ESEM11

SEMINARS/COLLOQUIA

Rovic C. Aventurado, BSEE-4A

AC FUNDAMENTALS

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Dealing with this year with especially for us students is a great challenge. One of these is the

learning gap that we carry due to pandemic. Last October 11, 2022, is a great day for us as we fill

those learning gaps will the aid of Engr, Hanapon which is the speaker for the seminar. In the two

hours span, we learned and recall the AC Fundamentals. We got the clear understanding on how

the alternating current is generated, its properties, and the fundamentals. There are also problem

formulas that were introduced which we still use in our current subjects. The alternating current

quantities that refer to as the resistance, inductive resistance, capacitance reactance, and the

admittance and impedance. The ICE and ELI are to know the which is leading or lagging. We

slightly tackled the balanced three-phase system and delta connection.

Though it is strange for us fourth years to listen the lessons that should’ve learned in our

sophomore years. Still for the discussion to be clearer Engr. Hanapon discussed from the basic

principle. He delivered the detailed information of the in-phase and the lagging and leading factors

which occurs in between the voltage and current. As a teacher himself, in every principle

introduced comes a sample problem and a detailed solution and discussion. Those problem solving

gave us the idea where those theories and principle are being applied to an actual problem. In the

entirety of the discussion. We solved the different problems using the formulas of resistance,

inductance, and capacitance, There different formulas depending on the given problem. That

approach helped us to digest not all but most of the lessons in that seminar. Sadly, due to lack of

time, we couldn’t finish the entire topic.

 In conclusion, though the time given in the seminar was too short, I still manage to get lots

of information. From the basic principle going to more specific applications, I manage to gain

knowledge from listening and solving the problems in the following slides of the presentation. The

entirety of the seminar focuses on the AC fundamentals that is undeniably one of the gaps that us

students must know and master.