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Introduction to Electric Power Systems

Art: not stated, Fletcher's Combined Block Telegraph Apparatus and Bell, 1889 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. James L. Kirtley Jr.
Term: Spring 2011
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 exam · 1 solution · 1 reading · 37 other files · 4 web pages
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Lecture 1: Introduction to power systems

Lecture 2: Review of network theory: power

Lecture 3: Inductance, capacitance, first order transients; buck converter

Lecture 4: More ODEs: boost converters; sinusoidal steady state, reactive power

Lecture 5: Sinusoidal steady state: complex impedance; flow through lines

Lecture 6: Transmission lines: telegrapher’s equations

Lecture 7: Transmission lines in sinusoidal steady state, polyphase systems

Lecture 8: Polyphase circuits and transmission lines

Lecture 9: Transformers and per-unit systems

Lecture 10: Unbalanced circuits: symmetrical components

Lecture 11: Symmetrical components, transformers, faults, protection

Lecture 12: Phase control, high-voltage direct current (HVDC)

Lecture 13: Protection, load flow

Lecture 14: Forces in electromagnetic systems: energy flow, Poynting

Lecture 15: Induction and principle of virtual work

Lecture 16: Multiply excited systems, synchronous machines

Lecture 17: Two axis theory: generators

Lecture 18: Windings, wound rotor machines

Lecture 19: Doubly fed and squirrel cage motors and generators

Lecture 20: Induction motor control: volts/Hz and field oriented control

Lecture 21: Faraday’s law again: DC and PM machines

Lecture 22: Switching power electronic circuits

Lecture 23: Inverters