Sathyabama University is said to be one of the popular technical universities in south India. This university was established by the Jeppiaar Educational Trust to motivate the higher technical education in India. Most of the areas of science, engineering and technology are covered by this university. This offers a number of courses to the aspirants, B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering is one of them.

Paper Description:

The IInd Semester Circuit Theory Paper is coded as 6C0026 and it includes the knowledge about the different basic theories and principles required in circuit theory. There is also some information about the conductor, capacitor, and resonance etc. The paper is basically based on circuital calculations and different series circuits.

Paper Pattern:

Second Semester Circuit Theory Paper includes a basic pattern. The whole question is categorized into two groups. There are short answer types and long calculation based questions in this paper. The part A of this paper holds short answer type questions whereas the second part consists of descriptive and numerical based answer type questions. The total marks allotted to both these groups are 20 and 60 respectively. Each question in first section carries two marks whereas questions in last part each question hold five marks.

Frequently Asked Questions:

There are number of questions are asked from different theories related to circuit. Some of the frequently asked questions are Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s Theorem, Maximum Power Transfer Theorem, Superposition Theorem, PSPICE, Questions related to RLC circuits, Transient and Steady State Response, Resonant Circuit, Q Factor, graphs and trees etc.

Total Time and Marks Allotted:

The maximum time limit allotted to an individual is three hours to solve the complete circuit theory paper and the total marks is 80.

Books Recommended:

Basic Electric Circuit Theory, A One-Semester Text, by Isaak Mayergoyz, University of Maryland, ECE Department, College Park, USA