DC Circuits


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number

Overview/Description
The course content covers analysis of various electric circuits and behaviour of various types of components.

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

Expected Duration (hours)
3.2

Lesson Objectives

DC Circuits

  • The learner will be able to identify batteries as a DC source.
  • The learner will be able to apply Kirchhoff's laws and superposition theorem to DC circuits.
  • The learner will be able to apply Thévenin's and Norton's equivalent circuit theorems.
  • The learner will be able to describe the working of voltage and current dividers.
  • The learner will be able to identify the conditions under which maximum power is transferred from a source to a load.
  • The learner will be able to describe the behavior of capacitors to a DC voltage.
  • The learner will be able to describe the behavior of inductors in a DC circuit.
  • The learner will be able to calculate the capacitive and inductive time constants of a DC circuit.
  • The learner will be able to describe half-wave rectification.
  • The learner will be able to describe full-wave rectification.
  • The learner will be able to describe the working of a voltage multiplier.
  • The learner will be able to describe the working of a filter.
  • The learner will be able to describe the working of a voltage regulator.

    • Course Number:
    en_US_15735_ng