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    This document defines basic electrical quantities like voltage, current, resistance and their units, and discusses engineering notation and metric prefixes used to express large and small numerical values in electrical engineering. It explains units for electrical measurements, scientific notation for expressing numbers, engineering notation as a variation of scientific notation, and common metric prefixes used as shorthand for powers of ten in engineering notation.

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    Quantities and Units

    Lecture-01
    Objectives

    1. Define electrical quantities.


    2. Define electrical quantities.
    3. Explain Engineering Notation.
    4. Discuss Metric Prefixes used in electrical engineering
    and their conversion.
    Electrical Quantities

    • Voltage, Current and Resistance are the basic electrical


    quantities present in all electrical circuit
    Ampere :
    is the amount of electricity flowing through a circuit.
    Volt
    • Potential difference or electromotive force (EMF)
    between two points of a conducting wire
    • The letter E, which stands for EMF, or the letter V,
    which stands for volt, can be used to represent
    voltage in an algebraic formula.
    Ohm
    • Ohm is the unit of resistance to current flow.
    • Ohm is the amount of resistance that allows one ampere
    of current to flow when the applied voltage is one volt.
    • The symbol used to represent an ohm, or resistance, is the
    Greek letter omega (Ω).
    • The letter R, which stands for resistance, is used to
    represent ohms in an algebraic formula.
    • The symbol for resistance used in electronic circuits is shown
    below:
    Watt
    • Wattage is a measure of the amount of power that is
    being used in a circuit.
    • In an algebraic formula, wattage is generally
    represented either by the letter P, for power.

    746 Watts = One H.P.


    Units
    • Measurements are made with respect to a standard which
    defines a unit.
    • How far/big? [m]
    • How much time [s]
    • How much current [Amp]
    • How much resistance [Ohm]
    • How much voltage [V]
    Scientific Notation
    Scientific Notation:
    is a conventional method to express large
    and small numbers and to perform calculations involving
    such numbers.
    Scientific Notation

    Examples:

    200,000 is expressed as 2 x 105

    0.00022 is expressed as 2.2 x 10-4


    Engineering Notation
    • Engineering notation is like Scientific Notation, but in Engineering
    notation a number can have from 1 to 3 digits to the left of the decimal
    point and the power-of-ten exponent must be a multiple of three.

    Example:
    86,000 in Engineering notation is expressed as 86 x 103

    In Scientific notation 86,000 is expressed as 8.6 x 104


    Metric Prefixes
    Metric Prefixes symbols are used in conjunction with engineering notation as a
    “short hand” for the certain powers of ten that are used.
    Metric Prefixes

    • Metric prefix is used to replace the power of ten in a number that is


    expressed in engineering notation.
    • Metric prefixes are used only with numbers that have a unit of measure, such
    as voltage or current.

    Example:

    25 x 10-3 A, using metric prefixes


    is expressed as 25 mA.
    Examples
    • Convert 0.35 mA to µA
    • Convert 1500 µA to mA
    • Convert 0.0022 µF to pF
    • Convert 7100 kΩ to MΩ
    • Convert 33 V to KV
    • Convert 3.4 KΩ to Ω
    Precision

    Precision refers to how well a quantity can be


    determined.

    Example
    Precision - I measure the length of an object with a
    ruler and I am confident that my measured value, in
    meters, is correct to 3 decimal places. I can now say
    that my measurement has a precision of 1mm.

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