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Fundamentals of Electricity Module 1 W1

This document provides information about competency-based learning materials for the qualification of Electronic Products Assembly and Servicing NC II. It includes an introduction to the module on fundamentals of electricity, which aims to familiarize students with electrical technologies as represented in the home environment. The module contains learning activities to help students understand the extent and impact of electrical technologies, and identify technological areas that rely on electrical systems.

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Fundamentals of Electricity Module 1 W1

This document provides information about competency-based learning materials for the qualification of Electronic Products Assembly and Servicing NC II. It includes an introduction to the module on fundamentals of electricity, which aims to familiarize students with electrical technologies as represented in the home environment. The module contains learning activities to help students understand the extent and impact of electrical technologies, and identify technological areas that rely on electrical systems.

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COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING MATERIALS

Sector:
ELECTRONICS
Qualification:
ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS ASSEMBLY AND SERVICING NC II
Unit of Competency:
FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY
Module Title:
INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICITY

SANAIVHS
Centro San Antonio, City of Ilagan, Isabela
HOW TO USE THIS MODULE

Welcome to the Module “Intoduction to Electricity”. This module


contains training materials and activities for you to accomplish.

The unit of competency “Fundamentals of Electricity”, contains the


knowledge, skills and attitudes required for ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS
ASSEMBLY AND SERVICING NC II.

You are required to go through a series of learning activities in order to


complete each of the learning outcomes of the module. In each learning
outcome there are Information Sheets and Activity Sheets. Follow these
activities on your own and answer the Self-Check at the end of each learning
activity.
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask your for assistance.

INTRODUCTION

Program/ Course: Electronic Product Assembly and Servicing


Unit of Competency: Fundamentals of Electricity
Module: Introduction to Electricity

INTRODUCTION:

In this module, students will become familiar with the comprehensive


electrical technologies as represented by the home environment.
Electrical Technologies includes awareness of the impact and diversity of
electrical/electronic technologies and systems in the home environment.

SUMMARY OF LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Upon completion of the module you should be able to:


1 To know the extent of electrical technologies and their dynamic effects
on all other technological areas.
2 To identify the different technological areas which rely on electrical
systems and/or technology.
TECHNICAL TERMS

Checklist - help organize data by category

Durability - enduring; resisting wear

Flowchart - describes process in as much detail as possible by

graphically displaying the steps in proper sequence

Hardware - refers to the electronic and mechanical components that

make a computer system.

Histogram - plots data in a frequency distribution table

Hostile - being an enemy; unfriendly

ISO - International Standardization Organization

OHS - Occupational Health and Safety procedures

Pareto diagram- puts data in a hierarchical order which allows the

significant problems to be connected first.

PPE - personal protective equipment

Quality - essential character nature; degree or grade of excellence

Scatter diagram- shows how two variables are related and is this used

to test for cause and effect relationships.


Standards -as one serving the emblem of a nation; something as

accepted as a basis for comparison

Upon completion of the module you should be able to:


LO1 Assess Quality of Received Materials and Components

INFORMATION SHEET 1.1-1


Introduction to Electricity

We live in a world with advance technologies, the


period of information and computer age. Many
different types of inventions/innovations were made
such as smart CPs’, modern TVs’ and computers
and many other technological fields.
Many things we used are remote controlled, wireless and automated. Even a
child, as early as three-year old child, can manipulate a smart phone.
Electricity is at the very foundation of all of these. Electricity/Electronics
has made deep impact in many technological system applications. More than half
of the technology and inventions have been influence or made possible by
Electricity.
Ultimately, life as we know it is powered by electricity. As if we can no longer
do without it. It is almost as vital resources as air or water or even food.

Do we know what it is
and how it works?
So let start with the
simple question,
where did it all begin? Amber at
Here with this Ancient
lump of amber. Greece

Ancient Scientist Greeks


have long been aware that
electricity is existed.About
600 BC, the Greek Thales

AMBER RUB AGAINST FUR, IT ATTRACT PIECES


OF STRAW AND FUR.
of Miletus, describe a
strange phenomenon. He
notice that a substance they
thought on as gold, was rub
against fur, it would attract
pieces of straw and fur .

With that strange phenomenon,


they just recorded the first
reference to electrical effect
but then the Greek is more
interested with other thing or
event so they just left it that.

It was not until 1600 AD when a british scientist William Gilbert, in


developing a theory of magnetism, experimenting with amber and other
substances. Gilbert was the first to used the term “electrica”, a Latin word which
describes the static charge that develop when certain materials are rub against
amber. This is probably the source of the word “electricity”. His experiment on
amber and other substances fueled other thinker and inventor for the next 350
years. Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Luigi Galvani, Allessandro Volta, Michael
Faraday, George Simon Ohm, Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla and many other.
Electrical terms and units such as watt, volt, ohms, farad was named after them.
For the question “where did it all begin”? Comes the answer from a strange
phenomenon that happens on 600 BC. Can you remember or recall an experience
similar to that strange phenomenon? Yes, by rubbing a pen or balloon on your
hair, then it will attract pieces of paper.
FOR THE QUESTION, WHAT IS ELECTRICITY? ELECTRICITY IS A NATURALLY
OCCURRING FORCE THAT EXISTS ALL AROUND US. FROM ITS DEFINITION,
NATURALLY OCCURING FORCE, DOES IT MEAN THAT IT IS ALREADY EXISTS
SINCE THE WORLD BEGIN?
YES, IT IS. HUMANS HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THIS FORCE FOR MANY
CENTURIES.
ELECTRICITY IN NATURE, EXAMPLE
SOME 500 VARITIES OF ELECTRIC FISH HAVE BATTERIES, AFRICAN CATFISH
CAN PRODUCE 350 VOLTS. THE GIANT ELECTRIC RAY OF THE NORTH
ATLANTIC PUTS OUT 50 AMP PULSES OF 60 VOLTS. SOUTH AMERICAN
ELECTRIC EEL HAVE BEEN MEASURED AS HIGH AS 886 VOLTS.
LIGHTNING IS TOO IS A FORM OF ELECTRICITY
LIGHTNING IS TOO DANGEROUS IT HAS THOUSANDS OF VOLTS.
NOW THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY?HOW IT WORKS
AND WHERE DIT IT ALL BEGIN?
WITH A LUMP OF AN AMBER.
MAN’S EARLY EXPERIENCES TELL HIM THAT IF HE WANTS TO GET THINGS
DONE, HE MUST USE HIS
MUSCLES. HE MUST USE HIS MUSCLE TO GET FOOD THAT GAVE HIM
ENERGY. BUT COMPARED
TO ANIMALS, MAN IS WEAK. SO HE HAD TO USED AIDS AND DEVICES TO LOOK
FOR FOOD.

HE SOON DISCOVERED THAT A BOW AND ARROW GAVE HIM MORE POWER TO
HUNT FOR FOOD. MUCH LATER, MAN DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE
STORES OF ENERGY BURIED UNDERGROUND. COAL, OIL, PETROLEUM AND
NATURAL GAS COULD BE DUG FROM UNDERGROUND. MAN HARNESSED OR
UTILIZED ANIMAL POWER. WITH ANIMAL POWER AND FORCE THEY CAN HELP
MAN DO MANY THINGS. A HORSE CAN PULL A CALESA. A CARABAO CAN PLOW
THE FIELD.
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED FOR WAYS TO DO WORK EASIER, FASTER
AND BETTER. THEY MAKE USED OF ANIMALS AND RESHAPED NATURAL OBJECTS
TO MAKE THEM MORE USEFUL. THEY USED LEVERS, RAMPS, WEDGES AND
WHEELS. THESE ARE CALLED SIMPLE MACHINES.
BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, PEOPLE BUILT COMPLEX
MACHINES THAT WERE MADE FROM MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF SIMPLE
MACHINE. FOR EXAMPLE, PLOWS WERE MADE FROM LEVERS AND WEDGES,
CARTS WERE MADE FROM LEVERS, WHEELS, AND AXLES, AND
MACHINES, SUCH AS CLOCKS, GUNS, AND SPINNING WHEELS WERE MADE
FROM EVEN MORE
SIMPLE MACHINES. THESE MORE COMPLEX MACHINES WERE STILL
RELATIVELY SIMPLE AND WERE USUALLY POWERED BY MUSCLE AND BUILT
ONE AT A TIME BY ONE PERSON. THESE MACHINES WERE MEANT TO BE
USED OCCASIONALLY, NOT ALL DAY, AND NOT EVERY DAY.
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, HOWEVER, CHANGED THAT. MACHINES
BECAME MORE AND MORE COMPLEX. MILLS AND FACTORIES MADE
PRODUCTS SUCH AS CLOTH IN QUANTITIES GREATER THAN THE POPULATION
OF ONE VILLAGE COULD USE. FACTORIES AND MILLS WERE OPERATED BY
LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE AND WERE OPERATED ALL DAY, EVERY DAY
AND POWERED BY STEAM ENGINES OR WATER WHEELS, NOT MUSCLES. THIS
WAS A TRULY NEW WAY TO CHANGE, USE, AND CONTROL ENERGY.
HOWEVER, THERE WERE TWO LIMITATIONS TO THESE FORMS OF
ENERGY (WATER POWER
AND STEAM):
1. THEY COULD NOT BE EASILY TRANSPORTED—A WATERWHEEL STAYS
IN ONE PLACE
AND STEAM ENGINES ARE VERY HEAVY.
2. THEY COULD NOT BE CHANGED BACK TO THEIR ORIGINAL FORM—
THE HEAT OF A
STEAM ENGINE COULD BE CHANGED INTO ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT,
BUT COULD NOT
BE CHANGED BACK INTO HEAT.

TO OVERCOME THESE LIMITATIONS, PEOPLE LOOKED FOR A FORM OF


ENERGY THAT
COULD BE EASILY TRANSPORTED AND CHANGED. THE ANSWER WAS
ELECTRICITY.

1. ELECTRICITY CAN BE TRANSPORTED (OR TRANSMITTED) THROUGH


WIRES OVER LONG
DISTANCES.

2. ELECTRICITY CAN BE CHANGED OR TRANSFORMED INTO A


DIFFERENT KIND OF
ENERGY. THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE—OTHER TYPES OF ENERGY
CAN BE
TRANSFORMED INTO ELECTRICITY. FOR EXAMPLE, NUCLEAR POWER,
WATER POWER,
FOSSIL FUELS, WIND POWER, SOLAR POWER, AND GEOTHERMAL
POWER CAN ALL BE
TRANSFORMED INTO ELECTRICITY.

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