Voltage, Current, and Circuits

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 1  ENGI 128 INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING SYSTEMS Lecture 6: Voltage, Current, and Circuits “Understand Your Technical World”

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  • 1ENGI128INTRODUCTIONTOENGINEERINGSYSTEMS

    Lecture6:Voltage,Current,andCircuits

    UnderstandYourTechnicalWorld

  • 2WelcometoElectricalEngineering!

    Wewillstartourstudyofelectricalengineeringwithitstwomostbasicconcepts:voltageandcurrent.

    Wellintroducethemostpopularelementinelectricity,theresistor

    Wellthenmovetothesimplestpossiblecircuit,thevoltagedivider.

    Finally,wellgooversomemeasurementtechniquesthatyouwillneednextweek.

  • 3Voltage&Current

  • 4Well,whatarethey?

    Voltage=Electricalpotentialenergy(theabilitytodowork)

    Current=Flowofelectricity(workbeingdone)

  • 5Voltagefunfacts: Voltageisthedifference inelectricalpotentialenergy Therefore,voltagemustbemeasuredbetweentwopoints Everysystemhassomereferencevoltagethatwedefineas0.Thisisalsocalledground.

    Allothervoltagesaremeasuredrelativetoground

  • 6Currentfunfacts: Currentonlyflowsfromhighvoltagetolowvoltage Currentrequiresavoltage,butnottheotherwayaround Currentcannotleaveacircuit,itmustbeconserved

  • 7[currentandvoltagedemo]

  • 8Howdoyougettheelectronsoffoftheground?

    Currentcantflowwithoutawaytogetbackhome Youhavetoaddenergytotheelectronstoincreasetheirvoltage

    Thiscreatesacircuit Alltheelectricitywewilllookatandtalkaboutisinacircuit Acircuitisaclosedsystemofelectrons:

    Thismeansthatweneverloseanyelectrons Thismeansthatyoucantpushelectronsdownaopenendedwire Thereneedstobeapathtogetbacktohome Ifyouwantthecircuittorunmorethanonce,youneedtogetvoltagebackintotheelectrons

  • 9PowerSupplies

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    Wheredowegetvoltageandcurrentfrom?

    Batteries

    Whatelse?

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    Whyallthebatteries?

    Butwhydoeseverythingusemorethanonebattery?

    a.Tohavemoreenergy

    b.Tohavemorevoltage

    c.Tohavemorecurrent

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    AddingVoltage:Multiplebatteries

    Puttingbatteriesinseries:

    Puttingbatteriesinparallel:

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    Resistors

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    Resistors

    Resistorsimpedetheflowofcurrent

    Sowhyintheworldwouldyoueverusethem? Becauseascurrentflowsthroughthem,itcreatesavoltagedropacrosstheresistor

    Thischangeinvoltagecanbeuseful.

    Andthisbringsustoouronlyequationinthismodule,Ohmslaw: voltage=current resistance V=IR

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    readingresistors:colorcodes

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    Schematics

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    SchematicSymbols

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    ASchematicDiagram:TheVoltageDivider

    Singlemostusefulcircuitontheplanet:

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    TheVoltageDivider

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    [showroneschematicshighlightresistors&voltagedividers]

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    VoltageDividerMathOhmsLaw

    Conservationofcurrent

    Kirchhoffsvoltagelaw

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    [showroneschematicsandhighlightvoltagedividers]

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    TakingElectricalMeasurements

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    TheMultimeter

    OK,alltogethernow: Measuringvoltage Measuringresistance

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    [multimeter examples]