Live support chatArtificial Lighting Types and Applications
Credit: 3 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Jayachandra N. Sakamuri, Electrical Engineer
In Artificial Lighting Types and Applications, you'll learn ...
- A history of artificial lighting methods
- What is a lumen, the unit of measurement of light intensity?
- How the human eye perceives light
- Various types of artificial lighting types and their applications and relative merits
Overview
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Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 46 pages
At first glance, artificial lighting may seem like a straightforward and simple topic. The exact opposite is true. There are many ways that society generates and uses lighting sources. In addition, there is a real problem quantifying a subjective physical quantity such as light. How can the true brightness of a light source be determined objectively? The starting point is, naturally, the human eye. But, whose eye should be used, as each one perceives light slightly differently?
Let’s say the source of light being quantified is a burning candle. Just how bright is a burning candle? And which candle should be used? Using two items, the human eye and a burning candle, both of which have countless variances, to determine light intensity may seem like a very subjective method to quantify what should be an objective result. Fortunately, modern measurement methods have helped make light measurement more sensible.
This course will provide an overview of artificial lighting types and applications, as well as the history which brought it to its current state.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Principle and use of natural gas lighting
- Incandescent lights and halogen lights from heated filaments
- Fluorescent lights and Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs)
- Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting sources, and how they have changed the industry
- Arc lighting sources and when and where they were used
- Mercury Vapor Lighting
- Low-Pressure Sodium (LPS) and High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) light sources
- Electroluminescence as a light source
- Gas Discharge Sulfur Lamps
- Efficiency of various light sources is given
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 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: 3 PDH
Length: 46 pages
