Introduction to Electricity/Electronics
An introduction to the origins of the awareness of electricity and the development of scientific understanding of it in the 19th and 20th centuries. Static versus dynamic, DC versus AC, power generation/distribution and uses, costs, electrical safety, and hazards. Common electrical circuits, elementary use of Ohm’s law, power, and cost considerations. Electronics from a block diagram approach: power supplies, amplifiers, oscillators, RF devices and systems, including radio, television, satellite communication, cellular phone technology, Global Positioning System. Computers and their applications. Two lecture hours, two lab hours. Prerequisite: Ability to use algebra on a high school level. Laboratory fee.

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