ASSESSMENT DETAILS
A laboratory-based report of 2500 words, weighted at 100% assessing Learning Outcomes 1 and 2.
INDICATIVE CONTENT
AC source and wave form, complex number and phasors, series and parallel AC circuits, average power and power factor.
Methods of analysis for AC networks, network theorems.
Resonance, series and parallel resonant circuit.
Voltage gain, current gain power gain, decibels, simple RLC filters. Bipolar junction transistor biasing, small signal analysis.
Field effect transistor biasing and small signal analysis.
Frequency response and transfer function, general feedback theory, amplifiers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1 SOLVE A RANGE OF PROBLEMS IN ELECTRONIC PRINCIPLES CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE SOLUTION PROCEDURE AND MAKING USE OF THE UNDERLYING CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES
Enquiry
Knowledge & Understanding
2 INTERPRET QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA IN ELECTRONIC PRINCIPLES RELATING TO PRACTICAL WORK AND COMMUNICATE THE RESULTS OF THE WORK BY WRITTEN REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS, INCORPORATING STRUCTURED COHERENT ARGUMENT
Application
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Distance Learning using the Blackboard VLE. The student will engage with the Blackboard site for this module to cover the learning material which includes documents, videos, exercises, reflection, formative and summative assignments. This will occupy the independent study time.
RESOURCES
Technology laboratory for Electronics experiments
Computer Laboratory for Simulations.
Library
SPECIAL ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
This module builds on the concepts and practices learnt in the module Electronics 1. Students are required to have completed this module, or equivalent, prior to this module.
TEXTS
"Electronic Fundamentals, Circuits, Devices and Applications, T.L. Floyd & D.L Buchla, 8th Ed, Pearson,2013, ISBN 978-1-292-02568-1
¿Electrical and Electronic Technology ¿, E Hughes, J Hiley, K Brown, I McKenzie-Smith, 11 Ed, Pearson, 2012,ISBN 978-0-273-75510-4
¿Fundamentals of Electric Circuits ¿ CK Alexander & M Sadiki, 5th ed, McGraw-Hill, 2012, ISBN 978-0-073-38057-5