ELECTRICAL SCIENCE

Basic Electrical Theory REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Gussow, Milton, Schaum's Outline Series, Basic Electricity,McGraw-Hill.

Academic Projzram for Nuclear Power Plant Personnel,Volume IV, Columbia, MD: General Physics Corporation, Library of Congress Card #A 326517, 1982.

Sienko and Plane, Chemical Principles and Properties,2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill.

Academic Program for Nuclear Power Plant Personnel,Volume II, Columbia, MD: General Physics Corporation, Library of Congress Card #A 326517, 1982.

Nasar and Unnewehr, Electromechanics and Electric Machines,John Wiley and Sons.

Van Valkenburgh, Nooger, and Neville, Basic Electricity,Vol. 5, Hayden Book Company.

Exide Industrial Marketing Division, The Storage Battery, Lead-Acid Type,The Electric Storage Battery Company.

Lister, Eugene C., Electric Circuits and Machines,5^th Edition, McGraw-Hill.

Croft, Carr, Watt, and Summers, American Electricians Handbook,10^th Edition, McGrawHill.

Mason, C. Russel, The Art and Science of Protective Relate,John Wiley and Sons. Mileaf, Harry, Electricity One - Seven,Revised 2nd Edition, Hayden Book Company. Buban and Schmitt, Understandiniz Electricity and Electronics,3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill. Kidwell, Walter, Electrical Instruments and Measurements,McGraw-Hill.

TERMINAL OBJECTIVE

1.0 Given a simple electrical circuit, APPLY basic electrical theory fundamental principles to describe circuit operation.

ENABLING OBJECTIVES

1.1 DESCRIBE the following terms:

a. Electrostatic force

b. Electrostatic field

c. Potential difference

d. Electromotive force (EMF)

e. Ion charge

1.2 DEFINE the following terms:

a. Conductor

b. Insulator

c. Resistor

d. Electron current flow

e. Conventional current flow

f. Direct current (DC)

g. Alternating current (AC)

h. Ideal source

i. Real source

1.3 DESCRIBE the following electrical parameters, including the unit of measurement and the relationship to other parameters.

a. Voltage

b. Current

c. Resistance

d. Conductance

e. Power

f. Inductance

g. Capacitance

1.4 Given any two of the three component values of Ohm's Law, DETERMINE the unknown component value.

DESCRIBE how the following methods produce a voltage:

a. Electrochemistry

b. Static electricity

c. Magnetic Induction

d. Piezoelectric effect

e. Thermoelectricity

f. Photoelectric effect

g. Thermionic emission

DEFINE the following terms:

a. Magnetic flux

b. Magnetic flux density

c. Weber

d. Permeability

e. Magnetomotive force (mmf)

f. Ampere turns