CP 275 - Fluid Power

Credit Hours: 3

Fluid power is an applied science dealing with ways of using pressurized gas or liquid for doing work.

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

identify the symbology used in industrial hydraulics and pneumatics;
compute area, force, energy and power in systems;
sketch and identify the components in a basic hydraulic system;
perform system calculations;
classify pumps;
configure valving;
identify cylinder applications;
distinguish between receivers and power packs; and
identify and size accumulators.

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