ENGN1218 Introduction to Electronics

First Year Course

Offered By	Dept Engineering
Academic Career	Undergraduate
Course Subject	Engineering
Offered in	Second Semester, 2009 and 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

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