PLT 2020 - Electrical Fundamentals
Clock Hours: 90
Prerequisites: PLT 2002
Course Description:
Because of the material covered in future courses students must have electrical fundamental skills refreshed or developed.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will study the basics of electricity. They will cover series and parallel circuits and familiarize themselves again with Multimeter use. The instruction will be given by NIDA and Circuit Challenge software.
Ohm’s Law and Power
1. Define Ohm’s Law and describe how voltage, current, and resistance are related.
2. Define power and describe how voltage, current, and Ohm’s Law are related to power.
3. Prove the Ohm’s Law relationship of voltage, current, and resistance.
Series Circuits
1. Identify a series circuit.
2. Calculate total resistance in a series circuit.
3. Calculate current in a series circuit.
4. Calculate voltage drops across resistance.
5. Measure current values in a series circuit.
6. Measure voltage drops in a series circuit.
7. Follow a logical troubleshooting procedure.
8. Identify an open, short, and a changed value component in a series circuit.
9. Analyze a series circuit and determine if the circuit is defective.
10. Determine if a series circuit is open and identify which component is open.
11. Determine if a series circuit has a short and identify which component is shorted.
12. Determine if a series circuit has a changed value and identify which resistor has a changed value.
Parallel Circuits
1. Identify a parallel circuit.
2. Recognize that the applied voltage is the same across each branch.
3. Calculate current in each branch of a parallel circuit.
4. Calculate total current from the sum of the individual branches of a parallel circuit.
5. Calculate total resistance in a parallel circuit.
6. Measure the applied voltage across each branch in a parallel circuit.
7. Measure current across each branch in a parallel circuit.
8. Measure total resistance in a parallel circuit.
9. Identify an open, short, and changed value component in a parallel circuit.
10. Analyze a parallel circuit and determine if the circuit is defective.
Series-Parallel Circuits
1. Identify a series-parallel circuit.
2. Calculate total resistance in a series-parallel circuit.
3. Calculate current in a series-parallel circuit.
4. Calculate voltage drops in a series-parallel circuit.
5. Measure resistance values in a series-parallel circuit.
6. Measure current values in a series-parallel circuit.
7. Measure voltage drops in a series-parallel circuit.
8. Identify an open, short, and changed value component in a series-parallel circuit.
9. Analyze a series-parallel circuit and determine if the circuit is defective
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