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TFY4185

Measurement Techniques

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

Electronic circuit elements: Passive circuits. Semiconductors. Active circuits, with amplifiers. Digital circuits.

Laboratory in circuit techniques: Construction and testing of selected circuits.

Computer laboratory: Simulation and testing of circuits with computer programs (PSpice).

Learning outcome

The course will prepare students to use and design electronic curcuits, primarily oriented towards measurements and solving measurement problems. The students will learn to build and analyze passive circuits with regard to time and frequency response by using complex calculus. The students will learn to build and analyze active electronic circuits that consist of operational amplifiers and transistors, as well as analyzing these by means of numerical tools. The students will learn how to build electronic circuits for practical purposes in the laboratory, and will acquire knowledge of analogue and digital/logical circuits, as well as the structure of microcontrollers.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and associated mandatory exercises. Mandatory laboratory exercises. Expected workload in the course is 225 hours.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

Assessment in this course includes a final exam (50%) and exercises (50%) (lab project, that may represent the compulsory bachelor project on the study program MLREAL). Both parts must be passed. The grade is given in passed/not passed.

The first calculation exercise is mandatory.

Permitted examination support material:

  • Single or Bi-lingual dictionary permitted
  • All calculators permitted
  • 1 side of an A5 sheet with printed or handwritten formulas.

The re-sit examination (in August) may be changed from written to oral. For a re-take of an examination, all assessments in the portfolio must be re-taken.

Required previous knowledge

Introductory physics and mathematics.

Course materials

Electronics, A systems approach, Neil Storey, 4th edition, Pearson Education Limited, 2009, ISBN 978-0-273-71918-2.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TFY4185 7.5 sp Autumn 2007
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Physics
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Physics