Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Confidently design, construct and test analogue circuits in the laboratory.
- Select appropriate mathematical tools for the solution of problems in circuits.
- Meet this module's contribution to the subject specific intellectual learning outcomes of ELEC1029.
- Appreciate the importance of linearising systems, and the use of linear models
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Analyse ideal analogue AC circuits using complex numbers and phasors.
- Analyse transient behaviour in RC and RL circuits in the time domain.
- Understand and design circuits containing transistors and op-amps
- Understand the ideal building blocks of circuit theory and the key ideas in circuits, such as impedance, power and resonance.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse ideal analogue circuits experimentally and using simulation software.
- Meet this module's contribution to the subject specific practical learning outcomes of ELEC1029
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Record and report laboratory work.
- Meet this module's contribution to the transferable and generic learning outcomes of ELEC1029.
- Undertake laboratory experiment safely
Syllabus
- --Principles of circuit analysis:
Ideal circuit elements: resistors, inductors and capacitors, voltage and current sources
Source free and complete response of RL and RC circuits
Types of dependent source including the operational amplifier and bipolar transistors as applications of dependent sources
Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws
Mutual inductance
The superposition theorem and linearity.
- --Mesh and nodal analysis
Mesh analysis for circuits with voltage sources and resistors
Matrix notation for mesh equations
Gaussian elimination
Nodal analysis for circuits with current sources and resistors
Analysis of circuits with both current and voltage sources
Mesh and nodal analysis with dependent sources
Superposition with dependent sources
- --AC Theory
Properties of sine waves (oscillators)
Sinusoidal excitation of RL and RC circuits: phase and amplitude of 1st order lead and lag
Impedance and admittance AC analysis of RLC circuits
Resonant RLC circuits, coupled resonators
Q factor
- --Amplifier circuits
Opamps as ideal amplifiers.
Linear opamp circuits: inverting/non-inverting amplifier, adder, subtractor, voltage follower
Non-linear opamp circuits, waveform generators, Schmitt trigger, integrators & differentiators
Buffers, cascading
Introduction to frequency dependence, integrator
Introduction to BJTs as amplifiers
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, laboratories and tutorial sessions.
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 12 |
Revision | 12 |
Tutorial | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 42 |
Follow-up work | 18 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 18 |
Lecture | 36 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Dorf R C, Svoboda J A. Introduction to Electric Circuits.
Price, T. E. Analog Electronics - An Integrated PSpice Approach.
Nilsson J W, Riedel S A. Electric Circuits.
Hayt W H, Kemmerly J E. Engineering Circuit Analysis.
Senturia S D, Wedlock B.D.. Electronic Circuits and Applications.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Weekly problem sheets provide formative feedback.
Technical labs are conducted under the umbrella of ELEC1029 but the marks contribute towards this module.
Skills labs are conducted under the umbrella of the zero-credit ELEC1029 module and address its learning outcomes. The marks contribute to a number of ELEC12xx modules, including this one.
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Coursework assignment(s) | 20% |
Skills Laboratories | 10% |
Examination | 60% |
Technical Laboratories | 10% |