SUMMARY

The following topics have been covered in this lecture.

• Sinusoidal function and sinusoidal signal
• Complex Numbers
• Phasors
• Representation of passive components in ac circuits
• Apparent power, complex power, active power and reactive power.
• Simple ac circuits.

The next chapter covers further analysis of ac circuits. The topics for the chapter are start-delta conversion, application of mesh and nodal analysis to ac circuits and application of theorems to ac circuits.