ANU - STUDYAT - Introduction to Electronics

Offered By:

Dept Engineering

Academic Career:

Undergraduate

Course Subject:

Engineering

Offered in:

Second Semester, 2010

Unit Value:

6 units

Course Description:

This course introduces the students to the fundamentals of electrical and electronic engineering. It provides the students with an understanding of basic electrical quantities, circuit elements and circuit analysis techniques. It also provides an understanding of the principles and operation of diodes and operational amplifiers. Specific topics include:

Fundamental electrical quantities (charge, current, voltage) and circuit elements (resistor, capacitor, inductor, voltage and current sources)

Circuit Analysis Techniques: Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, Mesh current and Node voltage analysis, Thevenin and Norton Equivalent circuits, Superposition, Maximum power transfer, Wheatstone bridge

First-order RC and RL Circuits with DC inputs: Time constant, Transient and steady state responses.

Diodes: Basic diode concepts and diode circuit modes, applications (rectifier and wave shaping circuits), Zener diodes.

Introduction to Operational Amplifiers: Ideal op-amp, Basic Op-amp configurations, Summing point constraint.

Indicative Assessment:

Problem Sets (10%); Hardware laboratories (30%); Mid-semester Exam (20%); Final Exam (50%)

Areas of Interest:

Engineering

Requisite Statement:

PHYS1101 or PHYS1001

Incompatibility:

ENGN1221

Recommended Courses:

None

Preliminary Reading:

None

Introduction to Electronics ENGN1218 - Details