UPSC ESE Electrical Engineering SyllabusPaper I Syllabus1. EM Theory Electric and magnetic fieldsGausss Law and Amperes Law. Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic materials. Maxwells equations. Time varying fields. Plane-Wave propagating in dielectric and conducting media. Transmission lines.2. Electrical MaterialsBand Theory, Conductors, Semi-conductors and Insulators. Super-conductivity. Insulators for electrical and electronic applications. Magnetic materials. Ferro and ferri magnetism. Ceramics, Properties and applications. Hall effect and its applications. Special semi conductors.3. Electrical CircuitsCircuits elements. Kirchoffs Laws. Mesh and nodal analysis. Network Theorems and applications. Natural response and forced response. Transient response and steady state response for arbitrary inputs. Properties of networks in terms of poles and zeros. Transfer function. Resonant circuits. Threephase circuits. Two-port networks. Elements of two-element network synthesis.4. Measurements and InstrumentationUnits and Standards. Error analysis, measurement of current, Voltage, power, Power-factor and energy. Indicating instruments. Measurement of resistance, inductance, Capacitance and frequency. Bridge measurements. Electronic measuring instruments. Digital Voltmeter and frequency counter. Transducers and their applications to the measurement of nonelectrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow-rate displacement, acceleration, noise level etc. Data acquisition systems. A/D and D/A converters.5. Control SystemsMathematical modelling of physical systems. Block diagrams and signal flow graphs and their reduction. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear dynamical system. Errors for different type of inputs and stability criteria for feedback systems. Stability analysis using Routh-Hurwitz array, Nyquist plot and Bode plot. Root locus and Nicols chart and the estimation of gain and phase margin. Basic concepts of compensator design. State variable matrix design. Sampled data system and performance of such a system with the samples in the error channel. Stability of sampled data system. Elements of non-linear control analysis. Control system components, electromechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic components.

Paper II Syllabus1. Electrical Machines and Power TransformersMagnetic Circuits - Analysis and Design of Power transformers. Construction and testing. Equivalent circuits. Losses and efficiency. Regulation. Auto-transformer, 3-phase transformer. Parallel operation. Basic concepts in rotating machines. EMF, torque, basic machine types. Construction and operation, leakage losses and efficiency. D.C. Machines. Construction, Excitation methods. Circuit models. Armature reaction and commutation. Characteristics and performance analysis. Generators and motors. Starting and speed control. Testing, Losses and efficiency. Synchronous Machines. Construction. Circuit model. Operating characteristics and performance analysis. Synchronous reactance. Efficiency. Voltage regulation. Salient-pole machine, Parallel operation. Hunting. Short circuit transients. Induction Machines. Construction. Principle of operation. Rotating fields. Characteristics and performance analysis. Determination of circuit model. Circle diagram. Starting and speed control. Fractional KW motors. Single-phase synchronous and induction motors.2. Power systemsTypes of Power Stations, Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear Stations. Pumped storage plants. Economics and operating factors. Power transmission lines. Modeling and performance characteristics. Voltage control. Load flow studies. Optimal power system operation. Load frequency control. Symmetrical short circuit analysis. Z-Bus formulation. Symmetrical Components. Per Unit representation. Fault analysis. Transient and steady-state stability of power systems. Equal area criterion. Power system Transients. Power system Protection Circuit breakers. Relays. HVDC transmission.3. ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUITSSemiconductor device physics, PN junctions and transistors, circuit models and parameters, FET, Zener, tunnel, Schottky, photo diodes and their applications, rectifier circuits, voltage regulators and multipliers, switching behavior of diodes and transistors. Small signal amplifiers, biasing circuits, frequency response and improvement, multistage amplifiers and feed-back amplifiers, D.C. amplifiers, coupling methods, push pull amplifiers, operational amplifiers, wave shaping circuits. Multivibrators and flipflops and their applications. Digital logic gage families, universal gatescombinational circuits for arithmetic and logic operational, sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM and ROMs.4. MICROPROCESSORSMicroprocessor architecture-Instruction set and simple assembly language programming. Interfacing for memory and I/O. Applications of Micro-processors in power system.5. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSTypes of modulation; AM, FM and PM. Demodulators. Noise and bandwidth considerations. Digital communication systems. Pulse code modulation and demodulation. Elements of sound and vision broadcasting. Carrier communication. Frequency division and time division multiplexing, Telemetry system in power engineering.6. POWER ELECTRONICSPower Semiconductor devices. Thyristor. Power transistor, GTOs and MOSFETs. Characteristics and operation. AC to DC Converters; 1-phase and 3-phase DC to DC Converters. AC regulators. Thyristor controlled reactors; switched capacitor networks. Inverters; single-phase and 3-phase. Pulse width modulation. Sinusoidal modulation with uniform sampling. Switched mode power supplies.

Books for ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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1.Electronic Devices & Circuits & Analog Electronics(i) Integrated electronics : Analog and Digital Circuit and system(ii) Microelectronic Circuits(iii) Electronic Devices and Circuits(iv) OP Amp and linear Integrated Circuit(v) Solid State electronic devices

(vi) Semiconductor devices

Jacob Millman & Christos C. Halkias Sedra & SmithJ.B. GuptaRamakant A.Gayakwad

Streetman and BanerjeeS.M.Sze

2.Communication System(i) Communication System(ii) An introduction to Analog and Digital Communication(iii) Communication System : Analog and Digital(iv) Modern Digital and Analog Communication System(v) Electronic Communication SystemSimon HaykinsSimon Haykins

Singh and Sapre

B.P. Lathi

Kennedyand Davis

3.Signal and SystemOppenheim and Willsky

4.Optical Fiber CommunicationSenior

5.Satellite CommunicationsPratt and Bostian

6.Monochrome and colourR.R. Gulati

7.Control System(i) Control System Engg.

(ii) Automatic Control System(iii) Linear Control SystemI.G. Nagrath & M.GopalB.C. KuoB.S. Manke

8.Electro Magnetic Theory(i) Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics(ii) Elements of Electromagnetics(iii) Engineering Electromagnetics(iv) Antenna and Wave PropagationN. N. Rao

SadikuW.H.HaytK.D. Prasad

9.Digital Electronics(i) Digital Design(ii) Digital Systems(iii) Modern Digital ElectronicsM. Morris ManoTocci & WidmerR. P. Jain

10.Computer Engineering(i) Microprocessor Architecture, Programming & Application(ii) Computer Organization and StructureRamesh S. Gaonkar

Stalling

11.Microwave Engineering(i) Microwave Devices and Circuits(ii) Microwave Engineering(iii) Microwave EngineeringLiaoSanjeev GuptaPozar

12.Network Theory(i) Networks and Systems(ii) Engineering Circuit AnalysisD. Roy ChaudharyHayt

13.Electrical Engineering Material scienceS.P. Seth

14.Measurement and Instrumentation(i) Electrical & Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation(ii) Electronic InstrumentationA. K. Sahney

H. S. Kalsi

15.Electrical Machine(i) Electrical Machinery(ii) Electrical MachinesPS BhimraNagrath & Kothari

16.Power System(i) Power System Engg.(ii) Electric Power SystemsNagrath & KothariCL Wadhwa

17.Power ElectronicsPS Bhimra