Course Overview
A course designed to provide you with the theoretical understanding and practical skills needed to use measuring and testing devices to troubleshoot, repair, and adjust aircraft electrical circuits. Activities focus on learning the principles and concepts of electricity including: electromagnetism, AC and DC electricity, power conversion, electronic devices, wiring practices and batteries.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
10.0
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Explain characteristics of electronic and electrical circuits.
- Explain units of measurement..
- Perform measurement.
- Explain wiring practices.
- Use wiring diagrams and schematics.
- Perform wiring connections.
- Describe construction and maintenance of aircraft batteries.
- Explain characteristics of DC circuits and components.
- Use a multimeter.
- Explain and analyze series and parallel circuits.
- Explain principles of AC electronics.
- Describe function generators and oscilloscopes.
- Describe reactance, impedance.
- Describe filters.
- Describe electromagnetism, solenoids, relays.
- Describe transformers.
- Describe resonant circuits.
- Explain semiconductors.
- Test, troubleshoot, repair, adjust, remove and replace diodes and transistors.
- Describe other semiconductors.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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