Pre-entry guidance
Pre-entry guidance is required before booking a place on this course. Please contact our Distance Learning Co-ordinators for more information.
Why take this course?
This Unit was developed for the HNC/HND Electronics Group Awards or may be taken as a stand alone HN Unit. It has been designed to allow you to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in basic electrical and magnetic concepts and theorems, that underpin so much of more advanced studies in electronic and electrical engineering.
A strong emphasis is placed on putting your theoretical knowledge – within a practical electronics and electrical context – into practice, as you will be provided with the opportunity to conduct practical experiments and computer simulations on electronic and electrical circuits. If you have studied these subjects before, the early parts of this unit will provide you with an opportunity to revise the electrical concepts and theorems you have learnt in previous courses.
Credit points and level: 1 HN credit at SCQF level 7: (8 SCQF credit points at SCQF level 7)
What you will experience
You will get the opportunity to study the ways in which resistance-inductance and resistance — capacitance series electrical circuits respond to the sudden application or removal of a DC voltage, for example when a switch is closed or opened in such circuits. This in turn will introduce you to the ideas of transient responses that are so important in so many branches of engineering. You will develop the necessary knowledge and skills to solve single-phase ac circuit problems using complex notation – a powerful tool for solving a range of ac circuit problems. A good grasp of this tool will allow you to solve complex problems involving combinations of series and parallel impedance. You will also examine first order transient responses as found in r-l and r-c series circuits.
By the end of the Unit you will be expected to solve simple electrical and electronic problems using basic electrical concepts and theorems. You will also be expected to sketch the graphs associated with resistance-inductance and resistance-capacitance series circuits when a dc voltage is suddenly applied or removed from these circuits. You will also be expected to use complex notation to solve a range of single-phase ac circuit problems.
The formal assessment will consist of a single assessment paper lasting one hour and thirty minutes. The assessment will be conducted under closed-book conditions in which you will not be allowed to take notes, textbooks etc. into the assessment. However, you will be allowed to use a scientific calculator. You will sit this assessment paper at the end of the unit.
Key Facts
Everything you need to know before applying for this course.
Additional costs
This course involves an additional SQA fee. Further information is available here.
Fee Waiver (Remission of Fees)
Your course may be free if you are not a full time student with NESCol and you are : in receipt of benefits; or care-experienced; or your household taxable income falls below defined levels.
Individual Training Account (ITA)
This course is eligible for ITA funding which offers up to £200 towards the cost of training. Conditions apply.
Entry requirements
It would be an advantage for candidates to have a basic knowledge and understanding of electrical, electrostatic and magnetic concepts and theorems, although this is not absolutely essential. Basic knowledge and understanding of these concepts and theorems may be evidenced by possession of a Higher in Electrical Engineering or the following National Qualification units:
- (D136 12) AC Circuit Theory and Applications
- (E9RR 12) Circuit Elements
- (E9RS 12) DC and AC Circuit Responses
- (E9RV 12) Electromagnetics
- (E9RW 12) Electrostatics
- (E9RX 12) Network Analysis
- (E9S0 12) Single Phase AC
It may also be an advantage for candidates to take the Mathematics for Engineering 1: Electronics and Electrical before this unit, as it contains an outcome on complex numbers which would underpin much of the work involved in the second outcome of this unit.
Pre-entry guidance
Pre-entry guidance is required before booking a place on this course. Please contact our Distance Learning Co-ordinators for more information.
Additional costs
This course involves an additional SQA fee. Further information is available here.
Fee Waiver (Remission of Fees)
Your course may be free if you are not a full time student with NESCol and you are : in receipt of benefits; or care-experienced; or your household taxable income falls below defined levels.
Individual Training Account (ITA)
This course is eligible for ITA funding which offers up to £200 towards the cost of training. Conditions apply.
Entry requirements
It would be an advantage for candidates to have a basic knowledge and understanding of electrical, electrostatic and magnetic concepts and theorems, although this is not absolutely essential. Basic knowledge and understanding of these concepts and theorems may be evidenced by possession of a Higher in Electrical Engineering or the following National Qualification units:
- (D136 12) AC Circuit Theory and Applications
- (E9RR 12) Circuit Elements
- (E9RS 12) DC and AC Circuit Responses
- (E9RV 12) Electromagnetics
- (E9RW 12) Electrostatics
- (E9RX 12) Network Analysis
- (E9S0 12) Single Phase AC
It may also be an advantage for candidates to take the Mathematics for Engineering 1: Electronics and Electrical before this unit, as it contains an outcome on complex numbers which would underpin much of the work involved in the second outcome of this unit.
Pre-entry guidance
Pre-entry guidance is required before booking a place on this course. Please contact our Distance Learning Co-ordinators for more information.
Additional costs
This course involves an additional SQA fee. Further information is available here.
Fee Waiver (Remission of Fees)
Your course may be free if you are not a full time student with NESCol and you are : in receipt of benefits; or care-experienced; or your household taxable income falls below defined levels.
Individual Training Account (ITA)
This course is eligible for ITA funding which offers up to £200 towards the cost of training. Conditions apply.
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