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AC Electricity
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course presents the basic definitions and laws of AC electrical circuits.
PREREQUISITES:
DC Electricity and Trigonometry for the Technician or equivalent skills.
COURSE LENGTH:
This course contains 20 lessons and 20 drills.
UNIT-BY-UNIT TOPICAL OUTLINE:
Unit 1 - Electromagnetic induction
Unit 2 - Generating alternating current
Unit 3 - Measuring alternating voltages and currents: peak, peak-to-peak, average, instantaneous, root mean square
Unit 4 - Frequency, period, phase shift
Unit 5 - Inductors and inductance, series inductors, parallel inductors
Unit 6 - Transformers, turns ratio, efficiency, color coding, phase indicators
Unit 7 - Inductive reactance, impedance
Unit 8 - Series inductive reactance, parallel inductive reactance, series-parallel inductive reactance, inductive phase shift
Unit 9 - Inductive and resistive series circuits
Unit 10 - Inductive and resistive parallel circuits
Unit 11 - Charge and discharge, the inductive time constant
Unit 12 - Capacitors and capacitance, series capacitors, parallel capacitors, types of capacitors
Unit 13 - Capacitive reactance, phase shifts, parallel capacitive reactance, series capacitive reactance, series-parallel capacitive reactance
Unit 14 - Capacitive and resistive series circuits
Unit 15 - Capacitive and resistive parallel circuits
Unit 16 - The capacitive time constant
Unit 17 - LRC circuits
Unit 18 - Resonant circuits, power in an LRC circuit
Unit 19 - Q for resonant circuits, passive filters
Unit 20 - AC circuit analysis, series/parallel equivalences
NOTES:
The computerized drill units give you virtually unlimited practice on key computational skills used in analyzing AC circuits.
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