Study Guide

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

Period 4 academic year 2022-2023

Materials

Compendium.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Practical calculation
Simulations
Self studies

Exam schedules

April 2023.

Completion alternatives

Written exam.

Student workload

Altogether 81 hours, of which 36 hours are given as classroom education.

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 33,3 % points from the written exam.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Grade 1: 33,3 % - 47,2 % of total points.
Grade 2: 47,3 % - 61,1 % of total points.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Grade 3: 61,2 % - 74,9 % of total points.
Grade 4: 75,0 % - 88,8 % of total points.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

88,8% of total points or more.

Qualifications

No prerequisites