Title: Lesson
Course: Electrical Theory (IC 101-IC 101) > Section: Web Content

Week 1 Assignments

To get everyone started the first thing I would like you to do is go to the video entitled Electrical Theory Syllabus, this will show you how to navigate through this course and walk you through the syllabus. After that I would like you to go to the forums part of the course (upper left, Week 1, Forums or to the right click on Forums), where I have put an introduction of myself, and I would like you to introduce yourself and tell everyone a little about yourself (example work background, hobbies, etc).
Some of the key points in this first week are:
Understanding the atom structure in relationship to conductors and insulators and how electrons become the source of current
How voltage is a measure of potential difference or electromotive force
Difference between an open circuit and a shorted circuit
Relationship between voltage, current, resistance, and power
Understand electron flow and polarity of voltage drops
Reading Assignment:
Volume 1   Chapter 1   Basic Concepts of Electricity  http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/DC/DC_1.html
Volume 1    Chapter 2   Ohm's Law (all but the computer simulations) http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/DC/DC_2.html
Volume 1    Chapter 4    Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes   (all but scientific notation in spice)   http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/DC/DC_4.html
Once you have completed the reading assignment, view the power points.  The links for the power points can be found in the upper right hand corner of this page under "handouts".
To help with the formulas needed in this course, I have added a "printable" formula sheet, this should help with having to search for them.
Content for the lesson is explained farther in the videos below, be sure to check them out.
There are an online worksheet available under the "Coursework" page.
IMPORTANT! When filling out the worksheets and tests be sure to use the proper scientific notation. Example .00012 Amp should be entered as 120mA (milli), or 470,000,000 Ohm should be entered as 470M Ohms (Mega). The only exception is for capacitance, industry for the most part does not mark capacitors in milli farads so 12,000 micro farads is the correct way to enter capacitance. Also the MyMTI software does not have a way to enter the u with a tail for micro or the omega symbol, so you will need to type in micro or ohms when needed. Remember the large M is for Mega and the small m is for milli. Also carry out your decimal places to three behind the decimal point (example 12,345,678 will be 12.346K, or .0000264123 will be 25.412micro). For the first couple of weeks I will be reviewing for these types of errors.
There are three circuit challenges for this week. There is a video below that you should view before doing these challenges that will walk you through saving your results to your computer. Then upload the document to the assignment in the "coursework" page. You MAY do these as many times as you like for the best score. Hope you have some fun with these challenges. Details on the assignments are in the coursework page. The three challenges are:
Ohmmeter Challenge - Wiring Test One
Basic Circuit Challenge - Ohm's Law II
Basic Circuit Challenge - Electrical Power One
Using the Multi-sims software, construct a simple circuit and upload it through the assignments page.  Instructions are included in the video section of Week 1.
Be sure to contact me if you are having any trouble or concerns with the assignments or anything else!