Course Outline ELEC 1002 Electrical Principles I

COURSE TITLE: Electrical Principles I
COURSE CODE: ELEC 1002
LEVEL: 1
CREDIT POINTS: 3
Parent Programme: National Engineering Technician Diploma
Date validated: August 2011 Date modified: June 2011
TOTAL STUDENT WORKLOAD: 84 hours

The weekly hours committed to the unit will typically include 4 hours of formal delivery with
students expected to manage directed learning and independent study in support of the
course.
Students are required to maintain a minimum 80% class attendance.
The normal weekly workload will be:

Lecture 2 hrs
Laboratory 2 hrs
Directed and independent study 3 hrs
DESCRIPTION
This is an introductory course in electrical principles, concepts and relationships. The course
covers resistance, current and voltage relationships, power and energy; circuit analysis;
capacitance, magnetism and inductance; steady-state and transient response. AC theory is
introduced. The labs supplement the theory by using lab connections and computer simulations
to illustrate operational and analytical concepts.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Knowledge and Understanding

1. Differentiate alternating and direct voltage systems.
2. Differentiate between current, voltage and resistance.
3. State circuit laws.
Cognitive skills
4. Perform calculations involving resistance, power, voltage and current for various series
and parallel and series–parallel circuits.
5. Apply Ohm’s law to solve various electrical problems.
6. Apply Kirchoff’s Voltage and Current Laws to the solution of two and three loop
networks.
7. Design electrical circuit to solve engineering problems.
Practical and Professional skills

8. Use resistor colour codes to correctly identify resistors.
9. Use metres to measure various electrical quantities.
10. Implement electrical circuit to solve engineering problems.
Transferable and Key skills

11. Applies problem-solving methodologies.
AREAS OF STUDY- LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Electrical Quantities and Units of Measure

Understand prefixes denoting multiplication and division. Define charge and state its unit.
Define current and state its unit. Define electric potential, potential difference and
electromotive force and state their unit. Define resistance and conductance and state their
units. Define electrical energy and power and state their units. Perform simple calculations
involving the basic electrical quantities and their units.
Direct Current Electrical Circuits

State Ohm’s law and solve problem relating to voltage, current and resistance. Identify from
circuit diagrams, series and parallel connections of resistors and derive expressions for their
equivalent resistances. Solve problems involving series, parallel and series-parallel circuits
limited to four resistors and Ohm’s law. Apply the voltage divider and current divider rules in
solving problems involving dc circuits. Apply Kirchhoff’s Voltage law to series circuits. Apply
Kirchhoff’s Current law to parallel circuits. Define resistivity of a conductor and its unit and
calculate the resistance of a conductor using the formula R = ρL /A. Define temperature
coefficient of resistance and its unit, and calculate change in resistance due to change in
temperature. State and apply the formulae P =VI, P=I2R and P=V2/R for electrical power.
Identify the heating effect of current and apply the formula electrical energy=power x time,
giving the result in Joules and kilowatt- hours. Identify various types of cells and batteries.
Magnetism
Describe the characteristics of magnetic fields. Distinguish between permanent and
electromagnets. Apply the right hand rule to a current carrying conductor. Identify the direction
of flux for an electromagnet. Define flux density. Define magnetomotive force, permeability,
reluctance, magnetizing force, hysteresis and retentivity. Apply Ampere’s circuital law.
Inductance
Describe electromagnetic induction. State Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws. Define inductance. List
the factors governing inductance. Calculate equivalent values for inductors in series. Calculate
equivalent values for inductors in parallel. Define steady state condition for inductors. Calculate
values for current rise during transient conditions. Calculate values for current decay during
transient conditions.
Capacitance
Define an electric field. Define capacitance. Describe the basic construction of a capacitor.
Compare an electrolytic capacitor to other types. Calculate capacitance for capacitors in series.
Calculate capacitance for capacitors in parallel. Define time constant as related to a capacitive
circuit. Perform calculations for transient conditions for charging and discharging a capacitor.
Alternating Current Theory

Explain the term single phase alternating current and represent graphically periodic waveforms
for current and voltage. Define the terms cycle, period, frequency, angular frequency, peak
value, instantaneous value, rms value, average value and phase angle as associated with
alternating currents and voltages. Represent sinusoidal voltages and currents by phasor
diagrams. Define resistance, capacitive reactance and inductive reactance in ac circuits. Draw
graphs and phasor diagrams showing the phase relationship between voltage and current in
purely resistive, purely capacitive and purely inductive ac circuits. Define the term series
impedance for ac circuits. Draw phasor diagrams for RL, RC and RLC series circuits and use them
to derive formula for total impedance. Calculate the current and voltages in series ac circuits.
Draw phasor diagrams for RL, RC and RLC parallel circuits. Calculate the currents and in parallel
RL, RC and RLC ac circuits.
Labs
Lab 1: Resistor colour code and measurement of resistance.

Lab 2: Measurement of voltage and current.
Lab 3: Ohm’s law.
Lab 4: Series and Parallel Resistive Circuits
Lab 6: RC DC Transients
Lab 7: RL DC Transients
Lab 8: AC Circuits
ASSESSMENT
Assessment Element 1
Weighting: 20%
Assessment type: In-class tests/quizzes
Special facilities: e.g. none
Time/duration: 45 minutes
Weighting: 30%
Assessment type: Laboratory Report and In- Laboratory Observations
Special facilities: Electrical Laboratory and Computer facilities
Time/duration: in - course
Weighting: 50%
Assessment type: e.g. Final examination
Special facilities: Examination conditions
Time/duration: 3 hrs
ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
To assist learning, the assessment process is designed to provide the student with timely and
regular formative feedback. The objectives of small group sessions are designed such that the
investigative Learning Outcomes of the unit will be assessed on more than one occasion by
using evidence available in Laboratory Reports. Attendance at practical sessions is a pre-
requisite for the validation of any work assessed through Laboratory Reports. Students must
build and test electrical circuits that exhibit the full range of student learning.
The main assessment instruments for this unit are: problem solving exercises completed as part
of the assignment and quizzes, laboratory exercises and submitted reports, and an examination
to test basic understanding and knowledge.
AGGREGATION AND REASSESSMENT RULES

The three assessment elements can be aggregated to form a single overall mark. If a
reassessment of coursework element 2 (lab report) is required, this can only be carried out
during the normal reassessment period if the practical work associated with the course has
been completed. If this is not the case, the practical work and reports will need to be
completed in the semester when the course is next offered.
INDICATIVE READING
 Boylestad Robert L, Introductory Circuit Analysis Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-097417-X
 John Bird, Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology
 Robbins & Miller, Circuit Analysis: Theory and Practice
Date: June 2011
Course Instructors: Satishwar Balkissoon

Derek Ramdass

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COURSE TITLE: Electrical Principles I

COURSE CODE: ELEC 1002

Parent Programme: National Engineering Technician Diploma

Date validated: August 2011 Date modified: June 2011

TOTAL STUDENT WORKLOAD: 84 hours

The normal weekly workload will be:

Knowledge and Understanding

Practical and Professional skills

Transferable and Key skills

AREAS OF STUDY- LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Electrical Quantities and Units of Measure

Direct Current Electrical Circuits

Alternating Current Theory

Lab 1: Resistor colour code and measurement of resistance.

AGGREGATION AND REASSESSMENT RULES

 John Bird, Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology

 Robbins & Miller, Circuit Analysis: Theory and Practice

Date: June 2011

Course Instructors: Satishwar Balkissoon

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