Electricity I for Fire

This course is designed to educate the student in DC Electric circuit fundamentals, being the foundation and prerequisite for multiple electrical and electronic courses. The course begins with the coverage of SI units, scientific and engineering notation, atom structure and electrical quantities. It proceeds with Ohm's law, electrical power, series, parallel and series-parallel circuits, which is the backbone of electric circuit theory. The basic theorems are studied: Khirchhoff's voltage and current laws, Thevenin's law to simplify complicated DC circuits and also some basic elements in Magnetism / Electromagnetism. The course concludes with an introduction to electronics, studying the basics of diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers. Throughout this course the student is required to complete weekly lab experiments and an associated lab report.