Solving Electrical Circuits Transient Problems with MATLAB ® and SIMPLORER®.

In practical applications, the desired performance characteristics of systems are specified in terms of time-domain quantities; systems with energy storage elements cannot respond instantaneously and will exhibit transient response whenever they are suddenly subjected to inputs or disturbances. This paper adopted a procedural approach to circuit analysis in arriving at the state equations of a sample complex circuit. The state equations were programmed in MATLAB ® to generate transient responses. The sample circuit was simulated using SIMPLORER ® as a comparative alternative. The simulation results will be very useful to system engineers in studying the transient behaviors of electrical circuits