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Preliminary Exam Terminologies
Electrical Engineering > PEE > Electrical Circuits
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Interconnection of electrical elements and provides a complete path for the current.
Electrical circuits
Basic parts of a circuit:
Source
Wires
Load
Switch
The most basic quantity in an electric circuit
Electric charge
Electric charge is measured in
Coulombs
Charge can neither be created nor destroyed, only
transferred
Motion of charges
Current
Flow that goes from negative to positive
Electron Flow
Flow that goes from positive to negative
Conventional current flow
Current that remains constant with time.
Direct Current
Current that varies sinusoidally with time
Alternating Current
Energy required to move an electric charge through an element
Voltage
Voltage is also known as
Electromotive force
time rate of expending or absorbing energy
Power
Power is measured in
watts
Current enters the positive terminal
Absorbing power
Current enters the negative terminal
Supplying power
Capacity to do work
energy
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