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.

Materials

Course notes or similar material with theory and exercises
Course literature

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.

Qualifications

No prerequisites