Basics of Electricity Course
Free Course on Electrical Theory
Welcome to the first course in the STEP 2000 series, Siemens Technical Education Program.
The course is a FREE self-study Electrical Engineering course designed to increase your automation and control knowledge at your own pace.
These courses are a fantastic study guide for students and also serve as a useful refresher course for engineers who are a long time out of college.
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This course covers the Basics of Electrical Theory and is designed to prepare you for subsequent courses provided by Siemens.
Upon completion of Basics of Electricity you will be able to:
• Explain the difference between conductors and insulators
• Use Ohm’s Law to calculate current, voltage, and resistance
• Calculate equivalent resistance for series, parallel, or series-parallel circuits
• Calculate voltage drop across a resistor
• Calculate power given other basic values
• Identify factors that determine the strength and polarity of a current-carrying coil’s magnetic field
• Determine peak, instantaneous, and effective values of an AC sine wave
• Identify factors that effect inductive reactance and capacitive reactance in an AC circuit
• Calculate total impedance of an AC circuit
• Explain the difference between real power and apparent power in an AC circuit
• Calculate primary and secondary voltages of single-phase and three-phase transformers
• Calculate kVA of a transformer
The course contents are listed below
Part 1 Contains:
Electron Theory
Conductors, Insulators and Semiconductors
Electric Charges
Current
Voltage
Resistance
Simple Electric Circuit
Ohm’s Law
DC Series Circuit
DC Parallel Circuit
Series-Parallel Circuits
Power
Magnetism
Electromagnetism
Introduction to AC
Part 2 Contains:
AC Generators
Frequency
Voltage and Current
Inductance
Capacitance
Inductive and Capacitive Reactance
Series R-L-C Circuit
Parallel R-L-C Circuit
Power and Power Factor in an AC Circuit
Transformers
Three-Phase Transformers
Review Answers
Final Exam
This course has been developed by Siemens and can be downloaded from the below link.
Download the Free Course Book Part 1 Here
Download the Free Course Book Part 2 Here
Siemens Website
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