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Electronics

Electronics

Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.

Course Description

Adoption of methods of linear circuit analysis with DC and AC sources. Introduction of electronic device characteristics and basic analogue electronic circuit properties. Adoption of methods of analogue electronic circuit analysis.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence - course
(3. semester)
Group of Courses Armour, Field Artillery, Engineers and Technical Support - course
(3. semester)
Group of Courses Signals, Monitoring and Guidance and Air Defence - course
(3. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze of linear circuits in time and frequency domain
  2. Analyze of basic properties of electron devices
  3. Analyze of nonlinear circuits
  4. Analyze of basic amplifier circuits
  5. Compare the performance of amplifiers with different devices
  6. Apply operational amplifier in linear and nonlinear circuits

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Oral lectures with problem solving

Exercises

Exercises with problem solving

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: DC circuits - current, charge, voltage, power, energy. Circuit elements. Ohm Exercises: Solving the problems of linear circuits with multiple sources and resistances.
  2. Lectures: DC circuits analysis – nodal and mesh analysis, superposition. Voltage and current sources. Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorem. Exercises: Analysis of linear circuits using the method of node voltages and loop currents.
  3. Lectures: Capacitors and inductors in electric circuits - series and parallel capacitors and inductors. Transient response of RC and RL circuits. Exercises: Transient response calculation of RC and LR circuits.
  4. Lectures: AC circuits – sinusoids, average and effective values. AC circuits analysis – phasors. Exercises: Frequency analysis of linear circuits.
  5. Lectures: Role of electronics. Types of signals electronics. Amplifiers – gains, power supply, nonlinear characteristics of real amplifier. Types of amplifiers. Amplifier frequency characteristics. Amplifier transient response. Exercises: Calculation of amplifiers efficiency and amplifier gain with finite loads.
  6. Lectures: Diodes - basic properties, current-voltage characteristics, temperature effects, dynamic parameters and small-signal model. Nonlinear circuit analysis. Small and large signal operation. Exercises: Diode circuit analysis using the superposition.
  7. Lectures: Diodes in power supplies – diodes rectifiers and regulators. Exercises: Calculation of basic rectifier parameters.
  8. Lectures: Unipolar transistors – basic properties, current-voltage characteristics, temperature effects, dynamic parameters and small-signal model. Exercises: Parameters calculation of small signal unipolar transistor model.
  9. Lectures: Biasing of unipolar transistor amplifiers. Common-source amplifier. Exercises: Calculation of unipolar transistor amplifier operating point and analysis of common-source amplifier.
  10. Lectures: Common-gate and common-drain amplifier. Properties and comparison of unipolar transistor amplifiers. Exercises: Analysis of common-gate and common-drain amplifiers
  11. Lectures: Bipolar transistors – basic properties, current-voltage characteristics, temperature effects, dynamic parameters and small-signal model. Exercises: Parameters calculation of small signal bipolar transistor model.
  12. Lectures: Biasing of bipolar transistor amplifiers. Common-emitter amplifier. Exercises: Calculation of bipolar transistor amplifier operating point and analysis of common-source amplifier.
  13. Lectures: Common-base and common-collector amplifier. Properties and comparison of bipolar transistor amplifiers. Exercises: Analysis of common-base and common-collector amplifiers
  14. Lectures: Ideal operational amplifier (Op-Amp). Properties of real Op-Amps. Op-Amp amplifiers. Op-Ams in analogue computations. Exercises: Analysis of Op-Amp amplifiers.
  15. Lectures: Op-amp comparator. Op-Amp astable and monostable multivibrator. Op-Amp square and triangular waveform generators. Exercises: Calculation of Op-Amp astable and monostable multivibrator parameters.

Literature

Ž. Butković, J. Divković-Pukšec, A. Barić (2014.), Elektronika 1, Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva, Zagreb - interna skripta
Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth Carless Smith (2004.), Microelectronic Circuits, Oxford University Press
Richard C. Jaeger, Travis N. Blalock (2011.), Microelectronic Circuit Design,
Charles Alexander, Matthew Sadiku (2012.), Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

For students

General

ID 282171
  Winter semester
6.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
45 Lectures
30 Exercises