ABSTRACT
Students taking a lecture/laboratory sequence in photovoltaics need basic measurement skills and an understanding of the metric system (a/k/a International System of Units [SI]). Measurements found in PV vary from physical (e.g., length, area, and weight) and electrical (e.g., voltage, charge, current, power, and energy) to solar (e.g., irradiance and insolation). Students should also understand exponential notation, powers of ten, simple algebraic equations in a single unknown, and trigonometry of right triangles.
