ELEC 125 - Fundamentals of Electricity
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisites: MATH 090 and RDG 090 or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests and one year high school algebra.
Session Cycle: FWSU
This course is designed as a survey for electronics majors and non-majors. It covers safety, basic electrical theory (AC and DC), Ohm’s Law, reading schematic drawings, electrical component identification and functions, sources of electrical power, motors, power distribution, and basic solid-state devices. Laboratory exercises will include measurement of resistance, voltage, and current with analog and digital meters, basic oscilloscope use, relays and transformers, circuit design and construction, and component testing. Student must have one year of high school algebra.
Notes: Applied Science and Engineering Technology Division
Theory Hours: 30
Lab Hours: 30
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify/Recognize: good and poor practices with regard to electrical safety.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, I, and J.
2. Identify/Recognize: electrical components including resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, switches, fuses, diodes, and transistors and their values using coding procedures.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, G, and J.
3. Identify/Recognize: electrical test instruments, including power supplies, signal generators, analog and digital multimeters, and oscilloscopes.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, G, and J.
4. Demonstrate/Practice: calculate current and voltage values in series, parallel and compound DC circuits, using Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Voltage laws.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L.
5. Demonstrate/Practice: construct a series, parallel and compound resistive DC circuit(s) and measure current and voltage drops, using both digital and analog multimeters.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. B, C, D, E, F, and J.
6. Identify/Recognize: principles of Magnetism.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, F, G, H, and J.
7. Demonstrate/Practice: soldering Techniques.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, I, and J.
8. Indentify/Recognize: principles of Alternating Current (AC).
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. A, C, D, E, F, G, J, K, and L.
9. Demonstrate/Practice: use an oscilloscope to study basic wave shapes and measure frequency and period and DC and AC voltages.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and L.
10. Demonstrate/Practice: calculate R-C and R-L and RLC time constants and capacitive and inductive reactance, and confirm by laboratory measurement.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, G, H, J, and L.
11. Demonstrate/Practice: build solid state half and full wave filtered DC power supplies.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. C, D, E, F, G, H, J, and L.
12. Demonstrate/Practice: construct basic control circuits using transistors and diodes.
Applies to Electrical Engineering Technology, A.A.S. A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J.
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