IST 105: Basic Electricity-DC Circuit Analysis

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Class Program
Industrial Systems Technology
Credits 5 Lecture Hours 33 Lab Hours 44
Fundamentals of DC electricity as applied to series, parallel, and series-parallel circuits. Use of test equipment and troubleshooting simple circuits.

Prerequisites

MAP 103/MAP 117/ MATH 094 or concurrent enrollment or Instructor Permission
Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

  1. Safely perform DC electrical circuit tests.
  2. Solve basic electrical problems involving voltage, current, resistance, and power.
  3. Explain the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
  4. Use a multi-meter to measure voltage, current, and resistance.
  5. Assemble, analyze, troubleshoot, and solve problems involving series, parallel, and series-parallel DC circuits using multimeters.
Course Content Outline
  1. Introduction:
    1. Atomic theory
      1. Structure of Matter
      2. Electron Theory
      3. Electro-static
      4. Measurement of Charge
  2. Energy Conversions
  3. Conductors, Semi- Conductors, Resistance
  4. Electrical quantities
    1. Definitions
    2. Units
    3. Notation
  5. Current, Voltage, & Power relationships
  6. Ohm’s Law
  7. Physical measurement
  8. series circuits
  9. parallel circuits
  10. Series - parallel circuits
  11. Kirchoff’s Voltage Law (Loop analysis)
  12. Kirchoff’s Current Law (Nodal analysis)
  13. Circuit Theorems
    1. Superposition
    2. Thevenins”
    3. Nortons
    4. Maximum Power Transfer
  14. Cells & Batteries
  15. Magnetism & Electro-Magnetism
  16. DC measuring instruments