Introduction to Power System Analysis

About this course

This course has been developed based on my experience teaching university level power for over a decade. I have learned that students are more likely to understand key concepts when the lectures and examples are animation rich. To this end, I have developed a Power systems analysis course which covers the fundamentals you need to know to kick start your career in the power industry, but the approach is very different to the traditional "death by powerpoint" approach. Here, you will learn:1) RMS and the use of Phasors/angle notation. Why are these the industry standard? Visual examples will help you build a firm understanding of these important concepts. 2) The physical mechanisms responsible for real and reactive power, and how this is linked to resistance, inductance and capacitance. This provides necessary intuition so the mathematics has its proper context.3) How to solve power systems for current, real, reactive and apparent power4) The importance of Power Factor5) How to analyse mixed power systems, with resistance, capacitance and inductance.Many of the lectures and examples are underpinned by a unique animation engine which is capable of simulating and visualising changes to the system. This powerful approach brings the concepts to life and helps to explain topics which are far trickier to grasp using static slides or a purely mathematical approach. When you finish each section, test your understanding with a challenging quiz and support your thinking with the provided Matlab livescript code, designed to complement the worked examples.