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 teamwork and opportunities to create professional documentation through laboratory reports. In this unit, you must complete compulsory practical activities. Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for proposed dates.
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).
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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).
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 Student Evaluation
Students appreciated sending assessment deadline reminders and providing sample exam papers & solutions.
Continue the same practice.
Feedback from Student Evaluation
Students found Mid-term exams reduced the workload to a manageable level at the end of term.
Continue the same practice.
Feedback from Student Evaluation
Students felt comfortable and easy to communicate with teaching staff.
Maintain the same practice.
Feedback from Student Evaluation
Some students reported too much content taught within this unit.
This unit is under review and during this process content will be revamped.
- 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.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Introductory
Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping information
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Online Test - 25% | |||||||
2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | |||||||
3 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | |||||||
4 - Take Home Exam - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Online Test - 25% | ||||||||||
2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
3 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||||||
4 - Take Home Exam - 40% |
Textbooks
Fundamentals of Energy and Electricity
1st edition (2016)
Authors: R. Knight
Pearson Education Limited
ISBN: 9781488616006
Binding: eBook
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.
n.das@cqu.edu.au
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
- Progressive 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
- Progressive Quiz 1 due Week 3 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 1 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Electric Charges and Fields
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 20 & 21
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Laboratory Quiz 1 due Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 2 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Electric Currents and DC Circuits
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 22 & 23
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 2 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 2 due Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Capacitors and RC circuits
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 21 & 23
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Online test - Due: Week 6
- Progressive Quiz 2 due Week 6 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 3 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Magnetism and Inductors
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 24
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 3 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 3 due Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Part 3 - Chapter 32
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 3 due Week 8 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
- Laboratory Quiz 4 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Alternating Current Circuits Analysis
Chapter
Part 3 - Chapter 32
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 4 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST.
- Virtual Residential School from 8:00 to 18:00 hours on Monday.
- Laboratory Quiz 4 due Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Rotational Motion
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 4 due Week 10 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Electrical Machines
Chapter
Part 1 - Chapter 24 & 25
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 5 opens Monday 6:00 am AEST
Laboratory Activities, and Laboratory Report Due: Week 11 Friday (4 Feb 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Exam Revision
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Progressive Quiz 5 due Week 12 Sunday 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Take-Home Examination
Take Home Examination Due: Exam Week Thursday (17 Feb 2022) 10:00 am AEST
1 Online Quiz(zes)
- The assessment comprises a set of online multiple-choice questions on the topics covered each week.
- Each online progressive quiz weighs (2%) of your final mark (10% in total).
- Each progressive quiz will be available up to 1 week after the relevant fortnight to allow some study flexibility. For example, a progressive quiz 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 quiz.
- Each progressive quiz has a set time to complete, and once a student starts a quiz, it will close after the set time.
- Once started, a quiz cannot be paused in the middle. Students are strongly advised to sufficiently cover the material related to each quiz.
- You can attempt each quiz 2 times within the given time frame as specified in the schedule. The final mark will be the highest of all the attempts.
- Further details of the assessment will be available on the unit Moodle site.
5
Other
Suggested date and time will be notified and confirmed via the unit Moodle site.
Results are available immediately after the completion of each progressive quiz.
- You get the full mark for a correct answer and no mark for an incorrect answer.
- No partial marks are available.
- All questions must be attempted.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- 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
2 Online Test
- The assessment comprises a set of online multiple-choice questions on the topics covered 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.
- This test weighs 25% of your final mark.
- This test will be available for a limited time in Week 6, and students need to attend this online test in real-time. (For example, this exam will be available ONLY on Week 6 Monday from 8 AM to 10 AM).
- Further specific details (including day and time) of the test will be available on the unit Moodle site.
- The test will include questions randomly selected from a set of related problems from a question bank.
- The test has a set start-time and end-time. It will close after the set end-time.
- Students are strongly advised to sufficiently cover the material related to the test before the test.
The test will be conducted in week 6. Suggested date and time will be notified and confirmed via the unit Moodle site.
Feedback will be given through unit website in Moodle in two weeks after the test.
- All questions must be attempted and each question in the test will be assessed separately.
- You get the full mark for a correct answer and no mark for an incorrect answer.
- No partial marks are available.
- Need to score more than 25% to PASS this assessment.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- 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
3 Practical and Written Assessment
- This assessment item covers topics from weeks 1 to 9.
- All laboratory exercises must be attempted.
- All students need to attend compulsory virtual residential school and all the laboratory exercises must be familiarized. This includes watching videos and writing a team report using data provided by the unit coordinator.
- Students will be working in teams allocated by the unit coordinator during the laboratory sessions.
- Students need to submit one report per team based on the completed laboratory exercises by the due date.
- Each student needs to complete four online laboratory quizzes before due date and marks will be given for completing the quizzes correctly. This is an individual assessment.
- Students need to score equal or more than 50% for this assessment to PASS this unit.
- Further information regarding the laboratories will be provided to the students via the unit Moodle site.
Week 11 Friday (4 Feb 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit one PDF file through the unit Moodle website.
Exam Week Friday (18 Feb 2022)
- Marks scored from completing online quizzes, completing and submitting the team laboratory report will be used to calculate individual marks for this assessment.
- Laboratory reports of online students who did not attend the virtual residential school will not be accepted for marking and will be awarded zero marks.
- Follow proper formatting and structuring of reports.
- Have neat, legible, and tidy work and presentation in the laboratory work.
- Provide correct workings, answers, and solutions.
- Present an accurate description of laboratory procedures.
- Where appropriate, show the calculated values based on theory and compare them against the measured values.
- Provide an appropriate discussion of laboratory results.
- Refer to the resources appropriately.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
- 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.
4 Take Home Exam
- This exam is an individual assessment accessible via the unit Moodle site and comprises a set of questions on the topics covered from Week 6 to Week 12.
- Students are required to answer analytical and numerical questions to demonstrate their theoretical knowledge and analytical and problem-solving skills.
- This take-home exam weighs 40% of your final mark.
- This exam will be available for a limited time during the exam week and students need to attend this examination during that time.
- The take-home exam has a set start time, and the answer/workings submission link will be closed after the end time.
- All questions must be attempted.
- Students need to include all steps of workings and final answers.
- Students should scan the workings and answers into a PDF file and upload it.
- Students should submit their scanned detailed solutions and workings within the allowed time period through the unit Moodle site.
- Students are strongly advised to cover the material related to the exam sufficiently before the exam.
- Further specific details related to this assessment will be published on the unit Moodle site.
Exam Week Thursday (17 Feb 2022) 10:00 am AEST
The examination date and time above are tentative.
- Correct workings, answers, and solutions.
- Appropriate discussion of results.
- On-time submission.
- Proper formatting and structuring.
- Have neat, legible, and tidy work and presentation.
- A correct description of procedures.
- Proper use of references.
- All questions must be attempted.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- 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
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
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