Unit 6: Electrical and Electronic Principles

This unit aims to give learners an understanding of the underlying physical principles on which electrical and
electronic devices and circuits depend.

Specification -Unit 6: Electrical and Electronic Principles
Assessment Crteria - Unit 6
Learning Outcome 1 -Be able to use circuit theory to determine voltage, current and resistance in direct current (DC) circuits
DC circuit theory	P1 use DC circuit theory to calculate current, voltage and resistance in DC networks
	Kirchhoff's First Law - A simple animation that explains this
	Kirchoff's Second Law - Another simple animation to explain this
DC networks
	Diodes - Make presents the diode video
Measurements in DC circuits	P2 use a multimeter to carry out circuit measurements in a DC network
Learning Outcome 2 -Understand the concepts of capacitance and determine capacitance values in DC circuits
Capacitors	What is a capacitor ?
	How a capacitor works
	Make presents the capacitor
	An Introduction to Capacitors - A good tutorial
	Electric Permittivity
	Capacitor database - select a capacitor base on a variety of crtiteria
	A spread sheet to check answers for P6 and M2
	Basic Concepts in Electricity Book
	Capacitors and capacitance - A very good video
	Energy of a capacitor - A very good video
	Dielectrics in capacitors - Another very good video
Charging and discharging of a capacitor
DC network
Learning Outcome 3 -Know the principles and properties of magnetism
	Force on a current carrying conductor - animation
	Magnetism Tutorial
	BH curve saturation - wiki
	BH data pair generator - data to plot BH curves
	How a Magnet works?
	Electric Motor - Animation
Learning Outcome 4 -Be able to use single-phase alternating current (AC) theory.
	Phasor Diagram Animation
	Phasor addition and subtraction tutorial

 

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