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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: EEE1021 Module Title: ELECTRONICS I
Module Provider: Electronic Engineering Short Name: EEE1.EL1
Level: HE1 Module Co-ordinator: HENLEY SJ Dr (Elec Eng)
Number of credits: 20 Number of ECTS credits: 10
 
Module Availability
Autumn and Spring Semesters
Assessment Pattern
Unit(s) of Assessment
Weighting Towards Module Mark(%)
Tutorial Peer Assessment Scheme
10%
Examination
90%
Module Overview

The module offers an introduction to circuit theory and analogue electronics. No previous knowledge of electronics is required.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None
Module Aims

The aim of this module is to introduce the fundamentals of circuit analysis, analogue electronics, transistors and amplifiers. The module will enable students from diverse A-level and non A-level backgrounds to reach a common level of knowledge and understanding.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the module students should be able to: 

 

·        Apply Ohm’s law and Kirchoff’s current and voltage laws to simple circuits.

 

·        Describe fundamental concepts linking simple circuit elements together.

 

·        Apply the basic analytical techniques to AC and DC circuits.

 

·        Discuss the concepts of input impedance and output impedance.

 

·        Apply analytical techniques to circuits involving combinations of circuit elements.

 

·        Analyse the operation of simple power supply circuits, and specify components for a given performance.

 

·        Apply the definitions of complex impedance to previously learned analytical techniques.

 

  • Use a range of techniques to produce Bode plots and understand them.

     

  • Design and analyse simple transistors amplifiers and op-amp amplifiers.

     

  • Design and analyse simple waveshaping circuits based around both active and passive circuit components.
  • Analyse resonant RLC circuits as well as simple RL and RC circuits.
Module Content

Semester 1

 

Part A Circuit Theory (SH)

 

DC circuits – Current and voltage definitions, resistive elements, Kirchoff’s laws & Ohm’s law. Network reduction, analysis techniques, theorems and max. power transfer.

 

 [5 lectures]

 

AC circuits I - Energy storage elements, capacitance & inductance, physical understanding. AC circuit elements.  Energy storage. Alternating current, simple ac steady-state sinusoidal analysis.

 

[5 lectures]

 

Part B Analogue Electronics (GTR)

 

 

Fundamentals

 

Resistive networks (series & parallel), voltage & current sources, Thevenin & Norton equivalent circuits, current and voltage division, input resistance, output resistance, coupling capacitors and decoupling capacitors, current limiting and over voltage protection, analogue vs digital, noise.

 

[4 lectures]

 

 

Components & active devices – Components vs elements & circuit modelling. Introduction to sensors & acuators, self-generating vs modulating type sensors, simple circuit interfacing.

 

[2 lectures]

 

 

Diodes and Diode circuits – Diode characteristics and equations, ideal vs real. Signal conditioning, clamping and clipping, rectification and peak detection, Photodiodes, LEDs, zener diodes, voltage stabilisation, voltage reference, power supplies.

 

[4 lectures]

 

Semester 2

 

Part A Circuit Theory (SH)

 

 

AC Circuits II - Power dissipation & RMS, phasor diagrams. Introduction to complex number representation. Definition of complex impedance and use with complex numbers. AC circuit analysis with complex numbers: introduction to mesh and nodal analysis.

 

[5 lectures]

 

 

RL, RC and RLC circuits - Time response (natural & step responses). Frequency response RLC circuits, resonance & Q-factor. Use of differential equations and their solutions. Simple filter and band-pass circuits. Introduction to second order circuit. Use of Bode plots.

 

[5 Lectures]

 

Part B Analogue Electronics (GTR)

 

 

Amplifier concepts – Sources & loads, equivalent circuits, filtering & bandwidth, differential mode. Introduction to operational amplifiers, ideal vs real, simple amplifier configurations: Inverting and non inverting configurations, transimpedance amplifier, virtual earth and summing amplifiers, Schmidt trigger. Bode Plots of simple circuits.

 

[5 lectures]

 

 

Transistors –Introduction to transistors (FETs & Bipolars). FET principles & types, MOSFET characteristics and simple amplifier circuits. MOSFET small signal equivalent circuit and dc biasing.

 

[3 lectures]

 

 

Amplifier Circuits – Examples of ac and dc amplifiers based on op-amps, clamping and waveshaping, rectifiers, and oscillators.

 

[2 lectures]

Methods of Teaching/Learning

Lectures, tutorial problems, group working, peer and self marking, formative test and feedback

Selected Texts/Journals
R F Coughlin and F F Driscoll, “Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits”, Prentice Hall
N Storey, “Electronics: A systems approach”, Prentice Hall

J W Nilsson, “Electric Circuits”, Addison Wesley

Last Updated

12th August 2010