Course detail
Electrical Engineering and Electronics in Physical Experiment
FSI-TEF Acad. year: 2027/2028 Winter semester
The course deals with the properties of electronic circuit elements and their use in experimental practice. Attention is paid to measuring instruments, generators, filters, operational amplifiers, signal processing, and fundamentals of logic circuits. Practical applications support lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Fundamental electric and magnetic quantities (electric charge, voltage, current, electromagnetic field vectors).
Fundamentals of electromagnetism (Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, Coulomb's law, Biot-Savart's law, Faraday's law, Ampere's law).
Electrical and magnetic properties of matter.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The course is evaluated based on the protocols and the final test.
Attendance is checked at the beginning of laboratory lessons. Missed laboratory lessons can be replaced (In excused cases): during the semester with another group or at the end of the semester as an individual assignment.
Aims
The course enables students to build on knowledge from earlier studies and expand these with practical skills.
Students will learn the basics of modern electrical engineering and electronics necessary for mastering future technical practice. Students whose primary focus is physical and technical will gain a basic understanding of electronics, measurement principles and methods, and measuring instruments. The main focus is on the laboratory practice.
Study aids
Author's lecture presentations and supplementary materials for lectures and laboratory sessions
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
13 hours, optionally
Syllabus
- Electrical quantities and their relationships, electronic components, circuits
- Electronic devices – Power supplies, oscilloscopes, function generators
- Capacitance and inductance, alternating voltage, derivative and integration elements, filters
- Software tools in electrical engineering – circuit simulation, PCB design
- Semiconductor components – diodes, transistors, integrated circuits
- Amplifiers and their properties, the basic connection of an operational amplifier
- Addition, difference, integration, derivative and transimpedance connection of operational amplifiers, active filters, typical uses
- Measurement of non-electric quantities, measurement errors, sensors
- Spectral analysis of signals, digitization of signals, properties of A/D and D/A converters
- Regulation and automation – continuous and discontinuous regulation, basic types of regulators, and their use in industrial and laboratory practice
- Origin and effect of interference and noise, types of noise, filtering of signals, lock-in detection
- Logic gates, combinational and sequential logic circuits
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
- Safety in laboratories, multimeter, resistance divider, solderless breadboard.
- Laboratory power supplies, function generators, oscilloscopes. Measurement of IV characteristics.
- Measurement of capacitor charging. Measurement of frequency characteristics of filters.
- Simulation of electronic circuits.
- Puny single diode and full bridge rectifier, integrated voltage stabilizer, switching mode power supply.
- Measurement of the characteristics of the inverting op amp circuit.
- Relaxation oscillator and active filter based on operational amplifier.
- Measurement of small signals using an operational amplifier.
- Signal digitization, temperature to frequency conversion.
- Connecting and observing the response of the analog PI controller.
- Demonstration of the use of a lock-in amplifier for detecting weak signals.
- Logic circuits – examples and simulation of flip-flops, SPI communication and use of a logic analyzer.