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Electricity and Magnetism (3 cr)

Code: TKV22EL01-3001

General information


Enrollment

15.06.2022 - 11.09.2022

Timing

05.09.2022 - 02.12.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Technology and Seafaring

Campus

Vasa, Wolffskavägen 33

Teaching languages

  • Svenska

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Civil and Construction Engineering
  • Degree Programme in Mechanical and Production Engineering
  • Degree Programme in Electrical Engineering and Automation
  • Degree Programme in Industrial Management

Teachers

  • Ronnie Sundsten

Teacher in charge

Ronnie Sundsten

Scheduling groups

  • ELA22-V-S (Size: 45. Open UAS: 0.)
  • ELA22-V-Y (Size: 45. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • ÖH22ELA-LED-V
    Öppna YH, el-och automationsteknik ledstudier
  • ELA22D-V
    Ingenjör (YH), el- och automationsteknik, 2022, dagstudier

Small groups

  • ELA22-V-S
  • ELA22-V-Y

Objective

The student:
- knows the basic concepts of electricity and magnetism
- knows how to analyze simple DC circuits.

Content

Charges, Coulomb's law and electric fields
Potential and voltage
Current, resistance, Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws
Electrical power and energy
Potential in electrical circuits
Voltage sources

Application according to specific education may occur.

Location and time

Weeks 36 - 41

Materials

Compendium.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Practical calculation
Simulations
Self studies
Home exercises

Exam schedules

Week 40.

Completion alternatives

Written exam with possibility to get extra points from the home exercises.

Student workload

Altogether 81 hours, of which 36 hours are given as classroom education. Six weeks with three two-hour lectures per week.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- Knows the interactions between electricity and magnetism
- Knows how voltage sources and resistors act in a circuit
- Can calculate the resistance of a conductor
- Can calculate the heat effect in a resistor
- Can calculate currents and voltages in simple circuits
- Can calculate voltage and current using resistances

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- Can calculate resistance for serial and parallel connections
- Can take into account the internal resistance in a voltage source
- Can calculate potential in circuits
- Can calculate currents with the help of Kirchoff laws.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- Can calculate currents in a circuit with the help of superposition of voltage sources
- Can calculate currents and voltages for Y- and deltaconnected resistances
- Can optimize power for DC-circuits.

Assessment methods and criteria

The written exam has four questions with six points each. A total of 24 points. All questions are calculations.
Six points in a task require complete calculation with the right values ​​and the right answer.
Points are given for correct thinking, carelessness gives deductions.
The home exercises can give a maximum of six points extra.

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Less than 8 points from the written exam.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Grade 1: 8 - 11,5 points.
Grade 2: 12 - 15,5 points.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Grade 3: 16 - 19,5 points.
Grade 4: 20 - 23,5 points.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

24 points and more.

Qualifications

No prerequisites