End of year examination

On-line tests

The list below provides an indicative list of topics which may be covered in this module:

Essential Knowledge

• Base units 
• SI Units
• Prefixes describing size or quantity
• Converting between equivalent units

Electric Circuits

• Charge, current and potential difference
• Electromotive force (e.m.f.), and internal resistance
• Current-voltage characteristics
• Resistivity
• Electromotive force
• Alternating currents

Electronic Principles
• Standard circuit symbols in circuit diagrams; 
• Measuring instruments; 
• lumped parameter abstraction to analyse circuits; 
• Passive and active components to generate, process and display signals; 
• Truth tables, Boolean algebra and graphs to represent the transfer characteristics of components and systems. 
• The concepts of conductors and insulators in terms of the mobility of charge; 
• Semiconductors
• Electrical Power 
• The conversion of energy from electrical to other forms as charge moves round a circuit; 
• The behaviour of currents at a junction, KIL; 
• The voltage across a series circuit is the sum of the voltage across the components, KVL; 
• The current in a series circuit is the same in all the components. 


Particles
• Constituent parts of the atom


Fields
• Electric fields, Coulomb’s law, electric field strength and electric potential
• Magnetic fields, magnetic flux, charge moving in a magnetic field.
• Capacitance
• Electromagnetic induction

Foundation Physics - Particles, Fields and Electricity - 3505USST

Foundation Physics - Particles, Fields and Electricity

Illustrate basic techniques to determine the behaviour of digital components and systems.

Describe simple fields and their applications mathematically.

Explain the behaviour of simple resistive circuits and apply the equations which characterise them.

Characterise the constituent parts of the atom, their charge and mass, how they determine the size of the nucleus and the forces that govern their behaviour.