Basic electrical concepts: units, quantities, voltage, charge, current, energy and power, basic components and circuits, AC and DC sources.
Circuit variables and laws: Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's law.
Resistive circuits: series and parallel, combination.
Capacitors and RC circuits: charging/discharging.
Basic Magnetic principles: Flux, reluctance, magnetic circuits.
DC motors: power (torque & speed).
Semiconductor materials: diodes, LED,
Basic electronic sensors,
Bipolar junction transistor: Using the transistor as a switch.
Fundamentals of conventional power plants and renewable and non-renewable distributed generators
Mechanism/Dynamics (s2):
Kinematics of a particle: rectilinear and curvilinear motion; relative motion analysis;
Kinetics of a particle: Newton`s law of motion; equation of motion; system of particles; cylindrical co-ordinates; general force motion.
Work and energy: work of a force; principle of work and energy; power and efficiency; potential & kinetic energy; conservation of energy.
Impulse and momentum: conservation of linear momentum and impact.
Typical mechanism and machine components: friction and motion on inclined plane.
Introduction to planar mechanism analysis using graphical method. General and Mechanical Engineering applications and context will be explored at every opportunity.