Maricopa Community Colleges  ELE111   20036-20045 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 05/27/03
ELE111 20036-20045 LEC
LAB
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Circuit Analysis I
Direct current (DC) and Alternating current (AC) electric circuits. Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, series, parallel and series-parallel circuits, fundamentals of inductance and capacitance, and the transient behavior of circuits containing resistance and capacitance or resistance and inductance Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: ELE105 or (MAT150 and MAT182) or MAT187 or equivalent
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
ELE111   20036-20045 Circuit Analysis I
1. Define basic electricity terms. (I, II)
2. Use the standard color code to determine resistance. (II)
3. Make circuit measurements using the ammeter, voltmeter, ohmmeter, and oscilloscope. (II)
4. Apply the scientific method of inquiry and deduction to the laws, theories and axioms of AC (alternating current)/DC (direct current) circuits to specific laboratory experiments. (I-XII)
5. Use Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws to solve series, parallel and series-parallel circuit problems. (III, IV, V, VI, VII)
6. Calculate voltages and currents of simple Resistor, Inductor, and Capacitor (RLC) circuits using phasors. (VII, XII)
7. Describe the properties of magnetic fields and magnetic materials, and relate to the operation of magnetic devices. (VIII)
8. Calculate equivalent capacitance of capacitors connected in series and parallel. (IX)
9. Determine the frequency and calculate the peak, peak-to-peak, and Root-mean-square (RMS) values of a sine wave. (XI)
10. Analyze the transient behavior of simple RC and RL circuits. (VII, XII)
11. Calculate inductive and capacitive reactance. (IX)
12. Calculate equivalent inductance of inductors connected in series and parallel. (IX)
13. Analyze the basic transformer. (X)
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ELE111   20036-20045 Circuit Analysis I
    I. Introduction to Electricity
        A. Circuit Components and Measuring Devices
        B. Electrical and Magnetic Units
        C. Scientific Notation
        D. Metric Prefixes
      II. Voltage, Current, and Resistance
          A. Atomic Structure
          B. Electrical Charge
          C. Voltage
          D. Current
          E. Resistance
          F. Electrical Circuits
          G. Basic Circuit Measurements
        III. Ohm's Law
            A. Ohm's Law
            B. Current Calculations
            C. Voltage Calculations
            D. Resistance Calculations
            E. The Current, Voltage, Resistance Relationship
          IV. Power and Energy
              A. Power and Energy
              B. Power in Electric Circuits
              C. Resistor Power Ratings
              D. Energy Loss and Voltage Drop in Resistance
              E. Power Supplies
            V. AC/DC Series Resistive Circuits
                A. Resistors in Series
                B. Rules and Laws for Series Circuits
                C. Voltage Dividers
                D. Ground
                E. Troubleshooting Series Circuit
              VI. AC/DC Parallel Resistive Circuit
                  A. Resistors in Parallel
                  B. Rules and Laws for Parallel Circuits
                  C. Current Sources
                  D. Current Dividers and Applications
                  E. Troubleshooting Parallel Circuits
                VII. AC/DC Series Parallel Circuits
                    A. Series Parallel Relationships
                    B. Analysis of Series Parallel Circuits
                    C. Loaded Voltage Dividers
                    D. Ladder Networks and the Wheatstone Bridge
                    E. Troubleshooting
                  VIII. Magnetism and Electromagnetism
                      A. Magnetic Fields
                      B. Electromagnetism
                      C. Hysteresis
                      D. Induction
                      E. Applications of Electromagnetism Induction
                    IX. Capacitance and Inductance
                        A. Definition and physical properties
                        B. Circuit configurations and total capacitance and total inductance
                      X. Transformers
                          A. Basic transformers
                          B. Step-up/step-down
                        XI. Alternating Current and Voltage: The sine wave
                          XII. Phasors and Complex Numbers
                              A. Rectangular and polar forms
                              B. Phasor arithmetic
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