2019 - 2020 College Catalog 
    
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2019 - 2020 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EICR 250 - Electrical Theory IV


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): EICR 210  or by permission of instructor

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

Major; Electrical Construction and Instrumentation - AOS , Electrical Construction and Instrumentation - AAS , Refrigeration and Instrumentation - AOS , Plumbing and Electrical Instrumentation - AOS , Mechatronics Design - AAS , Mechatronics Design - AOS  or Electrical Instrumentation Certificate (58) 

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:
  1. Appreciate the critical nature of AC power to essentially every type of infrastructure and critical service that exists
  2. Develop comfortable working knowledge of basic trig functions needed for AC calculations
  3. Develop understanding of the relationships between voltage, current, phase angle, true power, apparent power, reactive power, and power factor in AC circuits
  4. Apply knowledge of inductance to explain common electrical phenomena including voltage transformation
  5. Apply knowledge of capacitance to explain common electrical phenomena including capacitor-start single-phase motors
  6. Apply knowledge of capacitance to explain how capacitor banks are used for power factor correction in power distribution networks