Overview
In this unit, you will learn how to apply fundamental laws of physics related to energy and electricity using authentic engineering problems. You will be introduced to the concepts of heat, energy, work, energy conversion and laws of thermodynamics. You will apply energy principles of rotational motion, simple harmonic motion and oscillations. You will learn the concepts of voltage and current and use Kirchhoff’s laws to analyse simple direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) electrical circuits. You will also learn the operation of electrical machines such as motors and generators and how to select a machine for a given application. Throughout this unit you will be using experimental and measurement techniques to investigate relevant physical phenomena and learn how they can be used in practice to solve engineering problems. This unit will also provide you with opportunities to develop communication skills through collaborative team work and opportunities to create professional documentation through laboratory reports. Mixed mode students are required to attend the compulsory Residential School.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Unit evaluation
Students have appreciated independent self learning, online quizzes, laboratories, laboratory videos, laboratory guides in this unit and great delivery of the teaching team.
The good practices will be continued.
Feedback from Unit evaluation
Some tutorial questions need to be revised, it is better the tutorial questions focus on practicing the lecture materials rather than focusing on covering extra information, e.g., converting imperial units to international standard units.
The tutorial questions will be revised to fit more with the content of the lecture materials.
Feedback from Unit evaluation and teaching team
The lab guides and reports need improvement. The measurement error discussion and heat loss calculation is not clear enough to students.
The lab documents will be revised in order to be more understandable and more clear to students.
Feedback from Unit evaluation
Students have appreciated the physical workings in the lectures to deliver the contents of the unit more efficiently rather than just using slides.
The good practice will be continued.
Feedback from Teaching team
Hard copy of the textbook wasn't available for Term 2, 2018. The hard copy price is also not reasonable for Term 2, 2019.
As the text book is a custom title further discussion by the bookshop team with the publisher is recommended. It is recommended to consider other ways of providing students with the material they require through library subscriptions.
Feedback from Teaching team
Broad pass rate low at 60%.
It is recommended that the final exam workload for students of this unit is reduced by introducing a midterm exam. To reduce the workload, the unit content being covered in the midterm exam will not be included in the final exam.
- Solve well defined engineering problems in work, energy and heat transfer
- Apply physical and circuit laws to find electric fields, electric potentials and currents in Direct Current (DC) circuits
- Calculate simple capacitor and inductor dimensions and transient behaviour of Resistor-Capacitor (RC) and Resistor-Inductor (RL) circuits
- Analyse simple Alternating Current (AC) circuits
- Solve problems related to rotational motion, and electrical machines
- Conduct scientific experiments to investigate physical phenomena using safe work practices
- Work individually and collaboratively in a team to produce professional laboratory documentation including error analyses.
Learning outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and also discipline capabilities. You can find the mapping for this on the Engineering Undergraduate Course website.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - In-class Test(s) - 25% | |||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 12% | |||||||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | |||||||
| 4 - Practical and Written Assessment - 13% | |||||||
| 5 - Examination - 40% | |||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - In-class Test(s) - 25% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 12% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Practical and Written Assessment - 13% | ||||||||||
| 5 - Examination - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Fundamentals of Energy and Electricity
1st Edition (2016)
Authors: R. Knight
Pearson Education Australia
ISBN: 9781488616006
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
This is a custom design eBook especially for this unit. This textbook include material from the following 3 Physics text books: "College Physics: A Strategic Approach" by Knight, Jones and Field, "Physics: Principles with Applications", by Giancoli, and "Principals and Practices of Physics" by Mazur. This book is only available in eBook format and you need to purchase this directly through Pearson Education online. More information about purchasing the book will be available in the unit Moodle site.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.desilva@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Work, Energy and Power
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 10 & 11
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Introduction to Thermodynamics
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 11
Part 2 - Chapter 13, 14 & 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 1 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Thermal Properties of Matter
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 11
Part 2 - Chapter 13, 14 & 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 1 Due Week 3 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Electric Charges and Fields
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 20 & 21
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 2 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Electric Currents and DC Circuits
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 22 & 23
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 2 Due Week 5 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Capacitors and RC circuits
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 21 & 23
Events and Submissions/Topic
29th to 31st August : Residential School in Rockhampton
In-Class test Due Week 6
Module/Topic
Magnetism and Inductors
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 24
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 3 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Fundamentals of Alternating Current Circuits
Chapter
Part 3 - Chapter 32
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 3 Due Week 8 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Laboratory Activities and Report I Due: Week 8 Friday (13 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Alternating Current Circuits Analysis
Chapter
Part 3 - Chapter 32
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 4 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Rotational Motion
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 4 Due Week 10 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Electrical Machines
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 24 & 25
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 5 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Laboratory Activities and Report II Due: Week 11 Friday (4 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Exam Revision
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Online Quiz 5 Due Week 12 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
The assessment is accessible via the unit Moodle site and comprises of a set of online multiple choice questions on the topics covered each week. These progressive tests are an important activity to check and enhance your comprehension. The progressive tests are an integrated part of the study to test on the key aspects of each topic. Accurately completing the Progressive tests are vital for proper preparation for In-class test and end of term examination.
Each online progressive test quiz weights (2%) of your final mark (10% in total). Each progressive test will be available up to 1 week after the relevant fortnight to allow some study flexibility. For example progressive test on topics covered in Week 1 and 2 will close at the end of Week 3. Each attempt will include questions randomly selected from a set of related problems. Correct answers will be available immediately after you complete the test. If you encounter any network access during tests, contact the unit coordinator at your earliest convenience. Further detials of the assessment will be available on the unit Moodle site at the begining of the term.
- Each progressive test has set time to complete and once a student start a test, it will close after the set time.
- Once started, a test cannot be paused in the middle. Students are strongly advised to sufficiently cover the material related to each test before starting the test.
- You can attempt each test 2 times, within the given time frame as specified in the schedule.
- Final mark will be the highest of all the attempts
5
Other
Progressive Test 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 due on Week 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12 on Sunday at 11.45 pm AEST respectively.
Results are available immediately after the completion of each progressive test
No Assessment Criteria
- Solve well defined engineering problems in work, energy and heat transfer
- Apply physical and circuit laws to find electric fields, electric potentials and currents in Direct Current (DC) circuits
- Calculate simple capacitor and inductor dimensions and transient behaviour of Resistor-Capacitor (RC) and Resistor-Inductor (RL) circuits
- Analyse simple Alternating Current (AC) circuits
- Solve problems related to rotational motion, and electrical machines
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
2 In-class Test(s)
This assessment covers weekly topics from Week 1 to Week 5. Students are required to answer analytical and numerical questions to demonstrate their theoretical knowledge and analytical and problem solving skills.
Online students will sit this test during Residential School and on-campus students will sit for this test in their respective campuses.
In Week 6. Suggested date and time will be notified and confirmed via the unit Moodle site.
We strive to release the assessment marks in 2 weeks after due date.
In-class test will be graded using the following criteria:
- Correct answers
- All working must be shown
- Answers must be neat, tidy and legible
- Correct format
- Application of correct methods and procedures
- Discussion of answers
- All questions must be attempted
- Each question in the test will be assessed separately.
- Need to score more than 25% to PASS
- Solve well defined engineering problems in work, energy and heat transfer
- Apply physical and circuit laws to find electric fields, electric potentials and currents in Direct Current (DC) circuits
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
3 Practical and Written Assessment
This assessment item covers topics from 1 to 5
Laboratory sessions will be held at various times, as directed by the unit Moodle site, through the term or in case of online students at the residential school. All the information regarding the laboratories will be provided to the students via the unit Moodle site.
Laboratory attendance is compulsory and all students must pass the laboratory exercise assessment in order to pass the unit. Laboratory reports of students who did not attend the laboratory sessions will not be accepted for marking and will be awarded zero marks.
Details of the laboratory exercises will be posted on the unit website at the start of the term.
Students will be working in teams during the laboratory sessions.
Week 8 Friday (13 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (27 Sept 2019)
We strive to return assessments within 2 weeks after due date
Laboratory exercises will be graded using the following criteria:
- Correct answers
- Correct format
- Correct description of laboratory procedures
- Discussion of laboratory results
- All working must be shown
- Proper use of references
- Report must be neat, tidy and legible
- All laboratory exercises must be attempted
- Combined laboratory part I and II marks need to be more than 50% to PASS
- Conduct scientific experiments to investigate physical phenomena using safe work practices
- Work individually and collaboratively in a team to produce professional laboratory documentation including error analyses.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
4 Practical and Written Assessment
This assessment item covers topics from 6 to 11.
Laboratory sessions will be held at various times, as directed by the unit Moodle site, through the term or in case of online students at the residential school. All the information regarding the laboratories will be provided to the students via the unit Moodle site.
Laboratory attendance is compulsory and all students must pass the laboratory exercise assessment in order to pass the unit. Laboratory reports of students who did not attend the laboratory sessions will not be accepted for marking and will be awarded zero marks.
Details of the laboratory exercises will be posted on the unit website at the start of the term.
Students will be working in teams during the laboratory sessions.
Week 11 Friday (4 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (25 Oct 2019)
We strive to return assessments within 2 weeks after due date
Laboratory exercises will be graded using the following criteria:
- Correct answers
- Correct format
- Correct description of laboratory procedures
- Discussion of laboratory results
- All working must be shown
- Proper use of references
- Report must be neat, tidy and legible
- All laboratory exercises must be attempted
- Combined laboratory part I and II marks need to be more than 50% to Pass
- Conduct scientific experiments to investigate physical phenomena using safe work practices
- Work individually and collaboratively in a team to produce professional laboratory documentation including error analyses.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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