Basic principles of electricity
This course will introduce the students to the basic principles of electricity including Ohm’s law, conductors, insulators, DC circuits, series and parallel circuits, voltage dividers, basic AC circuits, AC sine wave analysis, capacitors and inductors. This course will cover AC theory and circuitry, time constant, AC complex numbers, reactance and impedance, LRC circuits, transformers, relays, polyphase AC circuits, and power factor. Also covered within this course will be industrial math relating to electrical circuitry and the use of electrical measurement devices, i.e., fractions, decimals, formula re-arranging and meanings, vectors and basic triangle and geometric principles.
May 3 through June 30 (no class week of May 30)
(total 64 hours of instruction)
4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Fee: $1,330
For more information or to register, contact Debra Conway at dxk40@psu.edu or 570-450-3110.