Live support chatLightning Causes, Effects, and Protection
Credit: 2 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Jayachandra N. Sakamuri, Electrical Engineer
In Lightning Causes, Effects, and Protection, you'll learn ...
- What causes lightning and thunder
- Damages caused by lightning
- Lightning protection methods
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 33 pages
As engineers, we like to know more about the natural world and natural phenomena. To that end we regularly observe and study the natural world and its laws. We all know something about natural laws that work for us, no matter how we may try to deny them. We all know that you can’t negotiate with gravity or thermodynamics. Lightning and thunder occur because the world obeys the natural laws of physics. Before Benjamin Franklin observed the electrical effects of lightning little was known of this phenomenon. At that time it was known that lightning was spectacular, and thunder was noisy. It was also known that lighting could injure or kill people and animals and damage or destroy things.
This course uses natural laws to explain some of the causes and effects of lightning and thunder. You’ll learn how lightning forms, as well as the three different types of lightning You’ll about sound pressure level measurement and where thunder falls on the sound pressure spectrum. Finally, you’ll learn about the kind of damages caused by lightning, as well as various methods to protect people and property from lightning strikes.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- What causes lightning and thunder
- Sound level measurement
- Damages caused by lightning
- Losses and protection from lightning strikes
- Positive and negative lightning
- The three kinds of lightning
- How lightning fertilizes the earth
- What fulgurites are
- Lightning protection
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 18 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 33 pages
