Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to acquire a basic knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of electronics.
Synopsis Electrical components in circuits; resistors, capacitors and inductors. Voltage and current sources. Fundamental laws such as Kirchoff's and Ohm's. Nodal and mesh circuit analysis methods. Thevenin's theorem. Transient and steady state response of first-order circuits. AC theory, phasors, impedance and admittance. Steady-state response of AC circuits. Semiconductor devices: diodes, transistors. Amplifier principles. Concepts of feedforward, feedback, stability and oscillations. Binary number system and fundamentals of digital logic circuits.
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 70% + Assignments and tests: 30%