Electrical Materials and Fields

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Understand the principles governing electrostatic, electricity and electromagnetism
• Have basic knowledge of electrical materials and their behaviour to electromagnetic fields
• Develop knowledge of energy storage, batteries and sustainable energy

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Have ability to use fundamental knowledge to investigate new and emerging technologies
• Meet this module's contribution to the transferable and generic learning outcomes of ELEC1029
• Record and report laboratory work
• Understand engineering principles and apply them to analyse key engineering processes
• Undertake laboratory experiment as part of a small team

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Meet this module's contribution to the subject specific intellectual learning outcomes of ELEC1029
• Apply underlying principles to solve practical problems
• Use mathematical skills to analyse real problems

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Perform range of electrical measurements on dc motor performance
• Identify material applications based on its behaviours under electromagnetic fields
• Meet this module's contribution to the subject specific practical learning outcomes of ELEC1029
• Relate B-H loop to hysteresis loss of magnetic materials

Oscillations and Waves

• Simple harmonic oscillation
• Coupled oscillators
• Wave equation
• Interference of waves
• Standing waves and resonance
• Transmissions lines
• Optical waveguiding
• Electromagnetic waves

Electromagnetism

• Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law.
• Electric field and flux.
• Gauss Law and its application
• Electric Potential and equipotential surfaces
• Capacitance and Capacitors inc. ultracapacitors
• Current, Resistance, Resistors inc. temperature coefficient
• Circuits and power dissipation
• Magnetic Fields and Hall effect
• Magnetic fields due to current and Ampere's law
• Inductance, Inductors, and Faraday's law
• Magnetism of Matter (inc. hysteresis) and Maxwell equations

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.