Introduction to Electricity


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
The course content covers the concepts of electricity, current and electrical circuits. It also covers fundamentals of electric charge, potential energy, and units of measurement.

Target Audience
The course is aimed at individuals working with machinery, maintaining machinery or involved in maintenance..

Expected Duration (hours)
2.8

Lesson Objectives

Introduction to Electricity

  • The learner will be able to describe the nature of electricity.
  • The learner will be able to describe the characteristics of charge and the electric potential energy of charge.
  • The learner will be able to express large and small quantities using prefixes.
  • The learner will be able to use scientific notation to express large and small quantities.
  • The learner will be able to define current and identify the different types of current carriers.
  • The learner will be able to identify the unit of current, the ampere and describe how current is measured.
  • The learner will be able to explain EMF as the driving force behind current.
  • The learner will be able to explain the potential difference or voltage between two points.
  • The learner will be able to explain the resistance of conductors and insulators.
  • The learner will be able to define resistance.
  • The learner will be able to state ohm's law
  • The learner will be able to apply Ohm's law.
  • The learner will be able to express electrical energy in terms of voltage, current and time.
  • The learner will be able to apply power relations.
  • The learner will be able to describe a simple circuit.
  • The learner will be able to identify the parts of a circuit.
  • The learner will be able to describe series, parallel and combined circuits.
  • The learner will be able to identify pictorial, schematic and block diagrams of circuits.
  • The learner will be able to state Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws.
  • The learner will be able to apply Kirchhoff's laws to analyze a simple circuit.

    • Course Number:
    en_US_15732_ng