Basic Principles Flashcards

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Describe what a passive component is?

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Components without a separate power supply.

Typically Modify Voltage or Current.

Includes resistors capacitors and inductors

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Describe what an Active Component is

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Components with their own a separate power supply.

Typically adds to the Voltage or Current.

mostly in the form of silicon chips

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What does this symbol represent

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Connection to Ground

Clamps the negative terminal to the potential of the earth (0v) to create a fixed reference

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Define Current

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Amount of charge that flows per second due to an electromotive force (voltage)

Amps

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Explain why current flows in the opposite direction to the flow of electrons

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. Electron gains enough energy to remove itself from its valence orbit

. Leaves behinds a local +ve charge

. An electron that has removed itself from an adjacent atoms valence shell , move into the valence orbit of the original atom. Making the local charge back to neutral

. Repeated Droping and removing of electrons from valence bands causes the positive charge to shuffle along. Creating a flow of charge.

This is current, opposite direction to the movement of electrons

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What’s the difference between thermal excitation and applied voltage as ways that cause movement of electrons through wires

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Thermal excitation causes electrons to move in random directions

Applied voltages cause electrons to move in a certain direction

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Explain and Derive the Equation for Voltage

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. Electrons that move across a battery are attracted to the atoms that have lost an electron, due to a difference in charge

. This creates an electrostatic field

Work is done moving the charge a distance within this magnetic field within the battery ,

Potential difference (voltage) is created by moving a charge between 2 points in an Electric field

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Define Voltage

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the potential energy that is built up per unit charge when a charge is moved against an attractive within an electric field.

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Show how Power = Current X Volatge

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Explain the Voltage Waterfall analogy

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. Current moves from the high potential energy to the low potential energy , potential energy is dissipated as the water falls

Voltage is the pump that moves the water from the low potential to the high potential

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Give an explanation to the unit of a volt

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Potential difference create when 1 Joule of work is done to move 1 coulomb of charge between 2 points in an electric field

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What is impedance

Why is impedance not necessarily resistance

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The opposition to the flow of current

Electrical Resistance is a type of impedance, however it is not the sole thing that opposite the flow of current . (electrical Reactance for example)

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Explain Electrical Resistance

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Collisions between electrons and atoms in a material causing the electrons to loose energy

Dependant on a type of material

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Explain Voltage Drops

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Voltage/ Potential Energy is dissipated across an impedance as the electrons are loosing energy if a current is flowing.

Voltage is therefore lost and energy is disipated across a component . Causing a “Voltage drop”

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What is Resistivity

What’s the Equation?

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Measure of how easily charge can flow through a material

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What’s the convention of the direction of the flow of current

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+ve terminal to a -ve terminal

movement of vacancies (positive charge) in the valence band of the conductors atoms

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Explain What Virtual Ground is

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Potential difference is the difference in the electric potential of the two terminals

A 555V positive terminal and a 550V negative terminal has the same potential difference as a 5v positive and 0v negative terminal

Electric potential of Earth = 0v , hence when you connect circuit to virtual ground the negative terminal is equal to 0v

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What is Kirchhoff voltage law

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Sum of all voltage rises in a closed loop is equal to the sum of voltage drops in the same closed loop

Conservation of Energy

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What’s the voltage divider equation

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Explain a DC Voltage source

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Maintains a constant electric potential difference between the positive and negative terminals.

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What’s the difference between an ideal and Real Voltage Source?

What’s the formula associated with a Real Voltage Source

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Ideal Voltage source has no internal impedance.
Real Voltage Source is modelled as an Ideal Voltage Source and a Resistor.

EMF = I X ( R(internal) + R(Load). )

Where I X R(load) = Terminal Voltage

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9 = I1 ( 20+2.5 )
I1 = 0.4 Amps
Terminal Voltage = 0.4 X 20 = 8V

9 = I2 (500+2.5)
I2 = 0.0179 Amps
Terminal Voltage = 0.0179X 500 = 8.95V

if R load&raquo_space;»> R Internal then Terminal Voltage is larger, more voltage dissipated in load then battery

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Derive the equation for the resistance of the following circuit

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What’s the potential difference between A & B What’s the current in each Branch
1.04V 75 ohm branch = 0.0140 amps 47,50 ohm branch = 0.0108 amps Total current = 0.0247 amps
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34 ohms
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Explain Thevenin’s theorem
Any linear circuit can be simplified into an equivalent circuit of a single ideal voltage source and a series resistance.
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Find thevenin Resistance
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Find thevenin Voltage and Draw Equivalent circuit
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what are these symbols representing And Define it
Current Source Device that outputs a constant current , ideally independent (unaffected) of the load connected to it
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Explain the difference from an ideal and a real current source
Ideal current source outputs a constant current, Voltage rise of the current source increases linearly as Rload decreases. Real current sources it is not perfectly linear. They are modelled as a High Resistance resistor in parallel to the current source.
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Define a node
junction in a circuit where 2 more components are connected
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Define a circuit
multiple closed loops of components and generators
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define a loop
any internal loop of components including generators
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define a mesh
Closed loop/path that doesn’t contain no other loops inside it.
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define a network
sum of the connected circuits in an electronic.
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Explain Kirchhoff current law
Sum of currents into a node is equal to the sum of currents exiting a node. Conservation of charge
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What’s the Current Divider Equation
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Describe Mesh Analysis
Identifying Circulating Currents that flow around the circuits mesh’s Construct Equations using KVL , including all circulating currents that interact with the mesh. Solve for Current
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Describe Superposition
Calculate the response to only 1 voltage or current source , by replacing all other voltages sources with short circuits and current sources with open circuits Repeat for other sources Superimpose the results from each calculation
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Use mesh analysis to calculate the following currents i3 is incorrect decimal
Direction of the mesh’s current you are analysing is always positive
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Calculate the Theverin Resistance of the following circuit
5 ohms
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Calculate the Theverin Voltage of the following circuit Rth = 5 Ohms
3v
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