Introduction to Electronics (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

- Passive components: Resistance, series, parallel combinations
- Ohms law, Watts law
- Kirchhoff's laws: Voltage, Current;
- Signal sources: AC nad DC Voltage sources.
- Semiconductor Diode Characteristics
- Rectifier; Half wave, Full wave
- LED
- Bipolar junction transistor as a switch.
- Opamp

Objective

After completing the course the student:
- is able to use multimeter and oscilloscope
- can name common components used in electronics and knows their basic characteristics
- can calculate currents, voltages and resistances as well as powers in simple circuits
- knows the basics of digital and analog blocks and their couplings in electronics.

Content

- Basic concepts of Circuit analysis and measurements: current, voltage, resistance, power
- Active and passive components used in electronics
- Basics of analog and digital electronics

Materials

The learning material is published on the course's Itslearning platform, there is no need to buy any books.

Teaching methods

Lectures and homeworks on course topics. We will also use some free electronics simulators that are available in online versions. These simulators are quite light and do not require anything special from a computer, they run on a basic laptop. It is good to study the simulator and homework in parallel, because the purpose is to use the simulator to demonstrate the correctness of the calculations.

In the second part, the things covered in the lectures and the simulator are to be measured in the electronics laboratory with real components and real measuring devices. The measurements focus on measurements made with a multimeter and an oscilloscope.

Exam schedules

At the end, there is a written exam based directly on the measurements, simulations and homework done during the course.

International connections

The course is structured in such a way that there is a lecture on different topics first. Assignments related to the lecture are given as homework, which usually have about a week to do before the return date. In addition to this, the student must simulate these same homework assignments with the help of a simulator, and then the calculated and simulated results must be compared to each other. If significant differences are found, it is good to consider some kind of reasonable explanation for them.

The final step is to measure these same simulated circuits in the lab with real components and real measuring equipment.
Palaute

Completion alternatives

There is no optional method to complete the course succesfully.

Student workload

The scope of the course is 5 credits, which means approx. 135 hours of work for the average student to achieve a grade of 3.

Qualifications

High school mathematics courses (higher or subsidiary level)
OR
Primary+secondary school and vocational school maths curriculum and course: Introduction to Mathematics and Physics
OR
equivalent skills

Further information

All communication related to this course will be done on the Itslearning platform.