General Approach to Solving Circuit Diagrams
When I started my EE major (now in my second year) I thought I’d pretty quickly pick up the skill of circuit analysis. The problem is, even now I struggle to approach this sort of problem unless I’ve seen a similar circuit in the past. I’ve been taught thevenins, superposition, kirchoffs laws etc. but I still struggle consistently with 2 skills: understanding what a circuit does ”at a glance” without calculation; and getting a particular value or transfer function in the circuit. Does anyone have any advice on how to start improving?
To elucidate my problem I’ll give an example: I forgot all the relationships to find phase and line current in a 3 phase delta connected transformer and failed miserably to derive this from first principles. I’ve had similar struggles with calculating the current waveform in a DC-DC buck converter and the transfer function of a plant in a control system. Thanks.