Namely:
LO1 - Understand the working principle of AC circuits;
LO2 - Understand the working principle of electrical transformer;
LO3 - Understand the working principle of induction machine.