Lesson Plan: Current Rectification Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to relate the output of a current-rectification circuit to the design of the circuit.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify how a time-varying current will change when it is half-rectified or fully rectified,
- identify and draw on a graph the time-varying current that will be produced from a circuit that contains one or more diodes, given the input time-varying current,
- identify and draw the circuit diagram for a bridge circuit consisting of four diodes.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the action of diodes within a circuit,
- the alternating current.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- mechanical current rectification or any form of current rectification not based on diodes,
- the production of alternating current from direct current.
