Electrical Principles and Applications

Catalog description

Major topics include safety; the engineering subset of metric prefixes; engineering notation; electronic abbreviations; schematic symbols; resistor color codes; wire size and composition; Ohm's Law, Watt's Law, and Kirchhoff's Laws; analysis of simple direct current and alternating current circuitry; and basic electrical devices including direct current motors, transformers, and passive filters. Laboratory sessions will stress use of test equipment including the digital multimeter and oscilloscope, construction of simple circuits, and troubleshooting techniques to determine faults in simple circuits.